August 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Daniela Kraus
User engagement is increasingly important to European media organizations. It is changing the way news is produced and consumed. Readers, listeners and viewers can now communicate directly with news providers. Newsrooms can also interact...
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August 5, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Tina Bettels
”What we do is not actually journalism” is the catchy title of a study into how online journalists in Slovenia and Serbia perceive their work and their professional role within the newsroom. The study’s title – a quote by...
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July 28, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The only way to respond to the ever-speaking, often-misleading and hyper-reacting world of Internet propaganda, it appears, is to establish a fact-checking website. These sites are set up to challenge spam, propaganda, misinformation and...
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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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