December 3, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Lambrini Papadopoulou
Europe’s migration crisis has transformed Greece into something more than just a transit country. Countless journalists from media all over the world have travelled to the islands and the borders to witness the arrival of nearly 700,000...
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October 26, 2015 •
Latest stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Ian Hargreaves
The UK’s hyperlocal (community) journalism scene has long provoked strikingly contending judgments. Doubters see it as amateurish, fragile and of little relevance to ‘real’ journalism. Supporters believe it has already built the base...
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October 5, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Suzanne Franks
Sports coverage is booming. News about sport used to be confined to a couple of pages at the back of the newspaper, but today it occupies vast areas of print, online and broadcast attention. Sportsmen and women are better known and better...
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September 9, 2015 •
Recent, Research •
by Scott. R Maier
Mother Teresa understood compassion fatigue when she proclaimed, “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at one, I will.” What Mother Teresa knew from personal experience has been documented by behavioral research showing...
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July 17, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Rrapo Zguri
A bill aimed at regulating comments online has been described as an attack on freedom of expression in Albania. Under the proposed new law online media administrators who publish, or allow the publication of comments “that affect the...
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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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January 9, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
When Gergő Sáling was abruptly dismissed from his job as editor-in-chief of Hungarian news portal, Origo.hu, last June, at least half of Origo’s newsroom resigned in protest. Many claimed Saling had been sacked for refusing to stop an...
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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 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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