April 19, 2018 •
Comment, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Manipulators of public opinion are using false stories to wreak havoc in Eastern Europe. Yet, there are some initiatives which are trying to fight them....
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April 17, 2018 •
Business Models, Media Economics, Recent •
by Georgia Ertz
Native advertising is increasingly popular among advertisers and media companies. Yet, it is also a form of deception. Research shows that most readers do not recognise native advertising when they see it. Quality media, in particular,...
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April 11, 2018 •
Business Models, Digital News, Media Economics, Recent, Technology •
by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Platform companies increasingly run much of the infrastructure of free expression and have a lasting impact on the news business. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen’s inaugural lecture analyses the power of platforms and tracks the challenges that lie...
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March 30, 2018 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Antonia Matei and Anamaria Nicola
In an era where journalism is often reduced to 140 characters on social media and less and less books are published, Romanian printing houses took a chance and invested in books written by journalists. In fact, it is quite a trend...
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March 28, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Research •
by EJO
News media in the UK, perhaps understandably, often seem to be obsessed with Brexit and its implications. Rarely a day passes which does not see another alarmist article being published on some aspect of the ongoing negotiations between...
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March 28, 2018 •
Comment, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Alexander Fanta
Last week, I received an email from the European Commission denying me annual accreditation for the year 2018. In the terse reply to my request sent more than six weeks earlier, the Commission stated that my employer, the German blog...
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March 22, 2018 •
Business Models, Media Economics, Recent •
by Manuela Preoteasa and Andrei Schwartz
Back in the 2000s, Romania, like other Central and Eastern European countries, had a complicated media landscape. Media tycoons were funnelling unrealistic amounts of money into a constrained commercial press that had no way of providing a...
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March 21, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Raluca Radu
This is the second part of a two part study, comparing Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM). In a first article on the subject, we found that PSM’s budgets vary enormously across Europe and organisations do not share a common financial...
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March 19, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Research •
by Roberto Mincigrucci and Anna Stanziano
“Italian politics are corrupt.” It’s an assumption repeated almost like a mantra by the Italian media. So much so that is has become a widespread conviction. By now, every political party and every candidate comes with a whiff of...
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