May 24, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Media managers and journalists are not good at dealing with criticism. They demand accountability and transparency from others, but do not see why they should hold themselves up to similar scrutiny. This study argues that the media...
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April 25, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 17, 2009 Do corrections columns strengthen the news media’s credibility? A frequent victim of journalistic error, Barack Obama may have set records in name-botching. On his blog RegretTheError.com, media...
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October 30, 2008 •
Media Economics •
by Kurt W Zimmermann
Weltwoche 42/08 Kurt W. Zimmermann asks why journalists are reluctant to admit error We don’t care what nonsense was spread earlier about the financial market but unfortunately, our readers do. In the case of UBS, the journalists were...
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