Posts by Vanessa Barford:
Are India and Pakistan a bigger threat than North Korea?
North Korea is dominating media coverage and capturing the attention of world leaders, but the greatest threat of a nuclear war may actually be on the other side of Asia. It’s on the Indian-Pakistan border, according to Matthew Bunn, an expert in...
The challenges of a ‘disrupted’ news industry
“Bad story selection – or in not so-PC terms – dumb, lazy noise.” That’s how Peter Hamby, the head of news at Snapchat, summed up the biggest threat to the media industry at a panel discussion at the Texas Tribune festival on September 23. “The homogeneity of news is...
How dangerous is a nuclear-armed North Korea?
North Korea’s most recent nuclear missile test on Sept. 3 – equivalent to a 6.3 magnitude earthquake – and the U.S. Government’s ramped-up rhetoric – exemplified by President Donald Trump promising “fire and fury” and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis...
Is a journalism museum worth fighting for?
A museum dedicated to the freedom of expression – one of five freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution – called the Newseum, in Washington, D.C., is undergoing a “strategic review” and may have to close due to financial...
Naturally, we had to talk about the state of journalism in #NewHorizonsWPI host country, Bulgaria. Read up on our last panel of the conference here:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-dire-state-of-independent-media-in-bulgaria/
Podcasts as a tool (for audience engagement, as a revenue stream) came up a lot at the #NewHorizonsWPI Conference on 9/24 --
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/dr-ruja-or-how-we-stopped-worrying-about-podcasts-and-embraced-them/
Check out @AEJBulgaria's write up of day 1 at #NewHorizonsWPI:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-big-questions-faced-by-media-new-horizons-in-journalism-conference-day-1/