Website: http://www.ejo.ch
Director of the European Journalism Observatory since October 2003; Professor of Journalism and Media Management at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano since 2002. Frequent contributor to Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), columnist for Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), Schweizer Journalist (Zurich) and Werbewoche (Zurich).
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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May 12, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
An alarm signal is sounding from Italy. Media researchers there have analysed how misinformation and conspiracy theories spread via social networks, such as Facebook, much faster than news from more reliable sources. A team of researchers,...
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January 16, 2015 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
So many media figures have lost their jobs recently that it seems to be the exception, rather than the rule, when a top journalist, such as Alan Rusbridger, Guardian newspaper editor-in-chief for 20 years, resigns on his own terms. These...
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October 31, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Researchers occasionally make us aware of the insanity of scholarly “productivity“. The publish or perish system young researchers are forced into and the brutal competition they face. Thomas Hanitzsch, of the University of Munich, has...
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September 17, 2014 •
Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Media research in Scandinavian countries is being internationalized, reflecting a Europe-wide trend towards publishing and working across national borders. The number of articles published in international journals by Nordic academics has...
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