The Newsreel Project

Are you interested in training journalists on specific fields like:

🤳🏼📸Storytelling in Social Media
⚖️🤝Improving Democratic Sensibility,
🌍📝Foreign Coverage,
🤖🧑‍💻AI, Robot Journalism and Algorithms,
📣🕵️Debunking Disinformation?

Check our e-learning materials as well as the connected teaching guides. You can reach them here:

E-learning courses: https://newsreel.pte.hu/e_learning

Teaching guides: https://newsreel.pte.hu/teaching_guides

📣🕵️ Do societies realise its importance? If not society as a whole, journalists and fact-checkers certainly do realise. Debunking “is crucial”. “Democracy in general is in danger”, believes Fernando Esteves, Polígrafo, the Portuguese fact-checking website. As part of the Newsreel2 project, senior journalists and editors from five countries (Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Portugal and Romania) were interviewed on the specifics of the debunking activities in their countries, risks associated with the process, training and education programmes related to the field. Journalists play a crucial role in understanding the dynamics of their societies and can provide a clue about the debunking need and on how it is perceived by the audiences.

Check our brand new article on debunking disinformation here: https://newsreel.pte.hu/news/unprecedented_challenges_debunking_disinformation

"Social media are only partly to blame for the spread of fake news, and the direct access to fake news websites is limited between 1% and a maximum of 10% of the online public.
Thus, despite the limited exposure, some fake news received a wide attention and benefit from an important level of public trust (Tsfati et alii, 2020). People hear about the fake news, but they don’t know or see the original publication, so traditional media is responsible for fake news getting into the public’s attention."

A new article by Marian Popovici (University of Bucharest) on the role of media in spreading fake news ❎ℹ️ Read the full article here: https://newsreel.pte.hu/news/role_media_spreading_fake_news

On 28th April, the NEWSREEL2 project and the Pécs Academic Committee organized a book launching event to introduce the book with the title of 'New Skills for Journalists: Comparative perspectives from Europe'. The volume, which was published by the Transylvanian Museum Society, contains the most important research results of the NEWSREEL & NEWSREEL2 project. Thank you for the participation and the interesting discussion!

Photo credits: Rajnai Richárd

"Nevertheless, in the case of AI, it might be the case that the future of regulation and self-regulation is already here. Content Authenticity Initiative, a coalition founded in 2019 around Adobe that now has more than 1 000 members, announced on April 3rd enhanced technical support for users and for content creators. This support, based on open-source tools, includes improved metadata on ‘AI-generated ingredients’, and ‘do not train’ commands for content creators that want to keep AI away from their audio-visual products."

A brand new article on the connection of AI 🤖🧑‍💻 and debunking 📣🕵️written by Raluca Radu & edited by Manuela Preoteasa available on our project website! Click here if you want to know more: https://newsreel.pte.hu/news/ai_changing_common_practices_unprecedentedly_disrupting_copyright_and_truth

Do not forget to join our NEWSREEL programme tomorrow! 😉📗

On behalf of the NEWSREEL2 project and the Pécs Academic Committee, we would like to invite you to the next event of the Communication & Media Studies Working Committee that will be held at 14:00 on 28th April in the centre of the Pécs Academic Committee. You can see the details in the attached invitation. During the programme we will discuss the main project results with some of the authors and invited journalists, and introduce the book that was published with the title of New Skills for Journalists: Comparative perspectives from Europe. The volume contains the most important research results of the NEWSREEL & NEWSREEL2 project. The programme will be in Hungarian, but the book was written in English and it is available here: https://api.eda.eme.ro/server/api/core/bitstreams/086e602f-2966-4510-8891-5e4eafe7d28c/content?fbclid=IwAR1rDURZsGPPVTAT712chXlyzBp7GNQgCN4dVNsUb8IA6Jw0GaJPZ6xJ_Ys

We welcome everyone who is interested in our project results!

The project team also organized the last transnational project meeting on 31st March at the ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon to evaluate the project and discuss the remaining tasks. This was the last occasion for the members to meet in person in the framework of NEWSREEL2. However, we really hope that we can continue our work in an upcoming project in the near future!

The final multiplier event of the NEWSREEL2 project was held at the ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon on 30th March! 🎉

During the first half of the conference, the project members introduced the e-learning & teaching materials they developed together in the framework of the three-year project.

The programme was opened by Ana Pinto Martinho & Miguel Crespo from the ISCTE. After that Annamária Torbó (University of Pécs) introduced the main results of NEWSREEL2. During the section, partners presented six from the nine professional fields and the developed materials, including the recently published teaching guides connected to each field.

Antonia Matei & Raluca Radu (University of Bucharest) talked about the materials on verifying and analysing fake news & debunking disinformation. Klára Smejkal (Masaryk University) presented the field of improving democratic sensibility, and Rita Glózer (University of Pécs) focused on storytelling in social media. Dominik Speck (Erich Brost Institue) concentrated on the field of foreign coverage, while AI & Journalism was introduced by Ana Pinto Martinho (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon).

The central field of the event was the connection of Artificial Intelligence and journalism, therefore Nic Newman from the Reuters Institute held an awareness-raising keynote presentation about the threats and opportunities. Furthermore, the audience could hear two interesting round-table discussions with journalism educators and journalists.

Thank you for all of the participants who contributed to the successful implementation of the conference. We are especially grateful to Ana Pinto Martinho, Miguel Crespo & the students of the ISCTE for organizing such a wonderful final event!

In the representation of NEWSREEL2 team, we would like to invite you to the final multiplier event of the project with the title of New Skills and Teaching Challenges for the Next Generation of Journalists: Presenting NEWSREEL2 Outcomes and Discussing AI and Journalism. The event will take place at the ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal on the 30th of March.

During the full-day event the project team will present the main outputs that were developed in the framework of the project. The central field of the event is AI and journalism, therefore there will be a keynote presentation by Nic Newman from the Reuters Institute about the threats and opportunities, as well as two round-table discussions with journalism educators and journalists.

The full programme is available here: https://newsreel.pte.hu/news/invitation_final_multiplier_event_newsreel2

Informed by the centuries-old tradition of newspaper illustrations, but mainly reflecting the generic characteristics of the autobiographic graphic novel, comics reportage developed at the intersection of journalistic practice and comics drawing. The genre became popular in both the North American Comics, and Francophone bande dessinée. The NEWSREEL article written by Gyula Maksa describes the (trans)media genre of comics reportage and some of the frontiers of the phenomenon. ✏️🦸

If you interested in the topic, click on this link: https://newsreel.pte.hu/news/comics_reportages_and_expat_graphic_novels

Or you can also read it in German on the site of the Europäisches Journalismus-Observatorium | EJO: https://de.ejo-online.eu/ressortjournalismus/comic-reportagen-und-expat-grafikromane?fbclid=IwAR0RnYpRgk8eiDuR4LyuRsiR-YoFOiGagzJZrBM-mKVQNipJv0VVxF8R9Ic

There are 8 billion people in the world, around 66% have a smartphone, and most of them use a device with Android or IOS, so they have access to the usage of voice assistants. According to some surveys, considering all the devices, 45% of the Internet users worldwide use voice commands and voice search. And where do news stand in this picture? 🖲🎙

If you want to know more, read the full article on our project website: https://newsreel.pte.hu/news/are_you_talking_me_voice_activated_devices_and_journalism