June 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom, Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
This article has been updated. Details below. Alexander Sodiqov a Tajik blogger at Global Voices and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto was detained in Tajikistan on June 16, in a case that raises issues of freedom of expression...
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June 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford is scathing about the role and function of journalism schools. Speaking at Ryerson University in Toronto, Picard said that in an environment...
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May 7, 2014 •
Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
If banks are functioning well, they should be invisible in the media. Stories about them should be hidden away in the back pages of general newspapers, of interest only to shareholders and investors. In recent years, they have been only...
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April 24, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Stephan Russ-Mohl outlines some of the major initiatives needed urgently in the media if the currently discredited ‘European Project’ is to be revived. Should this article just be a series of empty pages? Because let’s face it, there...
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April 10, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Markus Spillmann
Every academic should want their work to be noticed, not by experts in the field, but by the wider public. This is especially true for an area of study that focuses on publicity and the dissemination of information: media studies. The fact...
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April 9, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Artan Fuga
The European Journalism Observatory: a project founded by Professor Stephan Russ-Mohl at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, has had a fundamental impact on the work of the Department of Journalism and Communication at the...
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March 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by David Levy
Continuing our series marking 10 years of the EJO, David Levy, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and part of the EJO network takes a look at the future of news. News organisations blame the internet for almost...
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March 6, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
As the EJO celebrates its 10th anniversary, founder Stephan Russ-Mohl looks back at its founding principles. It is kind of a miracle: The European Journalism Observatory (EJO) has not only survived for the first ten years, it is also...
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November 20, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
On October 18, after a violent anti-migrant rally in Moscow’s Birulevo district, the radio station “Vesti FM,” part of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (ВГТРК), launched the Migrant Moscow (Москва...
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