Website: http://en.ejo.ch/
Meera Selva is a researcher at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and editor of the English language European Journalism Observatory website.
May 7, 2014 •
Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
If banks are functioning well, they should be invisible in the media. Stories about them should be hidden away in the back pages of general newspapers, of interest only to shareholders and investors. In recent years, they have been only...
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January 15, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Meera Selva
News will continue to go digital. People are accessing news on smart phones and tablets: journalists and advertisers will have to repackage their words and images to fit these new formats. Journalism.co.uk asked industry experts for their...
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November 19, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Why do countries feel the need to own a news channel? To inform their citizens about the world, or to inform the world about their citizens? A seminar organized by the BBC World Service, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
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October 4, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Meera Selva
This week has seen the strained relationships between some of Britain’s newspapers and the politicians who want to regulate them. In a new series, the EJO presents a summary of the main developments through a series of web links, with a...
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September 27, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
On a crisp autumn day a group of academics gathered in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to discuss what they could do to protect the future of journalism. Potsdamer Platz was one of Europe’s greatest meeting places and it seemed a fitting...
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September 8, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Mark Thompson, President and CEO of the New York Times, said the newspaper industry could take lessons from Hollywood in how to generate several sources of revenue from one product. In his first major speech since taking up his post at the...
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August 19, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
It’s clear by now that technology is both saving and destroying journalism. The Internet, tablets, smart phones have decimated the print media’s advertising-dependent business models but had also helped journalists reach new...
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July 26, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Meera Selva
Governments in 2012 have attacked journalists, created new laws to kill off new independent digital media, and sparked off a huge diplomatic row over teddy bears, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
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June 21, 2013 •
Media Economics •
by Meera Selva
Audiences want news on their computers, their tablets and their mobile phones and are finally beginning to show a willingness to pay for it, according to a new report on digital news. The report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of...
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