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REUTERS INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT ’13-’14
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coverage, and a lack of personal stories. The
audience heard how the crisis is primarily
treated as a financial issue, with most
coverage in business sections, provided by
domestic journalists rather than foreign
correspondents.
‘The number of lay-offs is immense and
its impact can be seen on a daily basis
in the coverage.’
Vadim Makarenko
DIGITAL NEWS
CONSUMPTION
Panellists: Nic Newman (Digital Media
Strategist and Research Associate, RISJ),
Juan Señor (Partner at Innovation
Media Consulting Group),
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Assistant
Professor of Communications, Roskilde
University (RUC), Denmark, and RISJ
Research Fellow), David Levy
Panellists discussed understanding news
consumers, how newsrooms and editors
were adapting to digital news consumption
and the relative importance of social media.
All maintained that news organisations
needed to rethink what they are doing in
order to respond to the reality of digital news
consumption.
‘News journalism is the wine,
not the bottle’
Juan Señor, Partner at Innovation
Media Consulting Group
‘Journalists have to be in a
permanent state of beta’
Juan Señor, Partner at Innovation
Media Consulting Group
MORAL MAZE:
‘JOURNALISM COARSENS,
SIMPLIFIES, AND DISTORTS
POLITICS (AND THE NEW
JOURNALISM WON’T BE
ANY BETTER)
Chair: John Lloyd
Panellists: Jean Seaton (Professor,
Westminster University), Michael
Parks (Professor, Annenberg School for
Communication and Journalism, USC),
Paul Taylor (European Affairs
Editor, Thomson Reuters)
Witnesses: Abdalla Hassan (Egypt),
Anne Achte (Finland), Arijit Sen (India),
Daniel Ovidiu Popica (Romania),
Gabriela Jacomella (Italy/ South
Sudan), Hrovje Krešić (Croatia),
Bei Jiao (China)
Based on the format of the BBC radio show
Moral Maze, this interactive session sought to
discuss, from a multi-country perspective, the
role of traditional and new journalism in politics.
Ownership of news organisations, state control,
changes in technology, and the commercial
viability of news were recurrent themes.
‘Media ownership is casting its shadow
over journalism in India…a handful of
people close to politicians are calling
the shots’
Arijit Sen, Senior Editor, CNN-IBN, India
‘The reduction of news offices and
journalists is made worse by the
myopic vision of newspaper owners
in Croatia’
Hrvoje Krešić, TV reporter at RTL
Hrvatska, Croatia
‘The number of investigative
journalists has been reduced from
300 to less than 100 within the
last five years’
Bei Jiao, reporter for South China
Morning Post