May 15, 2018 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management, Research, Short stories •
by EJO
News coverage in Europe is overwhelmingly dominated by male journalists and commentators, who spend much of their time writing about other men, a landmark new study of print and online news outlets has found....
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March 21, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Raluca Radu
This is the second part of a two part study, comparing Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM). In a first article on the subject, we found that PSM’s budgets vary enormously across Europe and organisations do not share a common financial...
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August 14, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Raluca Radu
A study of Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM) has revealed the 2008 global financial crisis forced some public broadcasters to make significant strategic changes to policy, funding and content while others were barely affected. It found...
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May 25, 2017 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Media Economics, Short stories •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Meduza, a Russian news website based in Latvia, is pioneering a new way to advertise. Audiences are challenged to participate in a game in which they manage a hypothetical Russian media company. When players (almost inevitably) fail they...
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April 4, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent •
by Ainars Dimants
Newspapers in Latvia are struggling. They are increasingly mistrusted by readers, who accuse them of pushing the political views of their owners. Revenues are down as advertisers spend their money on the country’s growing digital media...
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April 29, 2015 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Caroline Lees
Reporting objectively on Russia is increasingly complicated, according to Galina Timchenko. Not only due to pressure from Putin’s government and pro-Kremlin groups, but also because many Russian readers expect reporters to be...
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September 30, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Anda Rožukalne
Highly educated and well paid Latvian journalists are working without proper social insurance and often forego annual holiday pay, paid sick-leave, maternity leave, unemployment, and retirement benefits. These professionals are in danger...
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July 23, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Karen Grass
Latvian journalism has only had two decades in which to grow up. Most East European countries had to develop fast after emerging from Soviet Union control. The media systems of these new nation states have gone in very different...
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February 1, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
“Reporters Without Borders“ has once again published its annual Press Freedom Index. According to the ranking, Finland remains the global “front runner,” followed by the Netherlands, Norway, and Luxembourg. In the European Union,...
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