June 5, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Research •
by Beatrice Gatti
News is growing more negative. Research shows this is a a growing trend in political news and articles. Researchers argue that the political stories are commonly framed negatively, and the cynical coverage appears focused on the...
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May 12, 2014 •
Press Freedom, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Internet gurus and serious researchers have had great expectations that the internet will give us new freedoms and the potential for democratization. Sadly, the empirical findings provided by two American researchers, Karin Deutsch...
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April 9, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
Determining the relationship between journalism and politics often amounts to a chicken-and-egg-situation: Who drives whose agenda? Is it media outlets dictating the news of the day or is it politicians and their spin doctors manufacturing...
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March 26, 2014 •
Business Models, Media and Politics •
by John Anderson
Radio broadcasting remains a powerful medium of modern communications: in the United States, more than 240 million people use it every week. In times of crisis and disaster, it is often the medium of last resort. But its place of primacy...
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March 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
This article has been amended. A newspaper editor in Tajikistan is locked in a legal battle with academics over her right to publish an opinion piece. Olga Tutubalina, editor of the country’s most popular newspaper, Asia-Plus wrote an...
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March 13, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Evgeniya Boklage and Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
The editor of a liberal Russian news website Lenta.ru has been fired in a move that many say is part of a Kremlin-backed crackdown on press freedom. Galina Timchenko was fired on March 12 after ten years as editor of the site by the...
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March 11, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Dariya Orlova
Ukrainian journalists and social activists are fighting back against what they claim is a flood of distorted, inaccurate coverage of the country’s affairs from the Russian media. The Ukrainian media have started compiling lists of...
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February 25, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Ukraine’s violent turmoil is the most important international news story at this moment, and has sparked international debate on democracy, popular protests, the role of the European Union and Russia’s influence in Europe. For Moscow,...
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February 20, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A study looking at how politicians and journalists interact with each other in Berne reveals some surprises about the interplay between media and government. Is the interaction between journalists and politicians in small states different...
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