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Media Production and Technology Show – Registration now open and new features announced for 2020

January 6th, 2020

The organisers of the Media Production and Technology Show 2020 are delighted to announce that registration for this year’s event, which takes place 13-14...

Al Jazeera’s step to the cloud

July 25th, 2019

The broadcaster is revamping its newsroom technology – and the cloud is at the centre of it.

On the scene: the tech behind live weather reporting

July 24th, 2019

Whether it’s tornadoes, floods or fires, extreme weather is being tracked in real time by journalists using bonded cellular technology

Newsroom Everywhere

April 11th, 2019

Next-generation newsrooms are as small as your kitchen table and as big as the whole wide world. Sony’s Media Backbone Hive is the glue...

F is for F* off to fake news

November 12th, 2018

An EU co-funded project has developed tools to check the factuality of user-generated content, social media posts and online video. They’re already being used...

Francesca Tripodi, Data & Society: “How we get information is very flawed”

June 10th, 2018

Is online and algorithm-driven news distorting our ability to see the world accurately? Dr Francesca Tripodi researched it in the American south Sociologist and...

Start-up: Newsbridge, France, 2016

April 22nd, 2018

When you think of digital start-up twins, the Facebook-suing, Olympics-rowing Winklevosses may spring to mind, but for the Paris-based Petitpont twins setting up their...

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