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The science of a good story

by Jack Burgess

Over three decades in journalism BBC News science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has witnessed a change in how the media works: “20 years ago there was a lot of kowtowing to what scientists thought,” he told me. “You wouldn’t get that in…


News start-up will stick with stories after the press pack has left

By Natalia Antelava

Former BBC correspondent Natalia Antelava is the co-founder of Coda Story, a journalism start-up based in New York that wants to let reporters stay on a story after the


How we built a new tool for journalists in 12 hours

By Kata Karáth

Tech-minded journalists met journalism-minded techies at City University, London, for a BBC-sponsored hackathon. The participants were challenged to develop a digital product using something called


Taking the temperature of British journalism

by Neil Thurman

Neil Thurman is the lead author of a new report about journalism from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Here he summarises some of the main findings, which give an


How the BBC bought Muhammad Ali a pink suit

by Iain Johnstone

In 1975, BBC documentary producer Iain Johnstone negotiated filming access to Muhammad Ali. The deal with Ali’s agent was that for ten days over a three week period, Johnstone and his crew could film Ali but on


TV in the Falklands: The best way to learn is hands on

by Federica De Caria

We asked videojournalist Federica De Caria to keep us posted about her new job with Falkland Islands Television. Previously, she described how she got hired, flew south and met her new

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