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Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2015

Posts (10)

  1. Digital news in 28 languages: Scalable, shareable formats

    In part two of this blog post, Dmitri Shishkin describes how BBC World Service is experimenting with digital formats to target its multilingual audiences.

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  2. Digital news in 28 languages, driven by ‘mobile-first’: No-one said it was easy

    The task of my team is to manage digital development of the news the BBC offers in 28 languages and to drive digital strategy. Here are a few of the key things I’ve learned over the past four years.

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  3. Eyewitness media: ‘Valued stop-gap but no match for professional journalism’

    Much has been made of the extent to which eyewitness media has infiltrated news output. But what do news consumers in the UK think about this content?

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  4. Journalists on Twitter: Stop shouting, start listening

    Yvette Cooper has a point: too many politicians use Twitter like they are "shouting in a train station". Journalists are, quite frankly, just as guilty.

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  5. How to avoid overcooking a food story: 10 tips for reporting nutritional science

    There are many ways that the science of nutrition gets reported wrongly. Here are ten tips to avoid the pitfalls.

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  6. How hapless journalists binged on a chocolate story they should have resisted

    How should journalists check that a story about nutrition is all it claims to be? And what can be learnt from how the media was fooled by a recent hoax story about chocolate?

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  7. Chat apps as a new source of original journalism

    BBC Trending has explored chat apps as a source of insight and contacts on a couple of big, sensitive stories.

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  8. How could you help people take collective action on climate change?

    Sarah Shenker was part of a BBC team developing an online idea for a journalism competition in Barcelona.

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  9. Virtual reality, 360 video and the future of immersive journalism

    What does virtual reality offer journalism? And how do experiments in 360 degree filming help answer that question?

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  10. Covering Calais with a BBC 360 filming experiment

    What happened when BBC reporter Paul Adams and an experimental 360 film crew found themselves at the centre of an unfolding drama in Calais.

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