March 20, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Short stories •
by EJO
Shortly after Kellyanne Conway defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s false statement about attendance at Trump’s inauguration as “alternative facts”, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism asked a...
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March 14, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Short stories •
by Alexander Fanta
Some say Austria dodged a bullet last year. After an acrimonious year-long election campaign the Alpine nation elected Alexander Van der Bellen, a veteran Green Party politician, as president last December. He had a margin of 7.5 points...
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February 24, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Adam Szynol
Polish media remain under constant pressure from ongoing government reforms, aimed at bringing the press under tighter political control. Since the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) won both the 2015 presidential and parliamentary...
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December 16, 2016 •
Digital News, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Nadia Bellardi
The outcome of the U.S. presidential election dictated the mood at last month’s EU Colloquium on Fundamental Rights on Media Pluralism and Democracy in Brussels, and one may wonder what it might have been like under other...
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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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August 5, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Ceren Sozeri
A week before the recent coup attempt in Turkey a group of journalists launched a campaign to defend press freedom entitled “I am a journalist! Journalism is not a crime!”. Participating newspapers and online news portals...
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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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July 4, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by EJO
The network of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is expanding into the Arab world. Together with the Media Development Centre (MDC) in Tunisia, the EJO has created an Arabic Journalism Observatory (AJO – www.ajo-ar.org). With a...
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February 29, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Research •
by Susanne Fengler Marcus Kreutler Tina Bettels Schwabbauer
Important pan-European news stories, such as the Ukraine crisis, are often overlooked by Europe’s media – including the quality press – according to new research. A comparative analysis of the conflict in Ukraine, conducted...
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