In a recent official statement, Google highlighted the negative effects of fake reviews on review websites and specifically requested companies not to buy and users not to accept payments to provide fake reviews (Google, 2019). Also, governmental authorities started acting against organisations that …

Although precarity in journalism is usually understood in terms of economic precarity, this chapter focuses on professional precarity. It critically interrogates how the independent nature of work in entrepreneurial journalism, and in particular the self-reliance in terms of funding for their work, go …

De door Frans Timmermans gepresenteerde Europese klimaatplannen zijn ambitieus en gedurfd, stelt Egbert Dommerholt. Maar ze gaan volgens hem ook uit van onverminderde economische groei, en dat werkt niet.

In dit innovatieonderzoek laat ik zien welke manieren van content aanbieden kan bijdragen aan het vergroten van het online bereik van het radioprogramma Bureau Buitenland. Bij het programma is er de behoefte om online meer zichtbaar te zijn en een grotere groep te bereiken dan de vaste lineaire luisteraars. …

The Saxion XR Lab offered the assignment to recreate a news item in virtual reality. This report covers the research regarding the news items‘ impact compared to a traditional representation, such as an article. To invent a solution that appeals to young adults and fills a market gap, a demo VR experience …

Dit afstudeeronderzoek kijkt naar de toekomst van 360 gradenvideo in de journalistiek. Het heeft als hoofdvraag: 'Heeft 360-graden videojournalistiek toekomst?' Rond 2015 was er veel aandacht voor de videotechniek. Het onderzoek gaat in op de hype van toen. De kenmerken en effecten van de techniek, …

Culture has been viewed as the biggest obstacle to change i n the legacy media newsroom. Older as well as recent literature points out that professional culture typically hinders newsroom innovation processes, and newsrooms in transformation often seem to find culture clashes on their path. These transformational …

This study investigates the degree of news avoidance during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Based on two panel surveys conducted in the period April–June 2020, this study shows that the increased presence of this behavior, can be explained by negative emotions and feelings …

This study explores how journalists in highspeed newsrooms gather information, how gathering activities are temporally structured and how reliability manifests itself in information-gathering activities.

Over the past decade, journalists have created in-depth interactive narratives to provide an alternative to the relentless 24-hour news cycle. Combining different media forms, such as text, audio, video, and data visualisation with the interactive possibilities of digital media, these narratives involve …