January 28, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by Karen Grass
Many American journalists are confused about copyright law in the United States, leading to the publication of weak or substandard content, according to a new study. A team of researchers led by Patricia Aufderheide, a professor of...
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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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January 13, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Karen Torben-Nielsen
Older people “don’t go out much”, they “chew funny”, are “all wrinkled and short”, or even “have heart attacks and die”. These were the frank and blunt answers that Jantz et al (1976) got in their classic study, when they...
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December 30, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Helen Caple
Helen Caple, a social semiotician at the University of New South Wales, and Monika Bednarek, a linguist at the University of Sydney Australia, discuss a novel approach to the study of news values across both words and images, one that they...
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December 23, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Charlie Deitz
A call for enhanced training and newsroom resources for future catastrophies. A year after the Newtown massacre, when a lone gunman killed 20 children and 6 staff in their schoolrooms, advocacy groups on both sides of the gun control issue...
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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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December 10, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Karen Grass
Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini’s classifications of media systems according to geo-political divisions dominate research in the field but many argue that their model is outdated. Media researchers Frank Esser and Andrea Umbricht from...
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November 20, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
On October 18, after a violent anti-migrant rally in Moscow’s Birulevo district, the radio station “Vesti FM,” part of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (ВГТРК), launched the Migrant Moscow (Москва...
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November 19, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Why do countries feel the need to own a news channel? To inform their citizens about the world, or to inform the world about their citizens? A seminar organized by the BBC World Service, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
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