January 5, 2010 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Kate Nacy
Paris-based NGO Reporters without Borders cites war and disputed elections as most substantial threats to journalists. The close of 2009 marks the close of an especially grim year in journalism. The number of murdered journalists rose 26...
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December 31, 2009 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
A study conducted by Prof. Roger Bohn and Dr. James Short of the University of California at San Diego dispels the notion that visually stimulating forms of media are driving the death of the written word. Of the 100,500 words they consume...
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December 16, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Austrians are all too familiar with the unfavorable media attention focused on their Swiss neighbors, for as the Austrians learned, once the electorate sheers obstreperously from the consensus of “political correctness“ on which...
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December 12, 2009 •
Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
Editor & Publisher, a century-old magazine chronicling the peaks and valleys of the newspaper industry, will slip from the media landscape by the end of this year. The small magazine, serving 10,000 subscribers and 800,000 unique...
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December 6, 2009 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed since the Berlin Wall came down, and, together with it, the Iron Curtain dividing Europe. In Germany, media reports on the event made it seem as though the wall came down only yesterday....
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November 29, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Despite the delicate financial state of the news media, jouralism schools seem to be thriving. In fact, the education sector is perhaps the only area of journalism maintaining a healthy business model. In an article published in The...
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November 28, 2009 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
As 2009 comes to a close, the various problems afflicting the newspaper industry have hardly subsided, although several plans aimed at improving the state of affairs were spawned. Pay walls, micro-payments, cost-cutting initiatives, online...
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November 24, 2009 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
“Worlds of Journalisms,” a collaborative project conducted by journalism researchers across the globe, releases data for download on the Web. A comparative study aimed at examining journalism cultures across nations, news...
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November 24, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
“Covering the Crisis,” a conference organized by the EJC, focuses on the media’s role in the financial crisis. Colossal failures in predicting the crash and reporting on Wall Street lie at the center of discussion. In her...
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