2020 Vision: Forecasts for the year ahead from Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture
Four small words; the future of journalism. What should we expect to see making a dent in our profession over the 12 months ahead?
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Can community power save magazines?
After 14 years of circulation decline, Country Walking magazine achieved an incredible 34% sales uplift thanks to an innovative online campaign that has built an army of evangelical readers.
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Should Journalism Schools teach TikTok – even if Newsrooms are on the fence?
Tik Tok is an app. Put it on your phone or tablet.
Users create looping videos of around 15–20 seconds in length (think of it as Vine’s big brother) and mostly set them to a library of music clips. The look-and-feel is that of slick young creators producing edited video content with a banging soundtrack.
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U.S. Audiences More Willing to Pay for News: Voice-Activated Services the Next Frontier
The publication of the annual Digital News Report, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, is eagerly
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8 Surprising Global News Habits
The annual Digital News Report, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the attitudes and habits of news audiences.
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Is Local News On The Cusp Of A Renaissance?
It’s not an easy time to be a journalist in the United States. Since 2000, nearly half of newsroom jobs – more than 20,000 of them – have disappeared.
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Don’t pretend political PR is journalism: The National Assembly for Wales and the independence of our news
When it comes to public communication about politics, Wales has issues.
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Trump and the media – the war goes on
Trump’s battle with the US media is becoming more worrying and farcical.
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Sexism in Politics – and beyond
The sexism faced by GE 17 election candidate, Emily Owen is sadly too commonplace in the media and society in general.
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The squeeze on good journalism
Responsible journalism is under pressure. The old business models are failing and as yet there is no clear new business model for serious news. Trusted information is the currency of healthy democracies – but today that currency is debased, and we are all paying the price.
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