January 9, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Evgeniya Boklage
How do professional journalists use social media? With enthusiasm, caution or skepticism? Digital Journalism, the newly-launched journal of Taylor & Francis Group which focuses on the transformation of journalism in age of digital...
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November 29, 2013 •
Media Economics •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The Economist is one of the rare news publications that are surviving, and thriving in the economic downturn. It managed to set up an innovative digital product and keep its print version profitable. It enjoys the privilege of maintaining...
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June 6, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
A German web magazine has set up a new kind of forum to discuss the media, and is offering grants for innovative young journalists to discover new ways of reporting. For more than a decade, German publishers have consistently downgraded...
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March 25, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Immigration is topically tempestuous in nations the world over. In Germany, however, the subject is debated with near-Olympic rigor as the struggle to etch out a relationship with foreigners proves to be one of great longevity. Strident...
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February 18, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
According to Bernd Kramer, a journalist for the German daily Tageszeitung (taz), university financing isn’t a particularly hot and contentious topic in the German media. Yet in certain unscrupulous cases, the co-mingling of research and...
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January 28, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Anyone who knows about good stories knows that the best ones are seldom the easy ones. That said, the story of Carta has not been an easy one. Carta is a German multi-author blog dedicated to exploring the interface of media, economics and...
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October 19, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Michael Wise
Third-annual report brings news of progress despite the prevalence of new and sophisticated threats to Internet freedom. Freedom House’s newest report, “Freedom on the net 2012: A global assessment of Internet and digital media,”...
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August 18, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Sven Engesser and Edda Humprecht
Few newsrooms utilize the technical potential of Twitter. In a new study conducted by the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ) at the University of Zurich, researchers attempt to measure the spread of microblogging...
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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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