December 7, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Alina Vasiliu
As the EJO continues its eastward expansion, we’re pleased to announce our latest language version, EJO Romania. In the following article, Alina Vasiliu, our Romanian Web Editor, provides an overview of the Romanian media landscape, past...
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November 11, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Liga Ozolina
Inga Springe sits down with Liga Ozolina of the EJO’s Latvian team to discuss the Baltic Investigative Reporting Center. On August 9, 2011, a group of journalists from Lithuania, Estonia, and the United States announced the creation...
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November 6, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Eric Karstens
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre Among many others, one of the challenges faced by post-revolutionary countries concerns journalism and the media. A free, pluralistic, and responsible media is a prerequisite for a...
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October 31, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Michael Wise
As corruption in university athletic programs continues to grow, so does the “scandal beat.” In an analysis published in the Columbia Journalism Review this October, reporter Daniel Libit reviews the policies of amateur athletics and...
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October 18, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The extent to which journalists and the media might share at least partial responsibility for the meltdown of banks and the financial markets has not been widely addressed thus far. Can the dog’s dinner that is the economic crisis also...
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October 17, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Francesco Conte
Article Courtesy of European Journalism Centre There are about 100,000 journalists in Italy, but the number could be much higher if the journalistic profession were not regulated by a corporation, the Ordine dei Giornalisti (ODG). In Italy...
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October 4, 2011 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
News editors may blog about kids, not so much about news-making. With positive perceptions of news credibility continuing to wane, providing public explanations for news decisions is generally considered a meritorious step in the right...
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September 15, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Kate Nacy
How the news in Belarus remains…upbeat. A few weeks ago Sovetskaya Belarussia – the most widely circulated daily in Belarus – ran a lead story proclaiming the country’s GDP had risen a glorious 9.8 percent since January and...
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August 31, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Philip Di Salvo
After twenty years spent in exile with his family in Australia, Saad Mohseni, son of an Afghan diplomat, returned to Afghanistan as the Taliban regime collapsed in 2002. He is now defined by the international media as “The Murdoch...
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