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Inaccuracy can do more harm than intrusion in ‘death knock’ reporting
Journalists-turned-academics Sallyanne Duncan and Jackie Newton have spent many years researching the reporting of death and bereavement. Here they offer advice on interviewing people who are grieving.
Baku’s European Games: Social media stand-off with uncertain future
Azerbaijan’s restricted media have pushed debate onto social media especially around the European Games
#bbcsms: The future of the news business and the social media challenge
After the financial abyss and near-death spiral of 2009, most major US news brands showed in 2010 that they could rebound from one of the worst economic downturns newspapers have faced in recent memory. But that was 2010. Here we are in the first half of 2011 facing yet another tough financia...
Don't let media studies rewrite TV history of 'the Arab Spring'
I suspect that when the histories are written the revolution in Libya will occupy a similar place to the Romanian revolution in 1989 - the bloodiest to date but in the end an uprising that lacked much significance for all but its people. Libya is not significant in the way Egypt is. Egypt's r...
Access all archives: news media management is a select occupation
NewsI am one of a new breed of news archivists, the news media managers, who work in newsrooms alongside journalists, managing the media used to produce BBC .
Finding the news: Mobile and social revolution gathers pace
Across all platforms, fewer people are accessing the front page of a news website - more people are going directly to stories via search or social media.
Sports journalism, ethics and how not to fall at the first hurdle
Compared to the travails of news journalism, sports journalism seems to be fairly benign, yet to the uninitiated it is an ethical minefield.
How journalist safety and freedom of speech made the headlines in Finland
A colossal 80-part series highlighting the plight of international journalists who have been imprisoned, persecuted or killed in the past year has been one Finnish newspaper’s remarkable commitment to raising the profile of journalists' safety.
