November 14, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
The connections between media and politics are deeply rooted in the Italian society and it seems very difficult to separate them, even without the media baron Silvio Berlusconi as the head of the Italian government. This is one of the...
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November 13, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Stewart Purvis
After a career as both a journalist (BBC and ITN) and a regulator (Ofcom) I had come to the conclusion that my colleagues in British journalism weren’t very interested in reading rules that somebody had written for them. How then to...
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November 6, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
The debate was civil but the tone was sharp. When Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story, recently engaged in a vigorous debate...
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October 18, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Peter Laufer
The University of Oregon is a long-standing friend of the European Journalism Observatory and we are delighted to announce a closer collaboration between the two institutions. The University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and...
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October 17, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A new survey of media managers in Austria offers some unexpected insights into how different parts of media organisations think. For the first time, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Matthias Karmasin und Daniela Kraus (Medienhaus Wien) have surveyed...
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October 4, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Meera Selva
This week has seen the strained relationships between some of Britain’s newspapers and the politicians who want to regulate them. In a new series, the EJO presents a summary of the main developments through a series of web links, with a...
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September 24, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Natascha Fioretti
Are journalists too busy going to war against each other, when they should be battling censorship and authoritarianism? This is the question posed by New York Times reporter David Carr, as he discusses the way different news organisations...
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September 18, 2013 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Saila Kiuttu
Storytelling is a constantly evolving art. Tablets have the potential to take it to a new level, but newspapers and broadcasters have not yet found the best ways to present their stories on tablets. Many still think that cutting and...
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September 16, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by George Brock
To judge by the prevailing tone of public discussion, journalism in Europe and America has been suffering a prolonged nervous breakdown. Jobs are lost as newsrooms contract, print circulations shrink and online news startups fail because...
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