Innovations in Journalistic Tools

Quick and Catchy: How a Lebanese Media Outlet Captures Audience With Explainer Journalism

Run by a team of journalists, researchers, designers and social media experts in Lebanon, Megaphone aims to cover underreported issues and engage young audiences. Using cards helped to achieve this goal.

New Podcast: Three Ways How Academics and Journalists Can Work Together

In the third episode of the Journalism Breakthroughs podcast series, Ian Cook and Dumitrita Holdis take a look at three different innovations that bridge academia and journalism: how students can become journalists, how journalists can build on academics’ research, and how scholars and journalists can work together.

How Journalists in Syria Track COVID-19 in a Sea of Misinformation

Panic and misinformation make it hard for journalists to get the correct information in Syria, where the government retains a firm grip on the media. Nevertheless, some of them found methods, unused before, to keep track of the cases.

How Salud con Lupa Has Raised the Standard of Health Reporting in Latin America

Started as a Facebook group, it has grown into a digital platform covering public health issues. It is the only Spanish-language project selected by the Poynter Institute’s Checking Fact Innovation Challenge in the United States and the Facebook Journalism Project. For its founder, Fabiola Torres, to think about public health is to think about collective wellbeing. In a middle of a pandemic, that is more than a theoretical statement.

Cómo Salud con Lupa está elevando el estándar de la investigación de temas sanitarios en Latinoamérica

Comenzó como un grupo de Facebook y hoy es un medio digital especializado en temas de salud pública y el único proyecto en español en ser seleccionado en el Fact Checking Innovation Challenge, organizado por el Instituto Poynter y el Facebook Journalism Project. Para su fundadora, Fabiola Torres, pensar en salud pública es pensar en el bienestar colectivo. Y eso, en medio de una pandemia, es más que una declaración teórica.