February 11, 2016 •
Research, Short stories •
by Charlie Beckett
How do you reach an audience to pay attention to your research or publications in a world where media power is shifting and the terms of communication trade are becoming more complicated and subjective? An old friend of mine who used to...
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February 3, 2016 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Writing in Der Spiegel online, Sascha Lobo, the German blogger and digital sceptic, recently expressed his displeasure at the rapid spread of “blitz-hatred, bang-stupidity and readiness to violence” openly “spat out” on the web....
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January 29, 2016 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by EJO
EJO’s pick of upcoming media events, opportunities, grants and jobs … Editorial linked assistant position, Daily Mail, London Wired: looking for a Digital Editor Journalism and Crisis, Annual Journalism Conference at...
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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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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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December 1, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Short stories •
by Mark Blach-Ørsten
Credibility is frequently represented as both an ideal goal for journalism as a profession and as an integral part of the survival strategy of the news industry. Yet there exists no widely accepted way of measuring the concept. Our recent...
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November 23, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Jenny Dean
Not long ago print newspapers were filed in enormous folders, placed in metal cabinets and stored in the basement of newspapers. They gathered dust and were a fire hazard, but there were few other ways to store them. In the digital...
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