November 9, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Philip Di Salvo
Journalists arrested, netizens remanded to trial. A petition calls on EU authorities to intervene as the media in Athens faces a new season of menace. Economic crisis is bearing down hard in the Hellenic country. Ongoing violence continues...
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November 6, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Will Rupert Murdoch withdraw from the United Kingdom and instead aggrandize his media empire in the U.S.? Ken Doctor, an American media economist and columnist for the Nieman Lab at Harvard University has speculated about such a move. In...
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November 5, 2012 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Karen Torben-Nielsen
According to the latest 2012 Swiss Social Report, there is no generational conflict in Switzerland – the old and the young simply do not communicate. Following the publication of the report, television news program “10 vor 10”, asked...
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October 27, 2012 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Matthias Schmidt
*EJO Student Contribution A new study from the University of Mainz shows that media coverage of banks is pro-cyclical. This means media outlets dramatize their business coverage in good and bad times – thus strengthening the market’s...
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October 22, 2012 •
Media and Politics •
by Michal Kus
New study examines the current situation for journalists in a rapidly changing media environment. “Journalism in Change,” a new study which aims to compare recent variations within journalism cultures, combines the efforts of...
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October 19, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Michael Wise
Third-annual report brings news of progress despite the prevalence of new and sophisticated threats to Internet freedom. Freedom House’s newest report, “Freedom on the net 2012: A global assessment of Internet and digital media,”...
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October 11, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Jonila Godole
According to the newest Media Sustainability Index (MSI), Albania showed improvement in 2012, however the lack of independent outlets and unbiased journalists is cause for alarm. The newest International Research and Exchanges Board’s...
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October 4, 2012 •
Media and Politics •
by Hana Biriczova
Though contemporary Czech journalism has evolved, journalism students cling to the memories of the First Republic’s great writers, such as Karel Čapek, Karel Poláček, and Jaroslav Hašek. The Czech journalistic tradition is still...
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September 30, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Dariya Orlova and Victoria Sydorenko
Ukrainian journalists bemoan deteriorating media freedom as new challenges complicate the issue. As Ukraine’s hosting duties began for the 64th World Newspaper Congress (WNC) in early September, the country’s unstable media...
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