August 24, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The role played by social media in the 2011 Arab Spring may have been overestimated by Western observers, but a new report, Media Use in the Middle East, 2015, reveals that platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are changing the...
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August 5, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Robert G. Picard
News coverage of the Euro Crisis across Europe has tended to portray European institutions as important, but ineffectual, in dealing with the crisis and to take national rather than a European approach to the issues, according to a study...
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July 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Rachel Stern
Located in an airy office in Berlin’s Mitte neighbourhood, newscase is a fast-growing, profitable Berlin journalism start-up – without any journalists. Newscase is an aggregator with a difference. It distributes the content of 100...
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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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July 9, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Research, Short stories •
by Mark Blach-Ørsten
Denmark’s latest general election was held on the 18th of June and, as always, the news media’s coverage of the event was a subject of public debate. Especially two points: the first, was the question of ‘the presidentialisation’...
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June 24, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Dariya Orlova and Victoria Sydorenko
Recent political developments in Ukraine, following the EuroMaidan Revolution, have seen increased democratization of the country. Yet press freedom remains highly vulnerable, as media-owning oligarchs continue to exert editorial pressure...
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June 23, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Thomas Kent
The Online News Association (ONA) will soon launch its “Build Your Own Ethics Code” project, designed to help news organisations, startups and individual journalists create codes of ethics that reflect their own journalistic...
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June 16, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by David Levy
This year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report is based on research conducted in 12 countries, surveying over 23,000 people. Key findings include a sharp increase in the use of social media platforms to reach audiences, a surge in the...
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June 10, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Kim Wilson
Allison Rockey is nothing if not game. Within the first minute of her presentation to a room full of experienced English journalists she admitted she a) wasn’t a journalist and b) had been in digital media about a year. And if that...
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