journalism

Google, UNESCO launch training programme for African journalists

Google and UNESCO have launched the Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education to train and support journalists in Africa. The initiative aims to assist…

Facebook to add info on news articles in the hopes you start re-trusting the media

US President Donald Trump and his administration have made it their mission to sow a distrust for the media throughout the US — and the…

15+ SA journalists you should follow on Twitter [Digital All Stars]

Digital All Stars is a series of articles which aims to celebrate the best of South African digital. The articles, which will appear on…

[Updated] Here’s what went down at the Huffington Post SA this weekend

Update, 20 April: The Huffington Post has revealed Marius Roodt, a white man from Johannesburg, as the man behind the blog. Roodt says he was concerned…

What The Guardian’s next editor might think about technology, and what that would mean for journalism

It was the first major news organisation to introduce live blogging, and the first to open commenting across its site. With 120-million unique visitors this…

How to make your journalistic Twitter network rock: A case study

Twitter is as essential a tool for journalism these days as a pen and notepad once were. One tweet can be can be as…

6 breakthrough startups set to disrupt the news industry

In April this year, Memeburn picked ten innovative Knight News Challenge entries that had the potential to propel the news industry forward. The “Networks”…

Are memes the future of news?

Comic-meme creation and consumption has taken internet culture by storm and seems to be only increasing in frequency and engagement. Memes come in all…

Why the new iPad might not be the tablet that saves journalism

“Sorry, it is not available,” the shop assistant told me. Ordering online wasn’t a possibility either; the ASUS Transformer was nowhere to be found….

When did tech journalism become about scooping product specs?

Why has tech reporting become such tedious product journalism? Why are reporters trying to scoop each other on news that is essentially a spec…

Media corrections and our social reputations

The modern news cycle has been diminished to a matter of minutes — even less on services like Twitter. And it seems to just…

The continuing rise of activist media and the demise of the Fourth Estate

In a recent article, I pointed out that activist media, such as the posts, tweets, photos, and videos produced by the Occupy Wall Street…

‘The blog is dead, long live the blog’ — Chris Anderson on the future of media

We may need new words for journalists, editors and the “news”, because their definitions are constraining and changing. Maybe the editors of the future…

‘Support good journalism — Pay the wall’

I don’t understand the current debate over the New York Times paywall. Yes, it has holes in it and yes it is a bit…

Curation: A proxy for ‘social media’?

Curation is a hot topic and it’s a topic that is being enthusiastically adopted by many in social media — so much so that…

Churnalism: Journalism from press releases

Journalists love to write original stories but there is also a lot of re-write work that has to be done: quick shorts, events, announcements,…

Five ways Twitter makes you a better journalist

Many journalists still balk at the idea of Twitter. They’re put off by the noise, the loud celebrities and the gushing streams of irrelevance….

Google puts scientific research tools in the hands of journalists

Do you remember how to create a graph by hand out of a set of data, or how to design a survey? Probably not….

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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