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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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BBC Academy

Apr 11, 2016

Is this a smiley face which I see before me — or is #ShakespeareMe a whole new way to discover the Bard?

By Cathy Loughran

What would Shakespeare have made of social media? In particular, would our greatest writer have been a fan…

BBC Academy

Mar 15, 2016

Comedy writers: Abandon your Sunday lunch

If you lived in the ‘most deprived estate’ in Wales, would you let the cameras in?

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…

BBC Academy

Feb 26, 2016

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…

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Is this a smiley face which I see before me — or is #ShakespeareMe a whole new way to discover the Bard?

Comedy writers: Abandon your Sunday lunch

If you lived in the ‘most deprived estate’ in Wales, would you let the cameras in?

How we built a new tool for journalists in 12 hours

How we reported the stories of Indian women fighting back after acid attacks

Can free stuff make you rich? The battle of internet business models

How to tell seven murder stories in 60 minutes

Learning to shoot with the army — on Newsbeat’s most ambitious film

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