A major new UN study of 121 countries' legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need strengthening in many cases. It also recommends that ‘acts of journalism’ s...

Turkey ranks in 149th place in the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, below Zimbabwe and Burma/Myanmar. In its 2014 report, Freedom House demoted Turkish media from being “partly...

Every year Italians work until 5 February only to finance waste and inefficiencies of the state. On this symbolic date, identified by the newsroom of Sky TG24, there is the whole sense of the gravit...

Bail-ins, negative interest rates, the end of the bond market as we knew it and extreme volatility in stock markets have placed major demands on financial consultants, savers, journalists and financ...

This hands on session will teach users how to scrape websites using the WebScraper Chrome extension, a point-and-click tool to automatise data extraction from websites. WebScraper allows multi-level...

It is estimated that each year up to 2,000 billion dollars are recycled, much of it through companies that allow the identity of the beneficiaries of the money to be kept secret. Tracking financia...

Sourcing and verifying eyewitness media from the social web is now a standard requirement for many journalists, whether reporting breaking news events or investigating atrocities. In this workshop, ...

Latest developers: how engineers and editors can work together to create an innovative newsroom. Should journalists and developers sit together in newsrooms? Does every journalist need to know how ...

With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...

Learn how to use Advanced Search and search operators in order to improve your chances to find the right informations on the web: lower the background noise, choose the proper archives, reduce the s...