JAMLAB Meetup: Stories of media innovation and Entrepreneurship What innovations in digital media are working and how can we help them? In August JAMLAB is hosting a guest from Ryerson University in Canada, one of our partners in the journalism and media accelerator we are running at Tshimologong. Asmaa Malik is an associate professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism,…
The popular saying goes: “No story is worth dying for” yet scores of journalists and media workers world over are being killed, attacked and intimidated not just in war situations but by repressive governments. The question remains: how do journalists and media workers maintain a safety culture in the midst of these threats? To look into this increasing trend,…
By Jessica Goodfellow & Ronan Shields Under fire from several quarters for an array of accusations ranging from monopolistic practices to the dissemination (and even funding) of fake news, plus questionable measurement procedures, Google is hitting back with both defiant words, as well as financial handouts. The Drum sat down with Madhav Chinnappa, Google’s director of strategic relations, news…
By Julie Posetti Editor’s Note: The nature of threats against journalists are changing as the virtual world spills into the physical. The experiences of Filipino journalist Maria Ressa show how reporters now face targeted online harassment campaigns designed to discredit and silence them. Following is an edited extract from “An Attack On One Is An Attack On All: Successful initiatives to protect journalists…
Christine Schmidt, Nieman Lab | Collaborative journalism is good — until you get lost in email chains, Slack channels and Google Drives. The one-woman team of Project Facet is hoping to change that, and looking for collaborators for her own venture. “There are newsrooms that want to collaborate but it is logistically painful,” Heather Bryant, a journalist and software engineer, said. “Most places are using…
