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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February 20, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A study looking at how politicians and journalists interact with each other in Berne reveals some surprises about the interplay between media and government. Is the interaction between journalists and politicians in small states different...
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February 11, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Switzerland’s decision this weekend to vote in favour of imposing quotas on the numbers of newcomers into the country has caused uproar across Europe, and within the country. Germany’s Ralf Stegner, deputy chairman of the centre left...
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January 21, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by Tina Bettels
A comparative study into the professional views of journalism students show that most of them are influenced by their country’s political history and by the views of their predecessors. Researchers working with Claudia Mellado...
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March 4, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In a recent post we discussed the merits and limits of press freedom rankings. One of the rather sad facts is that newsrooms rarely ask how such rankings are created. Researchers seem to be more interested in this essential methodological...
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August 11, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It’s not every day that an American trade journal like the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) shows serious interest in something happening outside the U.S. Recently, however, the journal dedicated a long story to Scandinavian countries....
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February 21, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
After the collateral damage caused by free papers, a surge towards media concentration. Recently, a normally sedate Switzerland gained unusual media attention, not only due to data theft and banking secrecy, but with the help of Ghedafi...
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December 16, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Austrians are all too familiar with the unfavorable media attention focused on their Swiss neighbors, for as the Austrians learned, once the electorate sheers obstreperously from the consensus of “political correctness“ on which...
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December 1, 2008 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 31, 2008 Local television has – at least in Switzerland – a positive impact on political participation. Collecting cross-sectional data on a community level, Christine Benesch of the University of...
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