In a rapidly changing world, marked by a major employment crisis, what are the most important skills to give journalism students? How to equip them for the present and an evolving future?
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In June 2013, NSA contractor Edward Snowden met with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen Macaskill and film-maker Laura Poitras in Hong Kong. The whistleblower gave them documents which proved t...
What entices a seasoned journalist to leave a high-profile mainstream media job for a new digital adventure? For example Miguel Mora, who left the leading Spanish daily El Pais to set up with others...
First presentation in Italy of the latest novel by Etgar Keret, entitled in Italian Sette anni di felicità, due to be published in April 2015. In conversation with Massimo Cirri. If a rocket ca...
Superdesk is a new story-driven platform for newsrooms that handles news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing end-to-end. More (and different) than a CMS, Superdesk is open so...
Introduction to the essentials of how websites are built, followed by a hands-on training on scraping them with simple tools like import.io. Level: beginner/intermediate. Organised in association w...
Manning and the others: traitors, spies or heroes? Media reporting and whistleblowing
May 2015 will mark the fifth anniversary of Chelsea Manning’s arrest. Manning is the US soldier who became the source of some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks published in 2010. Thanks to Manning’...
Join Kickstarter's Journalism Outreach Lead Nicole He for a primer on how to launch your journalism project. Whether you're a writer, a publisher, or you're creating something altogether new, we can...
Younger audiences are discovering and consuming news with very different habits than older generations. This panel will explore how content is being packaged differently to reach these audiences t...
At the end of 2013, Peter Grestle, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of Al Jazeera were arrested in Egypt on charges of spreading false information and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, the politica...