Modern technology and digital communication play an enormous role in our daily lives. State infrastructure, the private sector, and the general public increasingly rely on information technology t...
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Challenged by a radically new scenario and undermined by nimble new competitors, mainstream media is hard at it trying to weather the digital revolution. Put bluntly, is there any place in the futur...
This session will show you how to tweet like a ninja. Designed by former BBC journalist Sue Llewellyn, this Twitter Masterclass has been delivered to over 4000 presenters and journalists across the...
At the end of 2013, Peter Grestle, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of Al Jazeera were arrested in Egypt on charges of spreading false information and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, the politica...
Annual get-together of Italian school pupils involved in writing for and producing their school newspapers. Over 100 budding journalists will address the key issues in a three-day forum.
Superdesk is a new story-driven platform for newsrooms that handles news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing end-to-end. More (and different) than a CMS, Superdesk is open so...
In June 2013, NSA contractor Edward Snowden met with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen Macaskill and film-maker Laura Poitras in Hong Kong. The whistleblower gave them documents which proved t...
For some time, press freedom in Turkey has not been enjoying good health. Beyond putting pressure on the press and civil liberties, in March 2014 and once again in April 2015 the Turkish government bl...
A debate inspired by an article by BBC reporter Dave Lee, where he questions how to report when there are cyber attacks. Listed below there are some points to highlight the main themes analyzed. "Cyb...
The picture of the Ukrainian conflict presented by Russia’s main media outlets controlled by the state or oligarchs loyal to the Kremlin is black and white. The Kiev junta kills innocent people, r...