March 17, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Scott. R Maier
Much attention has been given to the newspaper industry’s plight as advertising plummets and circulation steadily declines. But largely missed among all the dire predictions is a surprising finding: metro dailies in the United States and...
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March 12, 2015 •
Press Freedom, Recent •
by Mads Kaemsgaard Eberholst and Jannie Moller Hartley
Social media debate has a bad reputation. Often described as meaningless, rude and derogatory, in extreme cases virtual disagreements have even led to threats and violence in the real world. Female politicians, in particular, have been...
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March 3, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Roman Hajek
Most MPs in the Czech Republic believe the media undermines trust in politics and almost half believe the media has a negative impact upon democracy. Politicians also think that many journalists are more interested in expressing their own...
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February 11, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Automated Insights, a American technology company, recently announced that it is producing and publishing 3,000 earnings report articles per quarter for the Associated Press, all automatically generated from data. Narrative Science,...
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February 2, 2015 •
Media Economics, Research •
by Luis Palacio
More than 450 new media platforms, publishing everything from news and sports to technology and arts, have launched in Spain since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, but only a small proportion of them are making a profit,...
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January 19, 2015 •
Digital News •
by Alice Antheaume
Twelve dead in a newsroom, many injured people. Most of them were working for Charlie Hebdo, a Paris-based satirical magazine. They were writing and drawing the news to be published. And they found death during the first editorial...
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January 14, 2015 •
Public Relations, Research •
by Sonja Gruber
The news embargo is an ancient press tool that seems, at first glance, not to fit into the modern world of digital media. However, although there are no deadlines on rolling news or social media, a new study reveals that many journalists...
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January 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Rachel Stern
An estimated 11 million European Union citizens live in a different EU country from which they were born. Generation E, the first cross-border data journalism project on European youth migration, aims to tell, and catalogue some of their...
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December 19, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Artan Fuga
Almost 100% of political news reported by Albanian public television (ATV) was based on public relations sources, or materials produced by government institutions and political parties, according to empirical research conducted during...
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