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.
June 15, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
There’s been a recent revival of trials attempting to integrate Turkey into the EU, yet advocates of such an action should perhaps take a closer look. Unfortunately, Western media rarely report on the harassment doled out to members of...
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May 29, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A new study examining recent press coverage of the ongoing Greek debt crisis shows that most newspapers in Italy, Britain, and France featured biased reporting of events. Cristina Marconi, an Italian journalist and Fellow at the Reuters...
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March 4, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
There’s a selection of people in the media industry who’ll say that professionals fall from heaven. Some claim only natural talent, not journalistic education, is needed for a news career. Media research is similarly considered...
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February 24, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
What else must happen before one of the world’s most powerful media moguls resigns? Rupert Murdoch does not hold a public office like Christian Wulff, the former German president, or Philipp Hildebrand, now ex-president of the Swiss...
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February 2, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A comparison of the media’s scandalization of Hildebrand and Wulff. Let us start with a false prognosis: Immediately preceding Swiss National Bank president Philipp Hildebrand’s public resignation, I predicted to a small group of...
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January 15, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
If newspapers are no longer printed, the journalistic profession will change dramatically, and not necessarily for the better. While several media conglomerates in the German-speaking world, among them Ringier and Springer, have prepared...
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November 28, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Support for public broadcasting and the press is a political issue, but not only in Austria. By comparing data from Germany, Finland, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Geert Linnebank from...
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November 23, 2011 •
Public Relations •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The largest supplier of automotive technology, the Robert Bosch Group, recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. Rather than simply publishing a history of the company, the corporate communications department opted for a spectacular...
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October 18, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The extent to which journalists and the media might share at least partial responsibility for the meltdown of banks and the financial markets has not been widely addressed thus far. Can the dog’s dinner that is the economic crisis also...
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