Website: http://en.ejo.ch
Rukhshona Nazhmidinova's journalism experience includes working with as the Associated Press correspondent in Tajikistan (2003-2004) and assistant to the editor at the Central Asian Bureau of Agence France-Presse (2004-2006). Currently, she is working on her PhD dissertation at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Her research interests include communication strategies via new media.
May 25, 2017 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Media Economics, Short stories •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Meduza, a Russian news website based in Latvia, is pioneering a new way to advertise. Audiences are challenged to participate in a game in which they manage a hypothetical Russian media company. When players (almost inevitably) fail they...
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September 18, 2014 •
Media Economics, Specialist Journalism •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
German newspapers are attempting to reach international audiences, and increase their readership and influence, by publishing in the English language. Handelsblatt, a leading business daily newspaper, is the latest to start an online...
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March 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
This article has been amended. A newspaper editor in Tajikistan is locked in a legal battle with academics over her right to publish an opinion piece. Olga Tutubalina, editor of the country’s most popular newspaper, Asia-Plus wrote an...
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December 20, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Is Putin’s swift reorganization of RIA Novosti really an exercise of strengthening control or is it merely a rebranding strategy planned well in advance? The EJO’s Rukhshona Nazhmidinova looks at the reactions and implications to the...
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December 17, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Watergate forever changed American journalism. That’s how many American journalists, especially political reporters, remember the relentless, investigative reporting that brought down Richard Nixon. After Watergate (1972-1974) there was...
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November 20, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
On October 18, after a violent anti-migrant rally in Moscow’s Birulevo district, the radio station “Vesti FM,” part of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (ВГТРК), launched the Migrant Moscow (Москва...
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June 25, 2013 •
Public Relations •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
YouTube is full of wedding videos featuring fathers dancing badly, and possibly enthusiastically at their child’s wedding. But in Tajikistan, authorities banned YouTube a week after a video of the president dancing and singing...
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March 15, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
After the Internet has robbed news media of a large portion of their revenue, it has set a new, higher goal –to provide hard news. While many news organizations today, including the BBC, are continuing to lay off journalists in the hope...
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January 16, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
A new contract between Instagram and its users will take effect Saturday (Jan. 19), and the far from smooth transition in shifting contracts has taken the photo sharing service to the courthouse. As lawyers, concerned users and service...
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