Eva Mošpánová is a journalist for the Czech public radio, she writes for the iRozhlas.cz, which is a fairly newly developed news website of the broadcasting company.

We spoke with Eva, because she knows the Czech media market, she has covered it in the past writing for Marketing & Media magazine and also worked for other different media outlets.

Czech republic has seen many changes in the media landscape in the last few years, when oligarchs and politicians bought up stakes in traditional media and many journalists left them to start independently operated smaller news operations.

Also the fake news problem has been a huge problem as many alternative media emerged and some of them became widely popular.

After the Czech presidential elections a wave emerged, similar to the one in USA in the end of 2017, when people started publicly sharing that they bought a subscription for a newspaper or online website they trust.

We talked about all of this. Listen to our interview.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/evamospan

Photo of Eva: Khalil Baalbaki (Czech Radio)

Some Zeman supporters attack Czech reporters: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-czech-president-takes-early-lead-runoff-vote-52649799

The Czech Republic's Fake News Problem: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/fake-news-in-the-czech-republic/543591/

The Explainable Rise of Czech Fake News: https://codastory.com/disinformation-crisis/information-war/explainable-rise-of-czech-fake-news

The 'Trump Bump' (more like 'Zeman Bump') moment in Czech media happening right now

Bettina Figl is a reporter at Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung. But she is also a research fellow at The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. There she published a paper about data journalism and small newsrooms.

She talks with us at Check Your Facts podcast about how she managed to find her way into Oxford University and what she found out researching several newsrooms. This may help you implementing or strenghten data driven modules in you newsroom as well.

When Bettina is not writing papers on digital journalism or working for Wiener Zeitung she is organising an event in Vienna called „Aufmacher“ („lead story“). She and her colleagues invite journalists to talk — very casually —  about their job. The best thing: it is free and open for everyone.

As usual we also talk about the media landscape and current issues in the guest’s homecountry which is Austria this time.
Again, you will find many insights on our guest and her work — and even more.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BettinaFigl
Photo credit: Luiza Puiu

Bettina's research: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/bigger-not-always-better-what-we-can-learn-about-data-journalism-small-newsrooms

Explained on Mediashift.org: http://mediashift.org/2018/02/why-small-newsrooms-do-the-best-data-journalism/

Our episode about Snapchat at Le Monde: https://soundcloud.com/checkyourfactspodcast/how-to-do-news-for-generation-z-we-talk-about-le-mondes-snapchat-strategy

Bettina's favorite podcast at the moment: https://soundcloud.com/podwassolldas
David's favorite podcast atm: https://www.recode.net/recode-media-podcast
Marc's favorit podcast atm: https://irlpodcast.org (while Hackable?
 is on holidays https://hackablepodcast.com)

Data Journalism helps small newsrooms

Eva Schulz is a journalist, online video show host, presenter and producer. 

Currently she is hosting Deutschland3000, a Facebook show by German public broadcasters, that covers politics for a millennial audience.

Prior to that, she co-created Hochkant, a Snapchat news channel for 14- to 19-year-olds.

Eva has started blogging very young and her first foreign language as she puts it was HTML.

We had a very deep dive into online video, platforms and formats.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/evaschulz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evaschulz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evaschulz

Deutschland 3000: https://www.facebook.com/Deutschland3000/

Photo credit: Alex Janetzko

Online video: How to spark discussion, not hate

We are David & Marc. We love to talk about everything related to the digitalisation. On this podcast we do this – with journalists & digital media people from all around the world.