On this page you will find resources of interest to our Journalism courses. These resources support the work of the ABU in this area and are also useful for research and assignments in a range of other academy training courses.
Resources are updated continuously. You will see the most recently added 50 links and saved files of relevance in this area of study.
- How to write 'Smart Brevity.' Tags: journalism
- Tags: data journalism
- Find your journalism code of ethics for your country. Tags: investigative_journalism journalism
- A few questions for journalists to consider when deciding when to reveal vaccination status when reporting a COVID-19 death. Tags: Ethics journalism
- Publications on fake news and misinformation by Julie Posetti Tags: fake_news misinformation journalism
- About disinformation and journalistic harassment. A case study from the Philippines. Tags: fake_news journalism
- Handbook for verifying fake news and disinformation Tags: fake_news journalism
- DW's tips on fighting fake news and verifying before you post content Tags: fake_news journalism
- Solutions journalism is rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems. It investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, examples of people working toward solutions. It focuses not just on what may be working, but how and why it appears to be working, or alternatively, why it may be stumbling. Using the best available evidence, it delves deep into the how-to’s of problem solving, often structuring stories […]
- The last 12 months have brought into sharp focus the extent to which media freedom is under threat. In the last year, those threats have accelerated due to the pandemic, with unscrupulous regimes introducing oppressive legal measures under the guise of tackling disinformation, using increasingly sophisticated methods to control online information, and continuing their clampdown on critical journalism. Tags: legal defamation Management journalism
- “Puck is a platform for smart, engaging (and, yes, occasionally dishy) journalism owned and operated by the journalists themselves,” says the website, which states that it’s looking to narrow the divide between elite creators and their audience. It raised a US$7 million Series-A funding round from the likes of TPG Capital and 40 North Media, and has execs from Luminary, The Athletic, Vanity Fair and the New York Times managing […]
- The cartoon in this article is a particularly interesting comment on fake news conspiracies. Tags: journalism fake_news
- The continuous penetration of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies into everyday human dealings comes with a high risk of interfering with basic human rights. Recently in Nigeria, one Kabiru Mohammed was arrested by security operatives for allegedly creating and circulating deep fake videos of a wedding ceremony between the president of the country and two female ministers. Tags: fake_news misinformation journalism
- This study interviewed journalists across the United States in 2013 to find out how online and mobile technologies have changed television journalism in the past decade and what new technologies and trends they expect in the future. Interviews with thirteen television journalists indicate that web presence and mobile apps are getting more important in most cases; the use of others’ digital assets for both television broadcast and the web; use […]
- So you’ve gathered all the evidence you need for your investigation, your subject has refused to respond to questions, and the planned release date is looming. Veteran journalists say the final step in your investigation is often the most stressful. Giving the subjects of your investigation a fair chance to respond is, of course, a central tenet of journalism, and the “findings” letter represents the final, formal invitation for them […]
- Tags: journalism
- Tags: scriptwriting journalism
- Tags: scriptwriting journalism
- Data Journalism. This animated graphic tells many stories of the growth and decline of car industries in the world. How many news stories from different angles could you make from this? Tags: journalism
- Using Data visualisation to see what people are searching for Covid topics. Tags: journalism