September 10, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
With their long academic traditions, university-based journalism fellowship programmes look like relics from the past, but they are in fact needed now more than ever. The Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and the Reuters...
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September 8, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Mark Thompson, President and CEO of the New York Times, said the newspaper industry could take lessons from Hollywood in how to generate several sources of revenue from one product. In his first major speech since taking up his post at the...
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September 4, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Karen Grass
Are political interviews fair on either the politicians or voters? Are journalists tougher on certain politicians than on others and what factors influence the treatment a politician receives at the hands of the press? A recent study by a...
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August 7, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Adam Pešek
No other name resonates as strongly in the Czech media market at the moment as that of Andrej Babiš, the second richest citizen in Czech Republic. In June Babiš bought one of the largest domestic media groups in the country, MAFRA. The...
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August 2, 2013 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality •
by Juliane Urban and Wolfgang Schweiger
The pressures of cost and time that newsrooms work under today severely hampers news production and threatens the nature of journalism. A large number of media outlets have tried to increase sales volume and revenue by moving downmarket...
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July 30, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Karen Grass
The release of the anti-Islamic movie trailer “The Innocence of Muslims” triggered widespread outrage throughout the Muslim world and attracted much media attention, but a recent study asks whether incomplete and incorrect reporting by...
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July 25, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Bastian Pietsch
In June, the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism hosted a conference on the portrayal of Africa in the European media. One of the key points to emerge was that the European media is doing a disservice to its audiences and to...
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July 8, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Federico Guerrini
Fact-checking is an old journalistic practice now being brought into considerably greater prominence due to the possibilities offered by the Internet. Fact checking is an important job, that began to be done systematically at some US...
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June 13, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
The public still believes that one of the most important roles the media can play is to act as a watchdog holding key institutions and individuals to account, according to a new cross-national study. The watchdog journalism model is one of...
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