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2018 Online Journalism Awards Finalists and James Foley Award Recipient Announced

2018 Online Journalism Awards Finalists and James Foley Award Recipient Announced

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 [...]

Artificial Intelligence is Coming to Journalism, but Not Everyone is Happy

Artificial Intelligence is Coming to Journalism, but Not Everyone is Happy

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 [...]

Text Still Beats Video When it Comes to News

Text Still Beats Video When it Comes to News

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 [...]

Big Increase in News Consumption via Mobile Internet

Big Increase in News Consumption via Mobile Internet

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 [...]