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Here are 9 ways to find stories in company accounts (and only three of them involve numbers)

Found a conflict of interest on the last page

This week I’m teaching students on my MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism and MA in Data Journalism  how to find stories in company accounts — so I thought it would be a good time to share just some of the ways that you can use these public documents for story leads and ideas (you can read this post in Russian here).

Here, then, are just 9 ways to find stories in company accounts — and most of them don’t involve any numbers at all. Continue reading

Could the BBC – or Channel 4 – be funded by a tax on web and mobile?

Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced that, from next year,

“prime-time advertising on public television will be phased out, with the lost revenues to be replaced by taxes collected from internet, mobile phone and commercial broadcasting companies Continue reading