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

Thorough understanding of how “outside the box” ideas in the newsroom can be triggered and fostered is fundamental to grasp innovation in journalism, but is still largely uncharted territory. Comprehension of its key elements would enable news organisations to reinvent themselves and improve chances …

Together with ten Dutch museums and four design agencies, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences led the practice-based research called The Exhi- bition Designer of the 21st Century (2017-2019), which was funded by Regieor- gaan SIA. Researching the effect of intentionally designed museum experiences, …

In 2015 is er onderzoek gedaan naar de tevredenheid van journalisten over de woordvoering van het ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid (SZW). Hoewel het voornamelijk positief nieuws was, waren er duidelijke verbeterpunten op het gebied van woordvoering. Om de journalisten beter te bedienen …

Welke rol is weggelegd voor de Newsroom als Staatsbosbeheer te maken heeft met issues of crises? Om deze vraag te kunnen beantwoorden is een explorerend kwalitatief onderzoek uitgevoerd. Aan de hand van deskresearch, diepte-interviews en een focusgroep is onderzocht hoe de Newsroom van Staatsbosbeheer …

In newsrooms journalists encounter numerous constraints accelerated by increasing technological and economic pressures. The complexity of the job and the need for (constant) innovation coupled with the rising call for transparency and accountability ask for journalists who “reflect-in-action”. Newsroom …

Due to the need to present information in a fast and attractive way, organizations are eager to use information visualisations. This study explores the collision between the different experts involved in the production of these visualisations using the model of trading zones supplemented with the …

Visualizing news is increasingly considered an apt way for dealing with two challenges of modern journalism: disclosing big data and presenting complex information in a way that is easy to comprehend. Newsrooms are trying their hand at it, and finding ways to organize the production of information visualizations …

Verifying information is one of the core activities of journalism. However, recent research shows that many stories derive from unchecked information from news agencies and PR material. That being said, reporters who do not use this pre-packaged material, but who instead produce original stories based …