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Nov 6, 2015

Is AI a threat to media jobs? An encounter with one of the UK’s brightest tech minds

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Jan 12, 2016

Six months on, what’s the verdict on TV news coverage of the election?

TV news coverage of this year’s general election has been analysed in detail by Stephen Cushion and Richard Sambrook and their team at Cardiff University. Post-campaign interviews were also carried out with…

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Jun 5, 2016

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…

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Nov 25, 2015

Reporting the migrant crisis: “What’s your name? What brought you here?”

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May 9, 2016

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…

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Mar 4, 2016

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…