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Onboarding in Times of A Pandemic – Insights by Our New Colleagues

Onboarding in Times of A Pandemic – Insights by Our New Colleagues

Dec 2, 2021 | News

If you take a look at this page, you’ll realize that our team has significantly grown – in spite of the global Corona situation. Due to the successful acquisition of new projects, we’ve been able to hire about half a dozen new colleagues. All of them have become proper and indispensable members of our team – even though we haven’t had a single in-person all hands meeting yet (with face-to-face conversations, pizza, drinks, etc.). Needless to say, the process wasn’t 100% smooth, but we’d always put our best foot forward. So here’s a little post dedicated to onboarding in times of a pandemic.

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Synthetic Media: Let’s Keep It Real

Synthetic Media: Let’s Keep It Real

Oct 26, 2021 | Playground, Projects

Being able to generate synthetic media content “at the push of a button” is as fascinating as it is dangerous. On the one hand, there is the significant boost in productivity and creativity. On the other hand, there is the dystopian vision of a technology that fosters disinformation and violates a plethora of rights.

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Augmented Reality Journalism, Drone Journalism, Journalism of Things: A Closer Look at Three New Kinds of Tech-Driven Reporting

Augmented Reality Journalism, Drone Journalism, Journalism of Things: A Closer Look at Three New Kinds of Tech-Driven Reporting

Aug 24, 2021 | News, Playground, Projects

There are those who say that when you are occupied with creating and disseminating fact-based reports dealing with current events, that will always be called journalism – no matter what kind of tools you enlist. However, other people argue that there is a significant difference between writing a standard newspaper article and putting out a multilayered, interactive digital story that features text, pictures, videos, audio, and data repositories. While we hope that there continues to be a common denominator, we tend to agree that there are now indeed very different kinds of journalism, some of them driven by technologies that were in their infancy or not available just a decade ago. In the following post, we will take a closer look at three new (sub)categories of digital reporting that are particularly appealing to us and have played a significant role in recent projects: Augmented Reality (AR) Journalism, Drone Journalism, and Journalism of Things (JoT).

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“It’s a great time to be involved in data-driven journalism” – An Interview with EDJNet’s Chiara Sighele and Lorenzo Ferrari

“It’s a great time to be involved in data-driven journalism” – An Interview with EDJNet’s Chiara Sighele and Lorenzo Ferrari

May 25, 2021 | News, Playground, Projects

The European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet), set up in 2017, is all about “producing and promoting data-driven coverage of European topics”. As of May 2021, it has 29 members (including DW) in 14 different countries, and the EC has just granted a new round of funding. Time for a chat with Chiara Sighele and Lorenzo Ferrari, staff members of the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT), but first and foremost: the main coordinators of EDJNet.

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