June 1, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Michael Wise
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) maintains that allowing Azerbaijan to host the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest was good for business and for Azeri citizens. More than 100 million viewers worldwide tuned in to watch the 2012 Eurovision...
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May 29, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A new study examining recent press coverage of the ongoing Greek debt crisis shows that most newspapers in Italy, Britain, and France featured biased reporting of events. Cristina Marconi, an Italian journalist and Fellow at the Reuters...
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March 26, 2012 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Ilze Olsteina
Media managers confront a new branding dilemma concerning the Twitter “behavior” of their employees. Many media leaders are now asking whether tweets should be accredited to their publishing houses and if so, how should this be done?...
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July 6, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
While some media professionals argue loudly over ethical issues tied to sponsored news content, Bart Brouwers quietly gets down to business, charging his “advertisers” for articles. According to a recent European Journalism Centre...
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September 11, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
How a mustachioed outlier learned to use Twitter and suckered the media. An otherwise unknown loon takes control of the newscycle, gives more than 150 interviews prior to being awarded a formal press conference, and in the end, reneges on...
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April 13, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Journalist Nicholas Jones discusses the maladies of celebrity reportage and the effect on British journalism. Occasionally crass, often contrived star-riddled stories plague the UK press, and according to Jones, the ethical slips...
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April 7, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
Interview with Mihai Coman of the University of Bucharest’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Q: Are there successful examples of media accountability in Romania? It depends on perspective. On an institutional level there...
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March 29, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
Interview with Colin Porlezza, communications researcher at the Università della Svizzera italiana and EJO collaborator. Q: Are there successful examples of media accountability in Switzerland? It depends on what one understands as a...
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March 24, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
Interview with Epp Lauk, Institute of Journalism and Communication, University of Tartu, Estonia. Q: Are there successful examples of media accountability systems in Estonia? There are two press councils in Estonia – the Newspaper...
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