January 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
The continuing transformation of journalism not only affects journalists, technologists and media managers. It also presents a challenge for journalism scholars: How can theory keep up with practices that are changing so fast and so...
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December 17, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Vitor Tome
European news is dominated by white, middle aged men. While men over the age of 40 feature in three-quarters of news stories, women are the protagonists in only a quarter of news, according to new research. Migrants, immigrants, disabled...
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November 28, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
Germany’s first non-profit, investigative website has been launched in Berlin and Essen, inspired by similar prominent sites in the United States, ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Center for Public...
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October 31, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Researchers occasionally make us aware of the insanity of scholarly “productivity“. The publish or perish system young researchers are forced into and the brutal competition they face. Thomas Hanitzsch, of the University of Munich, has...
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October 24, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Peter Laufer
I teach the Journalistic Interview course at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Over the last few years I have been unable to find an up-to-date text to augment my classroom lectures and student assignments....
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June 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford is scathing about the role and function of journalism schools. Speaking at Ryerson University in Toronto, Picard said that in an environment...
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January 21, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by Tina Bettels
A comparative study into the professional views of journalism students show that most of them are influenced by their country’s political history and by the views of their predecessors. Researchers working with Claudia Mellado...
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April 16, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
The network of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is growing: From April, the responsibility for its English platform will be shared between our new partners, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of...
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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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