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.
October 17, 2016 •
Digital News, Research, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Of all the former socialist countries in Europe, Albania was the most encapsulated – inaccessible not only from the West, but also from Yugoslavia and from the former Soviet Union’s satellites. Even today, the small country with its...
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May 13, 2016 •
Public Relations, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Universities and research institutes are increasingly presenting their own research results, rather than relying on science journalists to interpret and communicate their work. Research is published directly in magazines, blogs, and social...
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April 19, 2016 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Verifying digital photos, streaming TV news and developing 3D visualisations: journalism – along with the battery-powered driverless car and the ‘internet of things’ – is constantly being reinvented in Silicon Valley. The...
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February 3, 2016 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Writing in Der Spiegel online, Sascha Lobo, the German blogger and digital sceptic, recently expressed his displeasure at the rapid spread of “blitz-hatred, bang-stupidity and readiness to violence” openly “spat out” on the web....
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November 13, 2015 •
Public Relations, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Two workshops took place in Berlin recently. Their aim: to bring together researchers and media practitioners to debate the issues that journalism faces today. The conclusion: journalism is facing a brain drain as professionals jump to the...
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September 30, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The preoccupation that we could be drowned by too many news and advertising messages, and that we are “over-newsed and under-informed” may be yesterday’s headache. The challenge for the future is to ensure that we will not...
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August 24, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The role played by social media in the 2011 Arab Spring may have been overestimated by Western observers, but a new report, Media Use in the Middle East, 2015, reveals that platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are changing the...
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August 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Increasing numbers of consumers are using social media platforms to access news according to recent research. One study, by the Pew Research Centre, found that in 2015 the majority (63%) of Facebook and Twitter users sourced news via those...
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August 6, 2015 •
Public Relations, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Foul language has become more and more socially acceptable, even in puritan America. Dean Baquet, the Executive Editor of the New York Times, recently called a journalism professor, who had criticised him for his newsroom’s coverage of...
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