May 12, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
An alarm signal is sounding from Italy. Media researchers there have analysed how misinformation and conspiracy theories spread via social networks, such as Facebook, much faster than news from more reliable sources. A team of researchers,...
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May 7, 2015 •
Recent, Research •
by Robert G. Picard
Journalists believe journalism will be a harder job with less institutional support in the future, according to a survey conducted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists. The...
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April 22, 2015 •
Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Roman Hájek and Sandra Štefaniková
The public increasingly depend on citizen journalists to witness and record events objectively, and to hold the mainstream media to account for honesty and authenticity, according to Stuart Allan, Professor of Journalism and...
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April 17, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by EJO
Academic journals are read from cover to cover by fewer than ten people on average, according to an opinion piece in the Straits Times, by Asit K Biswas, and Julian Kirchherr. Biswas, a visiting professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of...
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March 25, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
If you think about journalism as a particular culture, it is only logical to study it like other cultures—by going out into the field and examining it at close range. That is why a new generation of journalism researchers has...
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March 6, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Thomas Schmidt
In contrast to many European countries the United States imposes few public interest regulations on its media. In his new book, America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform,...
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February 26, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers, dubbed ‘Facebook for Science’, has launched a new social reader – the RG Format – which it claims will help academics manage their work and...
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February 24, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Jørgen Skrubbeltrang
In modern foreign news reporting a ‘fixer’ is becoming as essential to the journalistic process as a foreign correspondent. Without a fixer – a local person hired to help with logistics, contacts and translation – the...
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January 14, 2015 •
Public Relations, Research •
by Sonja Gruber
The news embargo is an ancient press tool that seems, at first glance, not to fit into the modern world of digital media. However, although there are no deadlines on rolling news or social media, a new study reveals that many journalists...
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