Journalism World 11 January, 2016

Refugees in Germany launch paper

When Ramy Alasheq was searching last year for a title to give to a newspaper he was helping launch for Arabic-speaking refugees in Germany, the inspiration came from his own journey.

A Syrian-Palestinian refugee, journalist, poet and activist who has asylum in the European nation, Alasheq was at the time at his home in Cologne with his host family.

"They are great and friendly, they give me a lot of love," he told Al Jazeera. "Once, I thanked Cristina, the mother and wife of the family, for everything. She said, 'Don't thank me. I just opened the door'."

The newspaper, he thought, should be called "Abwab", Arabic for doors.

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Navigating new world of eyewitness media

09 January, 2016

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Of all the major news events over 2015 it’s hard to think of one which didn’t feature footage captured by a member of the public. The age of eyewitness media, where anyone with a smartphone and social media account can take the place of professional camera person, has turned breaking news on its head and news organisations are still figuring out how to deal with this explosion in newsworthy material.

Issues of social news gathering, verification, ethics and hoaxes are causing headaches in newsrooms around the world, so to see out the year we spoke to a range of experts about their opinion on the shifting landscape.

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Journalism World 07 January, 2016

Journo crowdfunding campaigns

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In the past, we’ve called them The Big 3.

They hold the distinction of being, as far as we can discern, the only crowdfunding campaigns to raise more than a million euros in seed money for news startups in the history of journalism.

Editors of the Dutch, German and Spanish news startups spoke within a couple days of each other this spring to talk about what worked and led their campaigns to such a potent reaction.

For obvious reasons, we wrote about each of them. Here are some of the things all three crowdfunding campaigns had in common.