Live blogs are a popular format for covering crises, breaking news, politics, or sports events. Despite their popularity among journalists and the public, the format has also been subject to scholarly debate regarding the conflict between immediacy versus credibility, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty …

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Liveblogs are very popular with the public and journalists alike. The problem, though, is their credibility, given the uncertainty of the covered events and the immediacy of their production. Little is known about how journalists routinize the unexpected—to paraphrase Tuchman—when journalists report …

Nieuwsmedia lijken over onvoldoende kennis te beschikken om jongeren te bereiken. Een belangrijke vraag is hoe de professionele journalistiek een gevoel van desillusie kan voorkomen dat Millennials ervaren wanneer ze nieuws consumeren. Constructieve journalistiek wordt vaak gezien als een manier om het …

Interactivity as part of journalistic narratives is a common practice in newsrooms around the world. Interactive journalistic narratives developed as a subgenre of online journalism in the decade following Snow Fall: The Avalanche of Tunnel Creek (The New York Times, 2012) after which news organisations …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Interactive multimedia productions are a recent journalistic format. The format has been studied in the Anglo-Saxon context as digital longform and interactive documentary. Research has consequently focused on English language productions. This article presents an overview of these types of productions …

Globalization was supposed to connect people, but instead ended up connecting the powerful. Local news is rapidly disappearing and leaving crucial stories unreported, communities unrepresented and disconnected, a side-effect of digitalization and the ownership concentration in media markets. But local …