Fields of Coverage
May 20, 2013 by Vadim Makarenko
Is there a European reader? One who wants to understand the lives of the people living in bordering countries, who wants to know how the continent is faring? Newspapers such as the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal have international readers, but they tend to mainly cover business and economic issues aimed at international elites. No one has tried to reach out to the ordinary European citizen.
In January 2012 six major European dailies — Le Monde, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, La Stampa, El País and Gazeta Wyborcza — decided to launch Europa, their own European project. Born as a result of a dinner conversation Europa is nothing like readers have seen before.
The project is bold, innovative, cheap. Through a... read more
Media Economics
May 8, 2013 by Philip Di Salvo
A new study reveals that students in the U.S. are eager to consume news on digital devices but only when they don’t have to pay for it. They are however more willing to pay for magazine content online. Steve Collins and Tim Brown at the University of Central Florida and Michael Rabby at Washington State University Vancouver asked 452 students at an unnamed large public university in the southeastern U.S. about their digital reading habits in fall 2010 and spring 2011 when the iPad and iPad2 were released.
According to the researchers, 73.9 percent of participants... read more
New Media & Web 2.0
April 23, 2013 by Antonio Rossano
A new website has harnessed the power of data journalism to illustrate how, when and where journalists have been threatened in Italy.
Italian graphic designer Isacco Chiaf and journalists Jacopo Ottaviani and Andrea Fama have used data journalism tools to narrate stories of journalists who have been harassed in their project and website, “Is it really worth it? Stories of (Italian)... read more
Ethics & Quality
April 10, 2013 by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Media researchers and journalists in busy newsrooms have spent decades ignoring each other. Anyone who tries to bring the two together has to work out how to combine the ordered, stately pace of academia with the sound and fury of modern media output.
Now, the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM) is launching another attempt. For two days this month in Winterthur, members of the SACM will deal with “Transdisciplinary”... read more
Press Freedom
May 17, 2013 by Ido Liven
On a rather ordinary June day in 2010 a news item appeared on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news website. The headline read “Who Are You, Mister X? ‘The Prisoner With No Name And Identity’.” Quoting an unnamed source in Israel’s Prison Service, the report told of a man whose identity is unknown to the prison staff held in a special cell in a maximum-security jail... read more
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Media Politics
May 3, 2013 by Tina Bettels
Media regulators in Germany, Austria and Switzerland believe that they should be independent from the government, but do not necessarily want more interaction with the public, according to a wide ranging study into the attitudes of media watchdogs.
Marlis Prinzing at the Macromedia University for Media and Communication, Cologne, Germany and Roger Blum at the University of Bern, Switzerland have surveyed ombudsmen, members of press councils, and broadcasting councils as well as members of... read more
Fields of Coverage
April 16, 2013 by EJO
The network of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is growing: From April, the responsibility for its English platform will be shared between our new partners, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and the University of Lugano where the EJO was founded in 2004.
This new partnership will help the EJO... read more
Ethics & Quality
May 16, 2013 by Antonio Rossano
“Teaching the fish how to walk: five things old media can learn from new media” is the title of the keynote speech given by Mathew Ingram, Canadian technology writer and the keynote speaker at the International Festival of Journalism held in Perugia on 26th April (for the full video click here).
Ingram sets out five key points through which he tells the story of our days and illustrates what the media, journalists and, above all, editors must and can do to maintain their readership. They are summed up as: 1) Be open. Practice collaborative, transparent journalism. 2) Give credit. Always refer to and credit sources. 3) Be human. Close the gap between reporter and journalist.4)Accept news is a process, not a product.4) Be focused. Be... read more
New Media & Web 2.0
April 26, 2013 by Meera Selva
Old fashioned evening television bulletins are still more popular than websites for foreign news, and audiences are more interested in foreign news than they believe they are, according to research by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
The report highlights the importance of carefully selected television news at a time when social media networks have been criticised for spreading misinformation over major international events such as the bombings during the Boston Marathon. Even The Associated Press, a major news wire that prides itself on verifying... read more
