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Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition
Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition
Reddit is testing a new feature that allows users to create and update live blogs about breaking news events such as the recent uprising in Ukraine or the war in Syria — a move that could be a valuable addition to the cause of “open-source…
//February 27 / 2014 //read moreThe internet is enabling collaboration between activists, hackers and journalists on an unprecedented scale. Watch a documentary film series …
//January 8 / 2014 //read moreNepal’s Center for Investigative Journalism hosts publishers to discuss the threats and opportunities in “Doing Digital”.
//December 30 / 2013 //read moreThe Global Editors Network News Summit is one of Doug Arellanes’ favourite tech-journalism conferences of the year because it is the best place to find out about cutting edge digital media topics in an easily accessible way. This year, the…
//July 4 / 2013 //read moreHacktivists have been on a roll, taking over the Twitter and WordPress accounts at a number of high profile news organisations recently. In the best tradition of journalistic transparency, two victims have shared the lessons they have…
//June 3 / 2013 //read moreMore than a half dozen major news organisations including Reuters, Al Jazeera, the BBC and The Guardian have had their Twitter accounts taken over by hackers in the last year, and outlets in emerging democracies could be next. Twitter is…
//May 2 / 2013 //read moreTwitter has a number of advanced search options that will help journalists find updates and photos to help them illustrate their stories. It can help them zero in on updates with photos, as well as finding updates by location so they can…
//April 18 / 2013 //read moreCamera phones and social networks have created an almost unimaginable amount of user-generated content, and in our second in a series looking at how to take advantage of user-generated content, we look at techniques to verify photographs…
//April 5 / 2013 //read moreIn the third of our UGC series, we’ll look at advanced image search techniques that will help find photos that you can use in your news coverage and just as importantly keep you from publishing fake photos that spread quickly during large…
//April 4 / 2013 //read moreIn the first of several guides to user-generated content, we’ll look at Flickr, an early photo sharing site now owned by Yahoo. It has a number of features that make it useful for finding photos that you can use to illustrate your stories.
//March 29 / 2013 //read more