SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed a concerning trend in South Korean media: the gradual reduction of dedicated science sections and specialized science reporting teams in newsrooms across the country. The Korea Science Journalists Association (KSJA) released these findings on September 25 as part of its “Survey on the Current State [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Worry and disappointment over press reports that detail the modus operandi and implements used to facilitate suicide deaths continue to rage on, but critics say nothing much has been done to improve the situation. Shin Eun-jung, the deputy head of the Korea Suicide Prevention Center, was present at a [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Finalists for the 2018 Online Journalism Awards, representing a wide range of local and international media, nonprofit, public, academic and emerging technology organizations, were announced today by the Online News Association. Thirteen of the awards come with $58,500 in prize money, courtesy of John S. and James L. Knight [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Two major South Korean web portals – Naver and Daum – have introduced artificial intelligence mechanisms that can recommend news articles to viewers. Article arrangement is a crucial part of the news editing process, and considering that Naver and Daum are two of the most popular platforms for South [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – We’re entering the era of virtual reality. Surrounded by hundreds of entertainment devices that stimulate multiple senses at once, reading, a single-sense experience, may seem mundane. However, a recent study has shown otherwise, revealing that news readers prefer text over video for their online news consumption. The study was [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – An experiment has been conducted to see if readers could discern the difference between articles written by robots and humans. In the study, participants were shown five articles written by robots about a baseball game. The results revealed that only 46 percent of the respondents could tell that they [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans’ consumption rate of news coverage through public TV networks in 2014 dropped to 84.7 percent from 93.8 percent in 2013, according to a survey of 5,061 Koreans over 19 about Korea’s media consumption in 2014 that was published by the Korea Press Foundation on January 30. The rate [...]