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This is the End for the Press Photographer, Right?
Having just spent a semester at the Reuters Institute, Oxford, thinking about the journalism profession, three ideas have dominated my thoughts: Could online picture galleries save the press...
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Shutter Bugged: Can Photojournalism Survive?
As part of our series celebrating ten years of the EJO, award-winning photojournalist Hazel Thompson speaks to Marcello Foa. Thompson’s work has appeared in several publications including The New York...
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Research: Is Digitalisation Killing Photojournalism?
Photojournalism is a threatened profession, according to new research. Over the last two decades digitalisation has led to the most fundamental changes since the invention of photography. New...
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DIG Investigative Journalism Awards 2017
DIG Awards: call for entries The city of Riccione, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, will host the next edition of the DIG Awards, the international journalism award and festival focusing on investigative...
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How Video is Changing the News in the Czech Republic
DVTV, a popular independent online news site, is one of two Prague-based sites reinventing news in Czech Republic: its content is entirely video-based. News organisations in the Czech Republic have...
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How to Create News Videos that go Viral on Social Media
Vice News video report on the August 2017 Charlottesville riots, viewed nearly six million times. Hard news videos, particularly about politics, are the most successful online, followed by videos about...
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Simple Yet Sophisticated: How Hungary’s Pro-Government Media Use Images
Poster forming part of government propaganda campaign accusing the EU of seeking to force Hungary to accept migrants. The caption reads “You have a right to know what Brussels is up to!” The Hungarian...
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How Ukrainian media avoid “shiny things syndrome”
Ukrainian journalists are harnessing the techniques of gamification and visualisation and putting them to good use in their storytelling. The creative use of images helps this Platfor.ma feature...
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“The Lockdown Tapes”– highlights from past DIG investigative journalism...
DIG Awards, a festival and competition devoted to showcasing the best international investigative journalism in video format, is offering the public “The Lockdown Tapes” – a playlist of documentaries...
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How Covid-19 is reshaping visual storytelling in Ukraine
Doctors and nurses rushed off their feet, patients hooked up to ventilators, masked shoppers reaching for hand sanitisers and toilet paper, and tense government briefings are just some of the...
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