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Creating change agents: How can you teach journalism innovation?
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How publishers can learn more from their newsroom experiments
Failed newsroom experiments are rarely highlighted – but is there a way to learn more from them?
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3 things fact-checking Brexit taught me about journalism
'Why aren’t we – the media – giving our readers the tools they need to come to an informed opinion?'
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After Snowden, there is clear evidence of a paradigmatic shift in journalist-source relations
Paul Lashmar
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Destination unknown: Trinity Mirror, the Bristol Post and the erosion of local media
How the latest acquisition of Trinity Mirror will continue to take the ‘local’ out of Local World
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'When you're using Twitter to find witnesses, treat it like a door knock'
Alison Gow, digital innovations editor, Trinity Mirror Regionals
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Five paradoxes of a dying press
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'Why independent journalism is challenging the mass media'
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'5 predictions for hyperlocal media in 2015'
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How Note to Self crowdsourced stories about information overload from 30,000 people
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Hindustan Times uses Snapchat filters to enable sexual assault survivors to speak freely on camera
'I thought there must be a more accessible way to disguise someone’s face using new technology, and Snapchat was just that'
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Today Columbia announces it’s search for two new Directors of Toughness, a dream role for passionate adventurers - open to European applicants for the first time with the positon based out of the UK
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