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Every journalist of the future will be dependent on technology and social media to tell and share their stories, whether they like it or not. Gone are the days when readers read the news by solely picking up a newspaper on the way to work. In fact, chances are that
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Two years ago, Buzzfeed leaked a graph showing a steep decline in visitors to the New York Times’ homepage. Almost immediately, Quartz and the Atlantic pronounced the homepage dead. In 2014, The Columbia Journalism Review noted, “Less than half of visits to nytimes.com start on the homepage.” Poynter described
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It’s only 150 characters, but it's the first thing people will see when they come to your profile, and it's a great way to pop up in people's searches. Here's how to make it as good as it can be: 1.
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The last time I checked, WhatsApp was not one of the most popular social media apps among journalists. It was trailing Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, and Line by far. Many a journalist have written off this chat app with a disputed 800 million monthly active users after efforts to broadcast through
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As most digital journalists know, Snapchat is a vast and in some ways underutilised tool. Snapchat claims to have over 8 billion users per day - an eye watering number compared to the 2 billion they had only last May. Snapchat has created the Discover channel on their app. These are
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The world has a problem with food. Nine billion mouths will need feeding by 2050. Double the amount of food currently produced will be needed, the UN predict, as more people in more countries are lifted above the breadline. But producing this volume of food using current practices is environmentally
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Unlike the past few years when Build the News focused on hacky concepts and newsroom tools, last weekend’s event went back to basics— telling a story. University students, under the guidance of The Times’ journalists, coders, developers and data analysts, set out to build and tell their stories in
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A team of three Interhacktives triumphed at the recent Build The News event held by The Times.
How-To
By 2019, 80% of all internet traffic will be for video – the online world is far from being only about text and images. One of the most interesting new strands of this video revolution is live-streaming: it offers a unique level of intimacy and immediacy to users. But what
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Got an appetite for edible insects? This grasshopper stir fry serves four people and takes a mere 10 minutes to cook. Recipe courtesy of Grub. Ingredients -60 Grub Grasshoppers -150g pak Choi -100g tenderstem broccoli -75g green beans -75g mangetout -1 red onion, sliced -2 cloves of garlic, diced -2
Tips
Content is uploaded on Internet every second, but unfortunately much of it goes unseen. You might be asking: “what’s the problem?” But the solution is quite simple; everything relies on the SEO (Social Engine Optimization) and social strategy. SEO is the visibility of content in search engines. The higher
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Facebook can be a very valuable tool for traffic for many websites, and mastering an online presence on the social platform is often the difference between life and death of a publication. Recently, Facebook's algorithm has been modified to promote visual content, such as pictures and videos, over