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.
April 10, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Media researchers and journalists in busy newsrooms have spent decades ignoring each other. Anyone who tries to bring the two together has to work out how to combine the ordered, stately pace of academia with the sound and fury of modern...
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March 8, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Due to the four languages, the sophisticated federalism and the direct democracy, and – last not least – due to a booming advertising branch in the „island of wealth“, Switzerland’s media landscape has flourished and ripened to...
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March 4, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In a recent post we discussed the merits and limits of press freedom rankings. One of the rather sad facts is that newsrooms rarely ask how such rankings are created. Researchers seem to be more interested in this essential methodological...
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March 1, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Spiegel Online’s pre-election coverage last week was not wrong, yet somehow it missed the decisive point in its pull quote: “A clown, a billionaire, an apparatchik and a professor who understands nothing of politics: One of these men...
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February 1, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
“Reporters Without Borders“ has once again published its annual Press Freedom Index. According to the ranking, Finland remains the global “front runner,” followed by the Netherlands, Norway, and Luxembourg. In the European Union,...
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November 19, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
How have the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal covered Murdoch’s News of the World hacking scandal?Alessia Borrè of the University of Lugano has dedicated her bachelor thesis to this question. Making a direct comparison is...
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November 6, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Will Rupert Murdoch withdraw from the United Kingdom and instead aggrandize his media empire in the U.S.? Ken Doctor, an American media economist and columnist for the Nieman Lab at Harvard University has speculated about such a move. In...
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August 11, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It’s not every day that an American trade journal like the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) shows serious interest in something happening outside the U.S. Recently, however, the journal dedicated a long story to Scandinavian countries....
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June 26, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Pensioned journalists have created online news sites, thus becoming competitors to their former employers. It seems legacy media have not yet learned to use the potential of experienced seniors. Within the last two years, Swiss journalists...
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