Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2016
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What has 2016 taught you, as a journalist? Part two
The digital year was characterised by an explosion of fake news, unsettling evidence of the power of social media to distort the truth and a torrent of tech developments that challenged the news media. Here is what some journalists will take away from an extraordinary 12 months.
What has 2016 taught you, as a journalist? Part one
The seismic year of Brexit, Trump and fake news knocked the stuffing out of old assumptions and left the traditional media with plenty to chew over. We asked a cross-section of journalists, including some Academy bloggers, what they’d learned from the turmoil of 2016.
Looking at stories differently
How can news stories be told differently? An Advanced Storytelling course tries to answer that question. Here, its leader offers his tips.
How 100 women edited their way into the Wikipedia record books, in 15 languages
An idea to increase the number of women listed in Wikipedia grew into an international edit-a-thon for the BBC 100 Women season, adding a record-breaking 400 new female entries.
Social broadcasting: Can quality and authenticity cut through?
An all-day BBC conference on the future of social broadcasting brought together industry leaders and innovators to debate fake news, live streaming, who owns the news and a host of other challenges for the social environment.
How the BBC England data unit scraped airport noise complaints
A case study in finding stories from publicly-available data: how a BBC News story was researched using information from the Heathrow Airport website.
What's wrong with ‘alt-right’ and other usage questions from 2016
Use of the terms ‘alt-right’ and ‘paedophile’ in news reports were just two of the challenges facing BBC style editor Ian Jolly in 2016.
Personal tragedy taught me importance of sensitive ‘death knock’ reporting
A death in her own family and resulting media response made Becky Garrod determined to help other journalists deal with grieving relatives in the most sensitive way. Her research was the basis for new BBC Academy guidance on working with the bereaved. Here she explains her motivation.
