March 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
This article has been amended. A newspaper editor in Tajikistan is locked in a legal battle with academics over her right to publish an opinion piece. Olga Tutubalina, editor of the country’s most popular newspaper, Asia-Plus wrote an...
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March 20, 2014 •
Business Models •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Andrew Gowers was editor of the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005. He then moved into public relations, and was head of corporate communications at Lehman Brothers, and later head of group media at BP. He is currently global head of...
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March 14, 2014 •
Digital News, Public Relations •
by Pierre C. Meier
A new player has arrived on Swiss online newscape, promising to shake up mobile news. The widely anticipated online news portal, Watson.ch went live on January 22 with an unusual launch strategy, after a year long gestation period. The...
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March 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by David Levy
Continuing our series marking 10 years of the EJO, David Levy, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and part of the EJO network takes a look at the future of news. News organisations blame the internet for almost...
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February 5, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Jenny Dean
Of young adult smartphone users, a gap exists between how users consume information and news—and the technologies that news organizations are utilizing to convey it. The author of this study argues that a combination of location-based...
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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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July 2, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by David Levy
One of the most fascinating insights in the Reuters Institute 2013 Digital News Report is the relative performance of today’s news organisations in the online space as opposed to their performance offline. The figures in the report...
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July 2, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Simon P. Balzert
Journalism often deals with violence and catastrophe. So journalists must continually make decisions on how to use images of corpses, conflict, and trauma. A journalism diploma thesis by Simon Balzert at the Technische Universität...
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September 22, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, Nr. 8+9 During the last few years, many publishers in Europe experimented with changes to news formats. However, not all of these experiments in providing handy, magazine-like papers succeeded. The Swiss yellow-press...
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