What’s behind the biggest misinformation threats?

“If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the ******* window and find out which is true,” Jonathan Foster, a lecturer at Sheffield University, once said. But that is not enough anymore, according to Jenni Sargent, managing director of First Draft. At our latest News Impact Summit on “Covering Politics in a Misinformation Age”, she explained that in today’s media environment, journalists need to investigate if t

Four steps to finding new revenue streams for journalism

“Be the best at serving your audience, because when the user wins, you win,” Rebekah Monson. Rebekah is not your typical news CEO. She does “a lot of post-it stuff” and loves “colour coding”. She is the co-founder of Whereby.us, a new model for local media focused on curation and ‘sticky’ communities, enabled by smart technology. Newsletters are at the core of her business.

This is why co-working spaces are here to stay

While initially co-working spaces were a way for freelancers and startups to rent offices collectively, it has now become an effective workplace strategy, even for large corporations. The number of these next-generation offices around the world has exploded over the last decade. Research suggests an increase of the number of co-working spaces worldwide by nearly 700 percent since 2011. And that number is expected to rise.

October's 'goodnews' special for newsapp upday

I work as a Mobile Editor for the Dutch version of Axel Springer's news app 'upday'. We curate the news, select the most important stories and produce short intros that link to the publishers pages. The aim is for our users to be up-to-date on the most important news stories simply by going through our news app. Additionally, we produce specials on Medium. For this 'goodnews'-special, I select the top stories of the month that had a positive impact.

Chaos at referendum in Catalonia

I work as a Mobile Editor for the Dutch version of Axel Springer's news app 'upday'. We curate the news, select the most important stories and produce short intros that link to the publishers pages. The aim is for our users to be up-to-date on the most important news stories simply by going through our news app. Additionally, we produce specials on Medium. In this special I selected the most impactful images on the night of the referendum in Catalonia.

September's 'goodnews'-special for news app upday

I work as a Mobile Editor for the Dutch version of Axel Springer's news app 'upday'. We curate the news, select the most important stories and produce short intros that link to the publishers pages. The aim is for our users to be up-to-date on the most important news stories simply by going through our news app. Additionally, we produce specials on Medium. For this 'goodnews'-special, I select the top stories of the month that had a positive impact.
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