September 6, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Anya Schiffrin
Fact-checking has come of age. It no longer just debunks false information, but puts pressure on the perpetrators to correct it....
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September 4, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Avner Ofrath
Should a journalist's responsibility to expose falsehoods always take precedence over all other considerations?...
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July 1, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Yunus Erduran
A recent survey of Turkish professional journalists’ attitudes towards citizen journalism finds that while many value the work of citizen journalists, some have reservations over collaborating with them. The current state of...
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June 25, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Facebook’s recent announcement that it had entered into a partnership with Agence France Presse (AFP) as its third-party fact-checker in Poland may have led some media-watchers to assume that there are as yet no reliable Polish...
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June 17, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer and Susanne Fengler
The European Journalism Observatory has been awarded the 2019 Günter Wallraff Prize. On 14 June, the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) received the 2019 Günter Wallraff Prize for the critical examination of journalism. The prize was...
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June 12, 2019 •
Comment, Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The EJO’s co-founder calls for pan-European “alliances for enlightenment” to be created as part of the fightback against misinformation. Much has changed since the first correspondents were sent to Brussels to cover EU affairs,...
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June 6, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Technology •
by EJO
NewsGuard, the US media start-up launched in 2018 with the ambitious aim of providing news consumers with a reliable guide to the trustworthiness of any news website they might consider visiting, is gradually being rolled out across...
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May 30, 2019 •
Comment, Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management, Recent •
by Thomas Kent
What’s your news company’s mission? Most journalists at mainstream news organizations would bridle at the question. A mission sounds like a pre-determined point of view, an ideology that could colour reporting. Isn’t a news...
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May 20, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Paula Kennedy
Most autocratic leaders do their utmost to maintain a tight grip over all sources of information in their country, but few in recent years have done this as systematically and as effectively as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. The figures tell...
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