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 research project Less Hate, More Speech implements a field experiment in comment moderation on major mainstream media sites in Romania. The media partners are Gsp.ro – one of the biggest news ...
The arrival of the TV cameras, the search for the culprit(s), the media trial; they all affect the economic and social life of the location where a crime takes place. Despite the crisis of mainstrea...
Tackling complex issues in the media: the example of genetically modified crops
Genetically modified crops, also called transgenic plants or GMO, have been in existence for over thirty years and have been used in agriculture for more than twenty years. They now represent more t...
The protection of sources is one of the foundations of a journalist’s work. Not surprisingly, it is the law itself that establishes a legal protection so that the journalist is allowed not to disc...
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...
The Snowden revelations delineated new frontiers in the world of intelligence and cyber-security. This session will analyse the so-called Datagate Affair (NSA scandal) and the recent happenings in K...
They are a cutting-edge band. Playing 200 concerts a year, many of them sold out, without going mainstream and participating at the Sanremo Music Festival (the most popular Italian song contest), be...
All the ingredients are there to make climate change a journalism workshop: obstacles, opportunities, risks, limitations, and the prospects of journalism that has to search for, find, and invent n...