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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December 11, 2014 •
Research •
by Caroline Lees
The European Journalism Observatory is pleased to announce the launch of its newest partner website, EJO Portugal. The Portuguese language website, coordinated by Professor Gustavo Cardoso and Ana Pinto Martinho, from the Lisbon University...
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November 4, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Thomas Schmidt
Campaigning for the 2014 US mid-term elections has been largely negative and confrontational. Candidates have depended less on traditional media to get their political message across, relying instead on data-driven journalism, statistics,...
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November 4, 2014 •
Censorship, Short stories •
by Mikal Hem
All dictatorships and authoritarian regimes censor the media in some way. The reason is obvious: a free press will usually investigate the actions of government officials, give space to the opposition and publish ideas contrary to official...
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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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December 30, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Helen Caple
Helen Caple, a social semiotician at the University of New South Wales, and Monika Bednarek, a linguist at the University of Sydney Australia, discuss a novel approach to the study of news values across both words and images, one that they...
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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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October 27, 2012 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Matthias Schmidt
*EJO Student Contribution A new study from the University of Mainz shows that media coverage of banks is pro-cyclical. This means media outlets dramatize their business coverage in good and bad times – thus strengthening the market’s...
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