April 9, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Artan Fuga
The European Journalism Observatory: a project founded by Professor Stephan Russ-Mohl at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, has had a fundamental impact on the work of the Department of Journalism and Communication at the...
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January 30, 2014 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jenny Dean
A study from Journalism Practice looks at how effective social media is in reaching audiences for news. It compares Facebook and Twitter and suggests that Twitter might just have the advantage. Researchers believe this is the case because...
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December 17, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Watergate forever changed American journalism. That’s how many American journalists, especially political reporters, remember the relentless, investigative reporting that brought down Richard Nixon. After Watergate (1972-1974) there was...
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November 19, 2009 •
Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
The Pew Internet and American Life Project examines social isolation and new technology. Lee Rainie, director of the project, set out to test the assumption that the Internet contributes to feelings of isolation. The Pew survey finds that...
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April 6, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, 2+03/2009 Michael Haller and Norbert Küpper are research pioneers who, with the help of an eye-tracking device, analyze eye movements that occur while readers peruse newspapers and Web pages. In the latest issue of...
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December 1, 2008 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Message, NR. 4/2008 Communications researchers and journalists could stand to learn a great deal from one another, yet in Germany and the U.S. an invisible wall seems to separate the two fields. Imagine your physician tells you, “What...
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July 2, 2008 •
Media and Politics •
by Angelika Wyka
July, 2008 The Italianization Model? A Comparative Perspective on the East Central European and South European Media Systems To compare media systems in Western Europe and North America, Paolo Mancini of University of Perugia, Italy, and...
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