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  1. With the law on your side, it still takes determination to get the story

    Freedom of information laws in many countries now help journalists to access government data, but mechanisms are needed to ensure they work and journalists still need persistence to find what they’re looking for.

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  2. Arts and culture for digital audiences: Experiment and make it personal

    How the internet is democratising culture, and ways in which the digital audience for the arts can be expanded, was the focus of a fascinating day during the Digital Cities 2016 week in Birmingham.

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  3. ‘Shakespeare – as you like it’: The making of a season

    What goes into curating a season of broadcast programmes and events? And what should a themed season aim to achieve for a broad audience? Keeren Flora talked to Jonty Claypole, director of BBC Arts, about mounting the ambitious BBC Shakespeare Festival.

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  4. Faking it: All the news that’s fit to share

    An explosion of ‘fake news’ during the recent US election has accelerated the debate about how to respond to false information online. Collaboration between social media and mainstream news companies might be the answer, suggests Mark Frankel.

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  5. Trust Me I’m a Doctor: The results

    In a previous post, Alex Freeman described the complex production cycle behind BBC Two's Trust Me I’m a Doctor. Here she answers questions about on-air results and off-air response.

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