By Matthew Ross The May edition of the Media Literacy Monday webinar took the format of a masterclass featuring Kennedy O’Brien Senior Public Policy Associate at Twitter. Martina Chapman, the National Coordinator of Media Literacy Ireland opened the webinar and provided an overview of the MLI’s mission and the background of the Be Media Smart campaign. After
The JournalismAIinitiative at the London School of Economics has just announced a new programme for ‘small, local, and digital-native newsrooms’—the AI Academy for Small Newsrooms. Created in collaboration with Google News Initiative, the programme is a 6-week free course for small newsrooms (defined as organisations with fewer than 50 employees) on how to introduce AI into their journalism.
By Matthew Ross Della Kilroy, Multimedia Journalist at RTÉ and Shane Creevy, Head of Editorial at Kinzen, have created a four-part podcast series ‘exploring how misinformation spreads in an era of mass communication’. Across these four episodes, the pair discuss the crucial distinctions that exist between different forms of misinformation, talking to people who have fallen
On 14th July, the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) published the Online Media Literacy Strategy. The 104 page document sets an overall objective of supporting ‘organisations to undertake media literacy activity in a more coordinated, wide-reaching, and high quality way over the next 3 years.’The Strategy proposes four approaches to achieving
By Dr. Eileen Culloty Eight months on from the MLI Horizon webinar on Making Sense of Science in Media: Communication and Health, the Celsius Research Group at DCU organised a webinar on Communicating Covid-19. Introduced by Barbara Gormley (DCU) and chaired by Philip Boucher Hayes (RTÉ), the webinar heard from an international panel of leading scientists
News Media is a priority under the new Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027. The JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS call has just been launched and the deadline is August 26th 2021. AIMS The aim of this call is to encourage systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations to improve the viability and competitiveness of professionally produced journalism. It aims to support the testing of
By Matthew Ross Some major takeaways from the annual Digital News Report include that 70% of Irish survey respondents report being interested in the news (beating the UK, North America, and the EU average), that trust in the news in Ireland has risen 5 points in the past year to 53% (also higher than in
The European Commission is looking for all kinds of experts, from academics to practitioners, from experts in the news media business to journalists, and from all corners of Europe. In 2021, a panel of experts on news media will evaluate applications for a call for proposals on Journalism Partnerships, foreseen in June 2021. The panel