February 16, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Mark Marku
The changing political system in Albania is tied to the evolution and transformation of the media industry. The establishment of political pluralism and a market economy in 1991 brought with it the collapse of the state’s monopoly in...
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February 2, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A comparison of the media’s scandalization of Hildebrand and Wulff. Let us start with a false prognosis: Immediately preceding Swiss National Bank president Philipp Hildebrand’s public resignation, I predicted to a small group of...
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January 23, 2012 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
“Shut off the TV when you know more than the anchorman.” Such a recommendation, almost comically obvious, invites the recipient to ponder a number of scenarios in which its application could be rather judicious. In his latest book Slow...
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January 21, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Mariella Radaelli
*Article courtesy of European Journalism Centre Anyone sitting in front of the television in Italy for half an hour, especially in the evening, would soon believe we’re all in dire need of a clairvoyant. This is because astrologers,...
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January 15, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
If newspapers are no longer printed, the journalistic profession will change dramatically, and not necessarily for the better. While several media conglomerates in the German-speaking world, among them Ringier and Springer, have prepared...
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January 12, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Milica Jevtic and Marko Nedeljkovic
Although Serbia is home to only seven million citizens, it has no less than 610 print media outlets and 456 electronic media platforms. Lack of transparent ownership, lack of freedom and an inadequate withdrawal of the state from various...
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January 1, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Remzi Lani
Throughout the post-communist transition period, the relationship between media and politics has been intensely complex and rife with contradiction. Today’s Balkan press functions more as an extension of politics than a representation of...
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December 26, 2011 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Liga Ozolina
On November 16, UNESCO’s International Day for Tolerance, communication researchers from Riga Stradins University (RSU) presented the first aggression index of Internet commentaries in Latvia. Researchers introduced a special method...
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December 12, 2011 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Marlis Prinzing
Change takes time, a fact that does not always agree with the human tendency to be impatient. At the beginning of the year, we were enthusiastic about the progressive events taking place in Arab regions. Dictators were removed and hundreds...
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