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New Site Podchaser Helps Listeners Discover Podcasts

Ricardo Bilton | One of the most common gripes about Apple among podcasters, particularly those with smaller audiences, is that the company hasn’t done enough to solve the industry’s discovery…
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Google News puts fact-checking first in latest redesign

Joseph Lichterman, Nieman Lab | Google on Tuesday launched a redesigned desktop version of Google News that introduces a more streamlined design, highlights fact checking and offers users additional personalization. Google News’ desktop…
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Journalists across the globe see ‘fake news’ as a shape-shifting monster

H R Venkatesh | Fake news, to me, is a bit like a fast-moving cancer. You’ve got to look really hard to detect it, but once you do, you realize…
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European Journalism Centre launches Facebook safety guide for journalists

Taylor Mulcahey | Facebook has become a critical tool for sourcing, viewing and sharing news, and as a result, it is increasingly important for journalists to be able to navigate…
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How journalists with few resources can protect their websites

Jorge Luis Sierra | Adversaries of independent journalists are now using an electronic arsenal to attack news websites. Those adversaries can include agents of authoritarian governments, corrupt private companies or…
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Tips For Journalists On Conducting Interviews

Tips For Journalists on Conducting Interviews Interviews often start out as interrogations with series of questions and answers. Interview is in the heart of a journalist, yet so very few…
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X-raying Ethical Journalism In The Wake Of Fake News

Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) organized a media clinic to x-ray the good and the challenges presented by social media to the practice of journalism in Africa. It was aimed…
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7 business models that could save the future of journalism

Mandla Chinula | The digital era has altered consumer patterns and has in turn disrupted newspapers’ traditional advertising models. This has pushed media practitioners to look for innovative ways to…
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The Emergence Of Internet A Blessing To Journalism Profession- Chindaba

Lucy Danjuma Chindaba graduated as an Economist with high hopes of working in a bank or Accounts Department of any organization she would find herself. That dream was seemingly dashed…
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END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) March 9, 2017 trained a group of Kaduna based journalists on reporting Violence against Women and Children (VAWC).   The training which took place at AMDF…
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