February 11, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Switzerland’s decision this weekend to vote in favour of imposing quotas on the numbers of newcomers into the country has caused uproar across Europe, and within the country. Germany’s Ralf Stegner, deputy chairman of the centre left...
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February 3, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
At a first glance, president Obama’s recent speech about the NSA seems to support arguments by Dan Gillmor, one of America’s most prominent Internet gurus. He believes that the fallout from the information leaked by Edward Snowden...
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December 20, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Is Putin’s swift reorganization of RIA Novosti really an exercise of strengthening control or is it merely a rebranding strategy planned well in advance? The EJO’s Rukhshona Nazhmidinova looks at the reactions and implications to the...
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December 19, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Angelina Davydova
Vladimir Putin has drastically restructured Russia’s leading state-owned news agency, RIA Novosti, into a new institution, Russia Today, with the aim of promoting the national image worldwide. Head of the new agency Dmitry Kiselyov is...
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December 10, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Dariya Orlova
On November 21, Mustafa Nayyem, one of Ukraine’s top journalists, called on his Facebook friends and followers to gather at the Monument of Independence at 10.30 p.m. to protest against the government’s decision to back away from...
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December 3, 2013 •
Digital News, Press Freedom •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The recent issue of New Eastern Europe, a news journal with the focus on Central and Eastern European affairs, has a special section on Digital Eastern Europe. In it, the group of authors look at the internet and surrounding technologies...
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November 13, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Stewart Purvis
After a career as both a journalist (BBC and ITN) and a regulator (Ofcom) I had come to the conclusion that my colleagues in British journalism weren’t very interested in reading rules that somebody had written for them. How then to...
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November 11, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by James T. Hamilton
Transparency policies in the US and UK often fail to provide reporters with information that would help voters hold government accountable. Government open data policies are more often focused on providing information that helps firms...
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September 30, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Anda Rožukalne
Highly educated and well paid Latvian journalists are working without proper social insurance and often forego annual holiday pay, paid sick-leave, maternity leave, unemployment, and retirement benefits. These professionals are in danger...
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