Journalism

"As the saying goes, less is more. The same goes for words. Listen as Politico and Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei shares what he's learned leading two media companies -- and how to radically rethink the way you write to keep people's attention in a distracted digital world."

"Ian Yee is the deputy executive editor and producer of R.AGE, an international award-winning documentary journalism team based in Malaysia. The team specializes in investigative journalism, and is perhaps best known for its "Predator in My Phone" series, which helped expose the imminent criss of online child sexual grooming in Malaysia. It's latest investigative project, "Student/Trafficked", has already spurred action among various government agencies to tackle the trafficking of students through bogus Malaysian colleges. Ian calls R.AGE's work "impact journalism", because their projects aren't just about exposing problems and issues, but also providing clear action campaigns for the public to play an active role in solving those problems. These projects have helped the team win 18 major awards over the past two years, including the World Young Reader Prize, World Digital Media Awards, Asian Media Awards, United Nations Malaysia Award, and Malaysia's top journalism prize, the Kajai Award."

"Where do we get our news? Where do they get it from? How long are news outlets really taking to process and analyze the information being presented as news to us? We rely on journalists to keep us informed, but modern journalism relies on us for clicks, views and shares. An experiment in online, local, crowd-funded, ad-free journalism boldly proclaims that news can indeed be shared in a non-reactionary, non-sensationalized and meaningful way. Here’s how."

"UNESCO’s support for journalism education is underpinned by a strong conviction that professional journalistic standards are essential to bring out the potential of media systems to foster democracy, dialogue and development. ... The model curricula and handbooks are designed to be used as an entire course, or can be used in bespoke ways to suit the media landscape and the needs of journalism students at the local level. They have been developed by experts who are at the cutting edge of journalism education and are presented in a variety of formats and languages"