September 6, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Anya Schiffrin
Fact-checking has come of age. It no longer just debunks false information, but puts pressure on the perpetrators to correct it....
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August 7, 2019 •
Newsroom Management, Recent, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Rui Barros
A Portuguese data journalist advises aspiring journocoders not to be put off by the slow pace of change in most newsrooms, but to keep at it. ...
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July 1, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Yunus Erduran
A recent survey of Turkish professional journalists’ attitudes towards citizen journalism finds that while many value the work of citizen journalists, some have reservations over collaborating with them. The current state of...
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June 25, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Facebook’s recent announcement that it had entered into a partnership with Agence France Presse (AFP) as its third-party fact-checker in Poland may have led some media-watchers to assume that there are as yet no reliable Polish...
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June 13, 2019 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
EJO Hungarian has now become a fully-fledged member of the EJO network of websites. The official launch of the Hungarian-language site has been eagerly awaited within the network, as developments in the Hungarian media have attracted a...
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June 10, 2019 •
Newsroom Management, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer
“‘Bye-bye lone wolf’ is the current motto, as journalism steps into the networking society and as cooperation and collaboration become regular work methods”, German-Danish journalist-scholar Brigitte Alfter emphasises in her new...
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March 11, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Jan Rau and Felix Simon
In a previous piece for EJO, Jan Rau and Felix Simon examined the role played by digital counterpublics in today’s world. They now look at the case of Germany’s Identitarian movement and how it has sought to impose itself on the news...
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March 5, 2019 •
Censorship, Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Damian Radcliffe and Payton Bruni
Being a journalist in – or reporting on – the Middle East brings with it many challenges. One key issue, for journalists and news consumers alike, is the relative lack of media freedom, and freedom of expression, in the region....
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February 13, 2019 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Mündges
Europe goes to the polls at the end of May. With so much at stake in these elections, many fear a repeat of the massive disinformation campaigns that affected the results of the Brexit referendum and the US presidential elections in 2016....
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