Tag: BBC
State Media: Move Fast and Label Things
Dominant thanks to their privileged status and special funding arrangements, state media play a disproportionately high role in shaping narratives, especially in times of crisis,…
News Media on Twitter: Who Are the Top Dogs in Europe?
Large, established media, including public service outlets, dominate the Twitter market in much of Western Europe, but less in the east. Mainstream media outlets dominate…
Andras Petho: Time to Study Psychology in Journalism Schools
Interview with Andras Petho, co-founder of Hungarian investigative journalism outlet Direkt36 Andras Petho spent much of his 15-year journalism career at the Hungarian news site…
Facebook News Media: The Heroes and Zeros
One would expect the richer western newsrooms to be more agile in commanding online audiences; however, it is news outlets in less developed markets that…
Cambodia Daily: Sudden Death, Khmer Style
Cambodia Daily is shutting down operations after nearly a quarter-century in business. An outright dictatorship is on the horizon. The journalists of Cambodia Daily newspaper delivered their last…
The Big Facebook Boys in the Russian Commonwealth
Facebook is not particularly popular in the former Soviet Union space when it comes to news media. Outside Russia, though, Facebook news media from other…
Facebook News Media: A Lesson From Palestine
Our MENA Facebook Index shows an exceptional news appetite, but also room for further growth in the Arab world. Today, we released Facebook Index Middle East…
Paul Myers: News Organizations Should Not Be Intimidated
Interview with BBC’s Paul Myers Paul Myers joined the BBC in 1995 as an information researcher. In time, with the growing significance of the internet, Mr…
Public Media Must Finally Change
Critics of taxpayer funding for public media are on the rise; and for good reason. It’s time for public media to take their audience seriously….