The first era of online video is over. Done are the days of newspapers building crazy expensive TV studios and broadcasters piping full programmes onto websites without clipping and adapting for web a...
Events - panel discussions
There is a great school of investigative journalism in Africa, consisting of journalists, photojournalists, African and Western video-makers who operate in the areas of which they have deep knowledge...
2016 was a year of memes in Western politics, from #CatsAgainstBrexit to Pepe the Frog to #NastyWomen, as meme shells, GIFs and selfies enter the political vernacular. Love them or hate them, internet...
The panel will address the challenges presented to the media covering male violence against women, and especially femicide (the killing of a woman because she is a woman). Looking at data and example...
The media startup journey: how to build a multi-million dollar company from scratch
Adriano Farano founded Watchup in Silicon Valley in 2012 and sold it in a multi-million dollar deal to Plex in 2016. Mark Little founded Storyful in Dublin in 2009 and sold it in a multi-million euro ...
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As monitored attentively at the festival over the past few years, a perfect storm had been brewing over freedom of expression and independent media in Turkey. It erupted fully after the coup attempt...
This debate is not about whether or not the problems of the business model for news will or will not have been solved by 2030. Fake news has generated many claims that journalism is more needed than i...
The Iraqi Army, with western military backing, is currently engaged in a fierce battle against the so-called Islamic State inside Iraq’s second biggest city, Mosul. And the United States is right no...
Journalism cooperatives - where the journalists, and sometimes the readers, own the business, share the profits, and take part in decision-making - have long been a viable, if niche option for journal...