Credit: Photo by fauxels from Pexels News Over-reliance on graduate hiring can thwart the efforts to diversify the UK news industry The latest NCTJ report reveals that 92 per cent of the British press is white and 89 per cent hold a university degree. What will it take to achieve fairer representation? By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: Jeyaratnam Caniceus from Pixabay News Viral Facts Africa fights covid infodemic with emojis and animated messages A collaborative project experiments with shareable social content to tackle the spread of coronavirus misinformation on the continent By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
Credit: Boris Bobrov on Unsplash News What news publishers can learn from Silicon Valley It is time to ruthlessly focus on the future and move away from products and revenue models that are not going to work long term By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
News Leading change in the digital newsrooms Join us at the next Newsrewired conference, taking place online from 18 to 27 May 2021 By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
Credit: Marjan Blan on Unsplash News Five tips for aspiring foreign correspondents Reporting from distant regions conjures up images of discovery and adventure. But breaking into this field of journalism is notoriously hard By Madison Temmel • 2 min read
Credit: Courtesy Sky News. Pictured: Deborah Haynes News Deborah Haynes: 'The online environment is a hostile environment' The Sky News foreign affairs editor has investigated invisible threats facing nations and members of the public. But journalists can also get pulled into the firing line and must be wary of dodgy job offers and online trolls By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by Rupert Britton on Unsplash News How journalism students can stand out amongst their peers Make sure your prospective employer keeps reading your CV and you are not a forgettable interviewee By Isobel McCarthy • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash News Reuters spotlights top researchers pushing the climate change debate The Hot List ranks the 1,000 most influential climatologists, including lower-profile but high-impact scientists, those who work in developing countries, and women in the field By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Miguel Ángel Sanz on Unsplash News I am a local journalist: what can AI do for me? In this new special series that focuses on journalism rather than algorithms, we look at how the Norwegian regional title Bergens Tidende uses automation to cover the real estate market By Marcela Kunova • 5 min read
Credit: Happy Aano Instagram News Try to ask the public "Are you happy?" next time you are covering an election campaign Four Indian journalists set out on a road trip to report on the Kerala local election. With one simple question, they spotlighted issues communities really care about By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: AlMahra under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International News A decade on from the Arab Spring: ten ways use of social media has changed in the Middle East In 2011, Facebook and Twitter were key players for political uprisings in the region. Ten years later, TikTok videos celebrating Ramadan are proving a hit By Damian Radcliffe • 6 min read
Credit: Mac McCreery on Flickr News "You’re not writing the hardest-hitting stories but they mean something to someone" Two Facebook-funded community reporters from Bournemouth and Birmingham talk about the impact of their work during the pandemic By Carlo Simone • 3 min read
