February 18, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Research •
by Stefan Antonov
Stefan Antonov, a Wincott Foundation fellow from Bulgaria at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, has written an exhaustive account of the political, economic and media situation in his home country. His recently published...
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February 10, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Philip Di Salvo
The refugee crisis represents a challenge to journalism across Europe. It has forced newsrooms to question how they report such a complex phenomenon in a balanced way, without reinforcing easy stereotypes and without appearing to...
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February 2, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Katharina Neumann & Philip Baugut
Refugee camps set alight across Europe, migrant children attacked by masked men in Stockholm, Anders Behring Breivik’s attack on a social democratic youth camp in Norway and a series of acts of Neo-Nazi terror in Germany – reporting...
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January 27, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
In the name of ‘freeing the local population from government control’, a group of armed men occupied a government building, entrenched themselves and blackmailed federal authorities. Patriots or terrorists? This question...
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January 19, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Caroline Lees
Facebook has launched a Europe-wide campaign to end hate speech and extremist posts on social media. The move came after German politicians complained about a rise in extremist and xenophobic comments on Facebook and other online...
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January 14, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by EJO
EJO editors and directors, in ten European countries, assess the state of the media across Europe and predict the year ahead. Media across Europe have been impacted by the dramatic technological and political changes of the 21st century. ...
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December 8, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Halyna Budivska
Media in Ukraine has become a pawn in the game between different political forces, a new study concludes. And audiences have noticed: recent months have witnessed a sharp decline of public trust in the media. This crisis is only likely...
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December 3, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Lambrini Papadopoulou
Europe’s migration crisis has transformed Greece into something more than just a transit country. Countless journalists from media all over the world have travelled to the islands and the borders to witness the arrival of nearly 700,000...
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December 2, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Ville Seuri
There are few views that are more unanimously shared by all European journalists than this: it is close to impossible to report well on the European Union. The bureaucratic monster only makes great news when it fails, and even then either...
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