Shelley Pascual

01/06/2020

Microsoft is one of many tech companies experimenting with forms of so-called to cut costs.

Dozens working on the MSN site look set to be replaced by AI, media reports say.

05/05/2020

“I went from someone to no one in 30 minutes.”

A 54-year-old journalist lost his job running an Indiana newspaper, as well as the apartment that went with it. He moved to a Motel 6.

26/03/2020

How Photojournalists Are Documenting the Coronavirus Crisis https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-photojournalism/

09/03/2020

The launch of WHO's TikTok account is part of its work to get accurate info concerning the novel coronavirus to people online.

It’s partnered with Facebook, Google, and Twitter, too.

12/02/2020

"The The New York Times, in one sense, is a spectacular and hopeful success story. But in other ways it reveals the disastrous state of the current media landscape."

A handful of legacy institutions thrive as digital startups face increasing pressures

05/02/2020

In spite of receiving death threats and now facing several lawsuits, Maria Ressa comes across in this compelling interview as down to earth and fearless.

I admire her and so many other journalists for their relentless search for the truth and drive to hold the powerful to account.

Maria Ressa, co-founder of the news website Rappler, disclosed the massive spread of fake-news by the government in the Philippines. That has made her a very powerful enemy.

28/01/2020

“The initiative is just one layer of a multi-pronged, cross-sector approach is taking to prepare citizens of all ages for the complex digital landscape of today and tomorrow.” 👩🏼‍💻🧑🏾‍💻

Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

14/01/2020

Oh whoa. Srsly, DW Deutsche Welle?

Whistleblowers say workers who raise concerns at German state broadcaster are silenced

08/01/2020

I also fell for the original story, womp. From Europe to Asia, media outlets worldwide were reporting on it, after all.

As Finland’s prime minister, 34-year-old Sanna Marin, scanned international news headlines this week, she may have been surprised to learn that she was being credited for looking into the feasibility of a four-day work week.

21/12/2019

"But where are you from ORIGINALLY?"

Yeah, but where are you really from? Starring Natasha Vasandani & Toby Williams Written by Tasha Dhanraj & Hannah George Directed by Hannah George -- Click h...

25/11/2019

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The broadcaster cut out laughter during leaders’ debate on Question Time in later news bulletin clip

15/11/2019

🤦🏽‍♀️ “It's another blow to local news ecosystems."

A network of fake local news sites generated millions of pageviews as part of an ad fraud scheme, researchers say.

22/10/2019

"That profits can be used for a social purpose is a simple yet revolutionary concept... but social enterprises can only continue to do their incredible work if we choose to buy from them.”

The new report demonstrates the strength of social businesses, just as Social Enterprise UK launched a celebrity-backed campaign to get consumers supporting brands with purpose

03/10/2019

“A Canadian media non-profit is launching a campaign against fake news after recent polling found Canadians are regularly exposed to misinformation but don’t always have the knowledge to combat it.”

Recent polling suggests nearly all Canadians have come across misinformation online, yet only 40 per cent feel they know how to differentiate between fake news and the real thing.

24/09/2019

Many say Canadian newsrooms must tackle race head-on — and employ more diverse reporters

Most of the journalists peppering Trudeau with questions about the brown and blackface images have been white. And many journalists of colour say when you’re covering an explosive story about race, that’s a problem.

03/09/2019

Teens care about the news. They just don’t like traditional media.

16/08/2019

If students are to become the media leaders of tomorrow, the one thing they now need is an ability to navigate change, according to a digital media expert. No one business model is going to save journalism, but there are signs for optimism.

How do you build an experimental mindset among young journalists?

15/08/2019

Dang. And media giants like Guardian and BBC reported on the story. Smh

Did you know it's surprisingly easy to pretend to tweet from basically any source?

09/08/2019

"The fragmented and contradictory media coverage of the crisis left room for questions to go unanswered and myths to circulate: who are these people and what do they want from us? Are they bringing their problems to our shores? Do they threaten our culture and values?"

Disaster reporting plays to set ideas about people from ‘over there’. By Daniel Trilling

08/08/2019

Some interesting points raised here. | A millennial journalist's perspective on the future of journalism (in Canada)

We invited millennial journalist Angelyn Francis to create this video "op-ed" to add her voice to the public conversation on the future of journalism -- and ...

01/08/2019

"Journalism can reveal deeper truths... the most important narratives don’t take place center-stage but are often fighting to be heard at the margins."

Between 2013 and 2016, I worked as a reporter for The New York Observer. It was my first full-time job in journalism, there was little oversight, and I had no assigned beat. Because I was a relative greenhorn in the newsroom, I struggled to come up with story ideas. After a while, however, I found [...

08/07/2019

"Operating at the intersection of art and journalism, the project investigates the relationship between creative practices, current affairs and how design presents information in the public sphere."

Royal College of Art graduate Paula Minelgaite combines art and journalism to critically examine the role of design in society

01/07/2019

Reporting the news, and engaging audiences in being interested in the news, are often seen as being intrinsically the same job, although the requirements for both can be in tension with one another.

Initiatives such as Tortoise aim to engage audiences alienated by Brexit and Trump

29/06/2019

"...what was always unclear was how much the site’s writers — often with little or no journalistic experience or training — understood the traditions they were turning inside out or ignoring."

The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

17/06/2019

Faulty reporting and ceding ground to the right will continue as long as news outlets keep cutting back on LGBTQ coverage.

15/06/2019

Accurate.

She wasn’t spicy like Sean or hopeful like Hicks, but she was the perfect spokeswoman for a perfectly lazy and dishonest president

14/06/2019

Disappointing. Can't say I'm surprised, though.

Canadians have relatively high trust in their media compared to other countries, but that doesn't translate into a willingness to pay for online news.

12/06/2019

The Times should know better than to credulously write an entire story around one study funded by its own industry — but they did so anyway.

11/06/2019

"Information wants to be free, but reporters need to get paid.”

According to report by the News Media Alliance, revenue was almost as much as that of the entire online news industry

05/06/2019

Looking for an alternative to hard news outlets? These three news startups value quality over quantity. Tortoise Media Kinzen Curio - Hear What Matters

Mathematics takes a look at the news companies striving to keep access to and creation of qualtiy, responsible journalism easy in 2019.

03/06/2019

"The fake news writer was rewriting fabricated or misleading articles for two major copycat websites based in North Macedonia targeting US readers."

In North Macedonia, there’s a small industry of websites publishing misleading and inflammatory political articles targeted at US readers. Simon Oxenham meets a woman who worked there.

01/06/2019

Canada and the UK are working together to defend and improve the safety of journalists who report across the world. The Global Conference for Media Freedom takes place in London on 10th-11th July 2019. https://buff.ly/2ENm9wL

27/05/2019

“The challenge is finding someone who is interested in the business side but also really believes in the kind of work we’re doing," says BuzzFeed News’s director of curation. https://buff.ly/2HFj97t

There is no consensus on whether this emerging role should sit in editorial, product, marketing or elsewhere.

21/05/2019

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NEW YORK—Admitting they badly need to turn their business around, executives at struggling media company Vidmark Interactive confided to sources Tuesday that their situation has become so dire they may have to consider giving a job to someone who is actually qualified to hold it. “We’ve had su...

20/05/2019

Hmmmmmm.

Journalism is hard. Hours of research and writing culminate with publishing a piece with little more than blind faith that it’ll be well-received. Most aren’t. And for those that flop, it’s typically the headline we start with when trying to diagnose the cause of our failures. Until recently, ...