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.
February 7, 2008 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 1, 2008 Researchers Analyze the Iraq Campaign of the US Government There is by now only little dispute that George W. Bush and his administration have lied to the public when, during the run-up of the Second...
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December 7, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist Nr. 10 + 11, 2007, 74 A student group at Columbia University has targeted the journalistic blunders that have hit the headlines. The students tried to find out whatever happened to the field’s “black sheep”,...
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November 22, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist Nr. 10 + 11, 2007, 74 So far, American media seemed the shining example of correction policies: Every newspaper which wants to be taken seriously has a “Corrections Corner” – a column where the newsroom rectifies...
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November 9, 2007 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Studies in Communication Sciences 6/2, 2006, pp. 189-208 EJO-RESEARCH The research perspective presented here is rational choice theory. So far, it has rarely been applied to journalism and journalism research....
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June 27, 2007 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Der Tagesspiegel, June 27, 2007 The Swiss print market is in turmoil: German news magazine Der Spiegel launches a new regional supplement in Switzerland, German publishing giant Springer buys Swiss TV guides, and a freebie has the largest...
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March 23, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 23, 2007 Is the quality of US journalism deteriorating? Have journalists betrayed their principles? Recent data suggest that the critics, some of them famous and very outspoken, might be barking up the wrong...
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March 5, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
EJO RESEARCH How effective are the moral codes of media companies? Double moral standards are a constitutive element of modern societies as they are of their media systems. The values usually extolled by morally upright individuals on...
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March 2, 2007 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
EJO-RESEARCH In the late seventies, Barbara Baerns raised one of most fertile and important research questions in communication science. Ever since, the discussion among specialists has continued unabated: how, especially how successfully...
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June 22, 2006 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Werbewoche Nr. 24, June, 2006 Why bad quality so often wins through in journalism “You cannot drown in shallow waters.” That wisecrack, which used to serve as a business model for Helmut Thoma, former CEO of Germany’s first private...
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