A billion citizens and 800 million sim cards in circulation. With 50% of the population connected to the Internet via the mobile network - also used for payments and money transfers - and the prospect...
Events - panel discussions
Day after day reporters have told of how the crisis has unfolded in Ukraine: from the Maidan protests, which led to the ouster of President Yanukovych, to the annexation of Crimea by Russia. A task th...
Amateur footage: the increasing reliance on user generated content in news output
News outlets are using more and more footage filmed by eyewitnesses at breaking news events. With the proliferation of mobile phones with high quality cameras and easy access to the social web, citize...
Wars, civil wars and revolutions tend to create multiple truths rather than any one easily-agreeable truth. And the civil war in Syria, now raging since March 2011 (over 100,000 dead and 4 million ref...
With the emergence of a widespread surveillance system in the NSA files, the Edward Snowden case has deeply affected journalism, both in terms of the role played by the media and of the practices adop...
Network, information, communication and technology; words of a world increasingly populated by women. This panel is inspired by the speech by Megan Smith, Google's vice president, at the Women 2.0 co...
If newspapers are "zombies", journalism wants to survive and prosper. Economic sustainability is the philosopher's stone that everyone is still searching for, starting from one certainty; in a digital...
To what extent has the Sicilian mafia infiltrated the German economy? An ambitious project, possibly the first extensive German research into the matter, has with an innovative format unveiled how Ger...
New journalistic ventures such as HomicideWatch, PolitiFact, and the ConnectedChina project by Reuters have moved beyond the traditional inverted pyramid news story and have started new journalistic f...
Since the return of Vladimir Putin to Kremlin in 2012 Russia’s media have been confronted with the heavy pressure from the authorities. Life has become much harder for the few independent media outl...