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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November 8, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Ido Liven
Journalists are getting frustrated with trying to persuade editors to let them cover stories they feel passionately about. Journalist Ido Liven describes a new, crowdsourced project to cover this month’s UN climate summit in Warsaw....
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November 6, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
The debate was civil but the tone was sharp. When Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story, recently engaged in a vigorous debate...
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October 29, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Refresh, refocus and move forward. That’s how the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the University of Missouri recently invited journalists and researchers to think about the future of journalism. On the agenda were...
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October 21, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Miruna Munteanu
When you have to rely on foreign press to learn about something happening in your country, national media is in deep trouble. That’s precisely what happened last month, when thousands of Romanians hit the streets to protest against the...
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October 8, 2013 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Can Twitter win elections? And if so, how? There is little doubt that social media is changing the way journalists and politicians communicate with each other and with voters during election campaigns but the implications and consequences...
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September 27, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
On a crisp autumn day a group of academics gathered in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to discuss what they could do to protect the future of journalism. Potsdamer Platz was one of Europe’s greatest meeting places and it seemed a fitting...
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