December 2, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Thomas Schmidt
A new study by C. W. Anderson looks at the practices of news aggregators, problematizes the “originality” of original content and calls for “networks of journalistic expertise”. The research suggests that aggregators and...
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November 11, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by James T. Hamilton
Transparency policies in the US and UK often fail to provide reporters with information that would help voters hold government accountable. Government open data policies are more often focused on providing information that helps firms...
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November 6, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
The debate was civil but the tone was sharp. When Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story, recently engaged in a vigorous debate...
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October 29, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Refresh, refocus and move forward. That’s how the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the University of Missouri recently invited journalists and researchers to think about the future of journalism. On the agenda were...
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October 18, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Peter Laufer
The University of Oregon is a long-standing friend of the European Journalism Observatory and we are delighted to announce a closer collaboration between the two institutions. The University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and...
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September 27, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
On a crisp autumn day a group of academics gathered in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to discuss what they could do to protect the future of journalism. Potsdamer Platz was one of Europe’s greatest meeting places and it seemed a fitting...
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September 16, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by George Brock
To judge by the prevailing tone of public discussion, journalism in Europe and America has been suffering a prolonged nervous breakdown. Jobs are lost as newsrooms contract, print circulations shrink and online news startups fail because...
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September 10, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
With their long academic traditions, university-based journalism fellowship programmes look like relics from the past, but they are in fact needed now more than ever. The Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and the Reuters...
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August 13, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Michał Kuś, Stephan Russ-Mohl, Adam Szynol
Media barons – media owners who use their newsrooms to exercise political pressure and power – have become more influential in many Central and Eastern European countries. The most recent mega deals in the U.S. and in Germany...
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