September 14, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Heini Maksimainen
On the 16th of March, 2017, The Daily Express, a British tabloid newspaper, published a provocative headline: Eating cheese could increase the risk of this deadly cancer. Only a day later, The Sun, another UK tabloid, ran a competing...
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September 12, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Caroline Lees and Hannah Anson
National newspapers in the UK are mostly written by male journalists, even though women make up nearly half of the profession. The majority of news, business and comment articles are written by men and there are significantly more...
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August 18, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Zuzana Veselková
Freedom to publish on the internet and the expansion of social networks have brought unprecedented communication possibilities to the Czech Republic, as well as an influx of fake news, hoaxes, and disinformation. Campaigners draw attention...
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August 16, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality •
by EJO
EJO diary: August pick of forthcoming (free) media events, awards, conferences and training…. Voluntary internship Reporters without Borders, London European Journalist Training Association, Conference, Moscow Editor, news channel,...
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July 14, 2017 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Latest stories •
by Panu Karhunen
New research suggests that mobile journalism can be a more efficient method of interviewing people than traditional TV journalism. In a recent field experiment, a mobile journalist was able to persuade many more people to take part in vox...
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July 7, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics, Recent •
by Linards Udris, Viktor Vogt, Stefano De Rosa
Money and resources are key to producing quality news but a mission for quality is equally important according to a study comparing news coverage in different types of newspapers in two similar countries: Sweden and Switzerland. The study...
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July 4, 2017 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Latest stories •
by Gil Ferreira
Media agenda-setting theory assumes the public receive news from a limited set of sources and that this encourages a shared agenda. In the digital age, however, there are now multiple channels and sources, allowing individuals to construct...
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June 30, 2017 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Latest stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has a lot of potential for smarter journalism. Yet, as newsrooms increasingly experiment with new technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, they also run into...
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June 19, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Andreas Neukam and Max Hempel
American news channels are adopting the characteristics of reality TV shows, with speculation and emotion replacing fact, according to Robert Byrd, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis. In a seminar, Enemy of...
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