October 1, 2014 •
Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
News outlets no longer want to just write for their readers; they want to communicate with their users. Yet, once they open their digital doors they quickly realise that users might leave their manners at the doorstep. Some insult, some...
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March 26, 2014 •
Business Models, Media and Politics •
by John Anderson
Radio broadcasting remains a powerful medium of modern communications: in the United States, more than 240 million people use it every week. In times of crisis and disaster, it is often the medium of last resort. But its place of primacy...
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March 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by David Levy
Continuing our series marking 10 years of the EJO, David Levy, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and part of the EJO network takes a look at the future of news. News organisations blame the internet for almost...
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December 3, 2013 •
Digital News, Press Freedom •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The recent issue of New Eastern Europe, a news journal with the focus on Central and Eastern European affairs, has a special section on Digital Eastern Europe. In it, the group of authors look at the internet and surrounding technologies...
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March 18, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Margaryta Chornokondratenko
Media experts urge journalists to pay attention to the social network Pinterest. While media outlets in many countries are still discovering the opportunities of visual communication through the social media, their U.S. counterparts have...
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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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February 6, 2013 •
Business Models •
by Tănase Tasenţe
In 2012, advertisers invested more than 300 million euro into Romania’s advertising market, a 2 percent decrease when compared to 2011. Although television is the advertising channel which receives the most investment, the amounts...
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January 7, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by Philip Di Salvo
Digital rights deserve just as much protection as the fundamental rights according to the European Parliament in Strasburg, which recently endorsed a report on “Digital Freedom Strategy in Foreign Policy.” The Dutch Member of...
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December 12, 2012 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Philip Di Salvo
Today, the European Journalism Observatory launches its newly restyled English website. Soon, all 10 linguistic versions will adopt the new layout and interface, which features a reader-friendly front page, more content, and ultimately...
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