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September 6, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Clemens Bomsdorf
For a long time, Iceland was seen as a shining example of press freedom – too good to be true, perhaps. But more recently, the country’s politicians have been attempting to influence the media. The latest example came right from...
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July 12, 2016 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Vas Panagiotopoulos
On a late June morning in a hotel in central Athens, the award-winning journalist Yavuz Baydar is discussing the erosion of press freedom in Turkey. “The Panama Papers were completely ignored,” he shrugs. In the audience, there are...
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June 29, 2016 •
Digital News, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Helena Hirvinen, Pasi Ikonen and Ville Manninen
Many British local journalists are dangerously ignorant of contemporary counter-surveillance methods and routines, initial findings from a Birmingham City University study suggest. The research into the information security skills of UK...
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April 29, 2016 •
Media Economics, Short stories •
by EJO
The Panama Papers, an international exposé based on a huge database leak, is a recent example of how public private partnerships can produce outstanding journalism: cooperation between Germany’s public broadcasters, NDR and WDR, and...
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