May 24, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Media managers and journalists are not good at dealing with criticism. They demand accountability and transparency from others, but do not see why they should hold themselves up to similar scrutiny. This study argues that the media...
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May 22, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Susanne Fengler and Tobias Eberwein
The European Union’s proposal to strengthen national media self-regulatory bodies has triggered a new debate on whether or not regulatory institutions carry out their tasks effectively and efficiently. A Europe-wide research project...
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May 16, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Antonio Rossano
“Teaching the fish how to walk: five things old media can learn from new media” is the title of the keynote speech given by Mathew Ingram, Canadian technology writer and the keynote speaker at the International Festival of Journalism...
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April 10, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Media researchers and journalists in busy newsrooms have spent decades ignoring each other. Anyone who tries to bring the two together has to work out how to combine the ordered, stately pace of academia with the sound and fury of modern...
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April 3, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Adela Halo
A new study from the Open Society Foundation for Albania (OSFA) provides an in-depth picture of the discourse between the main political leaders and newspapers in Albania. The OSFA report analyzes the discourse of two main political...
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March 25, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Immigration is topically tempestuous in nations the world over. In Germany, however, the subject is debated with near-Olympic rigor as the struggle to etch out a relationship with foreigners proves to be one of great longevity. Strident...
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March 1, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Spiegel Online’s pre-election coverage last week was not wrong, yet somehow it missed the decisive point in its pull quote: “A clown, a billionaire, an apparatchik and a professor who understands nothing of politics: One of these men...
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February 27, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
In France, ombudsmen – the so-called “médiateurs and médiatrices” – have played an important role in media organizations. Their efficiency, however, depends on how they are perceived by others in their environment, both...
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February 13, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Margaryta Chornokondratenko
In recent years a gradual but steady deterioration of media freedom has occurred in Ukraine. Whereas political censorship imposed on the media remains a burning issue in the country, Ukrainian media outlets have long suffered from another...
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