March 10, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
Daniela Kraus of Medienhaus Wien discusses media accountability, media ethics and innovations in Austrian journalism. Q: Are there successful examples of media accountability in Austria? It would be easier to mention examples that have...
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March 4, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Study analyzes distinction between newspapers and online news. Hoping to shed light on what newspaper readers stand to lose or gain by moving online, Scott Maier, a researcher and professor of journalism at the University of Oregon’s...
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March 4, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
Interview with Heikki Heikkilä, Journalism Research and Development Centre, University of Tampere Q: Are there successful examples of media accountability in Finland? A: Finland is known for its established media accountability systems....
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March 4, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Media accountability is increasingly important, especially in times of increasing media concentration. Twelve research teams have formed with the collective aim of examining the state of media accountability in Europe over the next three...
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February 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
Media Privatization and the Spread of Foreign Ownership in East Central Europe “Denationalization and privatization are among the fundamental prerequisites for the development of new (democratic) media systems. Nearly a half century...
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February 16, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, reports from Haiti. Physician-journalists like Gupta typically appear on staff to offer a sophisticated understanding of medical science, clinical...
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January 19, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Last November, a conference hosted by the Institute of Applied Media Studies in Winterthur, Switzerland, examined the relationships among journalism, scholarship and the public interest. Barbie Zelizer, director of the Annenberg Scholars...
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January 14, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
When and under which conditions is journalism in the “public interest?” If one does not complacently assume whatever journalists publish is serving the common good, one gets into trouble finding a plausible answer to this question,...
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December 16, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Austrians are all too familiar with the unfavorable media attention focused on their Swiss neighbors, for as the Austrians learned, once the electorate sheers obstreperously from the consensus of “political correctness“ on which...
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