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European Journalism Centre

Five essential ingredients to make your community-driven journalism more resilient

Resources and takeaways from Engagement Explained Live: Building resilience

Nov 14, 2019

Five essential ingredients to make your community-driven journalism more resilient

Nov 14, 2019

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European Journalism Centre

This is why we’re funding these eight news organisations doing engaged journalism

Behind-the-scenes of choosing our Engaged Journalism Accelerator grantees

Feb 5, 2019

This is why we’re funding these eight news organisations doing engaged journalism

Feb 5, 2019

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European Journalism Centre

The product management mistakes most media companies make — and what you can do to fix them

Lessons from the recent News Impact Academy in London

Oct 24, 2018

The product management mistakes most media companies make — and what you can do to fix them

Oct 24, 2018

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European Journalism Centre

Why European journalists struggle to engage with their communities

After 25 phone interviews, 11 news organisation visits in five countries and one survey, here’s what we found

Sep 14, 2018

Why European journalists struggle to engage with their communities

Sep 14, 2018

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European Journalism Centre

We’re all in on engaged journalism. Now we need your help

Take five minutes to tell us how the Engaged Journalism Accelerator can help you

Jul 4, 2018

We’re all in on engaged journalism. Now we need your help

Jul 4, 2018

Ben Whitelaw
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Digital Times

How to avoid repeating other newspapers’ mistakes

Casenote follows IPSO/PCC and your own legal rulings so you don’t have to

Apr 1, 2015

How to avoid repeating other newspapers’ mistakes

Apr 1, 2015

Ben Whitelaw

Let’s make it a fair fight before we call time on comments on media sites

Social media tools have far more firepower than commenting platforms. That needs to change. Step forward The Coral Project..

Feb 11, 2015

Let’s make it a fair fight before we call time on comments on media sites

Feb 11, 2015

Ben Whitelaw

Reuters were right to close comments — because they didn’t know how it could make them money

It’s not about engagement, transparency or accountability — it’s about customer churn and cold hard cash

Nov 14, 2014

Reuters were right to close comments — because they didn’t know how it could make them money

Nov 14, 2014

Ben Whitelaw

Comments aren’t about making people angry anymore. We just forgot to tell our readers that was the…

Not so long ago, comments on many news sites were just a way of generating revenue. Lots of comments yielded higher page traffic through…

Nov 2, 2014

Comments aren’t about making people angry anymore. We just forgot to tell our readers that was the…

Nov 2, 2014

Ben Whitelaw

Why my friend’s engagement announcement shows Facebook has a long way to go to achieving its goal…

A few weeks ago, I got some good news. One of my good friends proposed to his girlfriend and she said yes. Finding out on Facebook on a…

Nov 2, 2014

Nov 2, 2014

Ben Whitelaw

Ben Whitelaw

Journalist. Building sustainable media at FT Strategies. Formerly European Journalism Centre, The Times and The Guardian. Co-founded @WannabeHacks.

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