Written by Liv Bjerge Laursen
What is happening in the world of news? Where do the world’s media consumers find their news and to what extent do we trust what we read, hear, and see online?<
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report is now out and can be accessed here:
Digital News Report 2019
It has been produced by researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, based on a YouGov survey of over 75,000 online news consumers in 38 countries.
The report covers not only the traditional media and SoMe but also thefast growing podcast media. Recent developments in payment models for online news are discussed as well.
If you are interested in advances in the world of news, this report should give you much to think about. It is published under the Creative Commons licence BY that allows you to share and adapt its contents as long as you give appropriate credit.
The report provides comparative data from many different countries, and the interactive section of their webpage lets you compare levels of trust in a variety of media.
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Written by Thomas Basbøll
There is no shortage of advice about how to become a better, happier academic writer. Not only are there places you can go for a monthly or weekly dose of inspiration, there are vast archives of wisdom out there about everything from sentence structure to time management.
One of the most famous blogs for academic writers is Inger Mewburn’s Thesis Whisperer. As the name suggests, it is mainly directed at doctoral students, but their supervisors do well to read along too. Kim Mitchell has been blogging at Academics Write about her experiences as a writing instructor in a nursing school for about four years now. She has lots of interesting things to say about the relationship between “academic” writing and “professional” practice, many of which also apply to the business school context.
Helen Kara’s blog about research methods and practices is also well worth reading, as are Pat Thompson’s Patter and Rachael Cayley’s Explorations of Style, both of which offer detailed advice on style and structure. Anne-Wil Harzing is widely recognized for her work helping researchers present their publication histories for hiring and promotion purposes. She also maintains a very informative blog about academic writing.
Finally, in addition to running the LSE Impact Blog, Patrick Dunleavy has been writing about writing on his own blog Writing For Research.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug my own blog, Inframethodology, which I try to update once or twice a week with a new post, and which also has a number of stand-alone resources, guides, and videos. I, too, can be found on Twitter.
At the end of the day, advice is what you make of it. Read a little of it as you go, but don’t let it overwhelm you. What we say won’t always be right for you, or work in your particular situation, and sometimes we’re simply wrong. If you follow us over time, you’ll even sometimes find we admit it. The blogosphere is a work in progress. Just like you.
If you have questions or need advice on academic writing, please contact Thomas Basbøll