Website: http://www.ejo.ch
European Journalism Observatory co-founder and until 2018 Professor of Journalism and Media Management at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Frequent contributor to Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) and Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), as well as to the specialist publications Schweizer Journalist and Der österreichische Journalist.
June 4, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Die Furche, May 28, 2009 In his latest book, American media activist Robert McChesney envisions a dark future for American newsgathering. The author devises a U.S. government demanding “the reduction of international reporting, the...
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May 27, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, Nr. 4 + 5/2009 Which business models will finance quality journalism in the future? A look at strategies from the U.S. How are journalists to survive? Plans to rescue journalism from Wall Street’s grasp are...
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April 25, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 17, 2009 Do corrections columns strengthen the news media’s credibility? A frequent victim of journalistic error, Barack Obama may have set records in name-botching. On his blog RegretTheError.com, media...
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April 6, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, 2+03/2009 Michael Haller and Norbert Küpper are research pioneers who, with the help of an eye-tracking device, analyze eye movements that occur while readers peruse newspapers and Web pages. In the latest issue of...
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March 10, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Die Furche, February 6, 2009 David Montgomery threw in the towel. The “locust investor” was recently forced to sell a portion of his press empire, including flagship publication the Berliner Zeitung. Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune and...
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March 10, 2009 •
Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Die Furche, March 4, 2009 When it comes to influencing the political agenda, speaking up for society’s disadvantaged, or drawing attention to deplorable circumstances, Austrian journalists differ greatly from their German colleagues. A...
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February 26, 2009 •
Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Tagesspiegel, February 15, 2009 Rapidly declining advertising, downsized editorial departments, readers scampering to the Internet – the U.S. press is trapped in a downward spiral. Two years ago David Carr, a prominent media journalist...
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February 20, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche, December 11. 2008 How will the business media handle our current recession? Is the fall of the West imminent? Is the end of the world near? One might assume, given the media’s preference for apocalyptic conjectures, that...
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February 20, 2009 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 19, 2008 Is the development of the press in the Bay Area a glimpse at what’s in store for journalism? Anyone who has been away from the Bay Area over the last few years would hardly recognize the...
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