Over the past six months, some of the brightest minds in media have visited the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication to discuss issues ranging from flaws in mobile design, the challenges of data journalism, as well as the role of small town newspapers, and how citizens of the Arabian Gulf are embracing social media.
Despite these varied subject areas, all five talks had a core thread running through them: trust.
Six years after the Arab Spring rocked many parts of the Middle East, the region continues to feel ramifications from this turbulent period. Here are five key trends that journalists and news organizations working in the region need to consider.
In this episode I sit down with Stacy-Marie Ishmael, a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Stacy spent the 2016–17 academic year researching the challenges newsrooms face in adapting to the rise […]
These slides highlight key themes from my fifth annual study on the state of social media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), following previous publications covering developments in 2012, 2013, […]
First published by ZDNet. Image: VV Voennyy Mobile data traffic is growing faster in the Middle East and Africa than anywhere in the world. The Middle East loves mobile. Between 2009 […]
Jordanian entrepreneur Evelyn Zoubi. (Image: Spencer Chen) NB: This is an extended version of a piece which was first published by ZDNet. In 2010, Hillary Clinton — the then US Secretary of […]
Presentation given to the What is Media? conference in Portland, April 2016. My slides explore seven major tech trends and how they are impacting on content creation and distribution.
Overview of where we’ve come from, and where we’re going… with an emphasis on social media usage in the USA and some key emerging global trends and behaviors. (Produced for […]
This is the fourth extract from Where are we now? UK hyperlocal media and community journalism in 2015 a new report commissioned by the Centre for Community Journalism and supported by Cardiff University and Nesta. […]
First published on TheMediaBriefing and written with Abigail Edge. Is the age of traditional television viewing in the USA finally on its way out? More than a quarter (28 per […]
Damian Radcliffe 