November 8, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Piero Macri
Shrinking World: The decline of international reporting in the British press A new report published in Media Standards Trust by Martin Moore focuses on the progressive disappearance of international news stories from newspaper pages....
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November 4, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A reason for the Swiss to be proud. In the most recent ranking of Transparency International, Switzerland lands in a group of 10 nations perceived to be least endangered by corruption. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Norway...
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October 25, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Kate Nacy
Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) releases Press Freedom Index 2010. Last year was a particularly grim one for journalists, as the number of murdered reporters rose 26 percent, while violence against...
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October 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Kate Nacy
We’ve long hailed the Internet as the great liberator, the free-sharing facilitator. But with the business of burying information booming, how accurate can this be? In a recent NPR story, Peter O’Dowd discusses digital...
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October 20, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Marcello Foa
Big Brother is about to step his way into media. For once, it isn’t Berlusconi. In fact, according to English papers, the concentration of TV channels belonging to Berlusconi is marginal compared to what is about to occur in Great...
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October 18, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
With the publication of a new edition, the BBC’s editorial guidelines now include recommendations on the use of social media and user-generated content. Replacing the previous 2005 edition, the new edition covers BBC Online content,...
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October 10, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Andreas Sträter
Reporting on tragedy requires thick skin. The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma offers help to journalists who find themselves in grievous circumstances. When the Duisburg Love Parade went from celebratory to hysterical, reporters,...
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October 7, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Modern wars are fought on at least two frontiers. There’s the military battlefield, and then there’s the media front, where the visceral darkness of war (collateral damages, tragedy, human suffering) must be distorted in order to...
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October 5, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Piero Macri
More speed, more news, more traffic. How the click-per-view logic changed journalism. The cover story of the latest issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, “The Hamster Wheel,” penned by Dean Starkman, analyzes and openly criticizes...
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