March 28, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Research, Short stories •
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 8, 2018 •
Digital News, Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Caroline Lees
Journalists and computer scientists are working to develop automated fact-checking (AFC) to enable large-scale responses to online misinformation, according to a new Factsheet by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)....
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February 19, 2017 •
Digital News, Research •
by EJO
“There is more than one internet.” This statement was the starting point for the forthcoming international conference Computer Networks Histories (CNH): Local, National and Transnational Perspectives. The conference will gather...
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October 17, 2016 •
Digital News, Research, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Of all the former socialist countries in Europe, Albania was the most encapsulated – inaccessible not only from the West, but also from Yugoslavia and from the former Soviet Union’s satellites. Even today, the small country with its...
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July 28, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics, Research •
by EJO
Europe’s newspapers were overwhelmingly negative towards Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, according to a review of the press in 13 countries in the week after the referendum. Most articles presented the view that Brexit was...
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May 23, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Research •
by EJO
The majority of UK press coverage in EU referendum campaign was heavily skewed in favour of Brexit in first two months of campaign, a new study reveals. One month before the EU referendum vote, the Reuters Institute for the Study of...
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March 30, 2016 •
Digital News, Research •
by Caroline Lees
Most European public service media services are failing to adapt to the digital environment and are in danger of losing touch with their audiences, according to a new report. The study reveals that while some public service news...
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March 9, 2016 •
Digital News, Research •
by Philip Di Salvo
BuzzFeed has undoubtedly changed journalism but, according to a new study, journalists and researchers are still trying to understand exactly what impact the company has had on the profession – and whether they approve. To...
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April 22, 2015 •
Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Roman Hájek and Sandra Štefaniková
The public increasingly depend on citizen journalists to witness and record events objectively, and to hold the mainstream media to account for honesty and authenticity, according to Stuart Allan, Professor of Journalism and...
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