What are the fine lines between advocacy and journalism? Is WikiLeaks really an enrichment or is it propaganda? Is crowdfunding fostering independent journalism or is it giving the rich people an ad...
Events - panel discussions
Between civic and data journalism: how to work on a crowdsourced journalistic investigation
Here’s your menu: data-driven reporting, crowdmapping, social media, online petitions, whistleblowing platforms. Choose one, some or all of them. How best to involve citizens (and indeed other jou...
The session will consider new approaches to storytelling in the digital age, including innovative technologies and methods being used to source stories and new formats being used to visualize the st...
Making secondary trauma a primary issue: understanding the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms. A growing number of journalists who regularly handle images and videos sourced from the social ...
Creating community: how effective curation of interactive spaces can bring readers together
What happens when readers who care about a topic find a space where they can share their ideas, photos, and videos with like-minded people? Community: the holy grail of interactivity, chock full of ...
Are we living in the golden age of investigative journalism? What happens when traditional reporting meets modern data analysis? Stories, case studies and techniques.
Thanks to social media everyone can have an opinion and a voice, but should journalists get personal too? Emotional imagery and words are a great way to get traffic on social media or to get an aud...
According to a Reuters Institute for Journalism report published in January, 79% of digital leaders say they will invest more in online news video this year than they did last year. As video operat...
The refugee crisis that has engulfed the European Union for over a year now is a classic example of a complex humanitarian emergency. Caused primarily by the civil war in Syria and, to a lesser exte...
The Juncker plan aims to create jobs and growth through targeted investments in the most important sectors of the European economy, which is now emerging from the crisis. What does this mean in prac...