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.
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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July 28, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The only way to respond to the ever-speaking, often-misleading and hyper-reacting world of Internet propaganda, it appears, is to establish a fact-checking website. These sites are set up to challenge spam, propaganda, misinformation and...
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July 25, 2014 •
Digital News, Public Relations •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Traditional media has become less relevant to public relations professionals, according to a new survey of European communications specialists. Most respondents said they prefer to convey their message using mobile online channels or via...
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June 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford is scathing about the role and function of journalism schools. Speaking at Ryerson University in Toronto, Picard said that in an environment...
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May 12, 2014 •
Press Freedom, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Internet gurus and serious researchers have had great expectations that the internet will give us new freedoms and the potential for democratization. Sadly, the empirical findings provided by two American researchers, Karin Deutsch...
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April 24, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Stephan Russ-Mohl outlines some of the major initiatives needed urgently in the media if the currently discredited ‘European Project’ is to be revived. Should this article just be a series of empty pages? Because let’s face it, there...
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