Provokativ

16/03/2018

Tips for troublesome interview settings.

Every cinematographer should know how to get the most out of locations and sets. Let's take a look at some ways to elevate any shoot.

14/03/2018

Interesting analysis of how one extreme group switched up the content of its page to boost the most anti-Islam messages.

A BuzzFeed News analysis of data from the social platform has identified the most prolific boosters of material from the far-right party.

28/01/2018

Interesting news experiment, but is crowd-sourced updates the best that Google has to offer local journalism?

The new app lets users post stories, photos and videos about local happenings from their phones, and share them through search tools and social media.

01/01/2018

Journalism predictions for 2018 from Nieman Journalism Lab.

"Unlike technology, culture changes slowly. But when it does, the consequences of these changes stay for a long time."

28/08/2017

Could Facebook really start cracking down on fake news pages?

Facebook is taking steps to solve its fake news problem after initially implying it wasn't a major issue.

22/08/2017

Filming in the forest today north of the Arctic Circle for international news stories. Watch on BBC, STV and in Scotland's Courier newspaper.

14/08/2017

Interesting article... as we work on our News Now Finland project, and continue to develop the homepage.

Last week a new research paper hit the internet from the Engaging News Project on one of my favorite topics: the website redesign. I pay particular attention to website redesigns because of what they tell us about the latest trends in how users experience news online and how we want users to experie...

09/08/2017

Facebook aims to limit the damage of fake news, by rolling out new strategies.

Plus: Surrounding fake news with real news, fake news games, and Kenya faces an election.

13/07/2017

What's in a name? A comma, full stop, possessive apostrophe and another full stop it seems, when talking about Donald Trump's son. The grammar police will love this one!

The reasoning for our styling of “Jr.,’s” is pretty straightforward, even if it drives some people nuts.

04/07/2017

Learning some lessons from the Netherlands, could news organisations change the relationship with their audience via membership programmes as a revenue stream?

At the turn of the century, newspaper executives didn’t need to innovate to keep the cash flowing. Google was still a fledgling company, Facebook hadn’t been founded yet, and profits re…

03/07/2017

Hello Monday! Here's a provokativ story to start your week about how much fake news is out there that you maybe don't even realise you're reading it...

Plus: How information overload makes fake news worse, the similarities between investigative journalists and people who spread conspiracy theories, and a Vox infographic that wasn't.

22/06/2017

Finishing the week writing & editing a news story for STV in Scotland about Finland's 🇫🇮 tradition of free school meals 🍽 Great to start the holiday weekend by sending off some original journalism!