September 24, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Natascha Fioretti
Are journalists too busy going to war against each other, when they should be battling censorship and authoritarianism? This is the question posed by New York Times reporter David Carr, as he discusses the way different news organisations...
Read article
September 18, 2013 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Saila Kiuttu
Storytelling is a constantly evolving art. Tablets have the potential to take it to a new level, but newspapers and broadcasters have not yet found the best ways to present their stories on tablets. Many still think that cutting and...
Read article
August 19, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
It’s clear by now that technology is both saving and destroying journalism. The Internet, tablets, smart phones have decimated the print media’s advertising-dependent business models but had also helped journalists reach new...
Read article
August 16, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Tina Bettels
It was a simple question: “Who are the Taliban?” An international research team posed this and other questions to 1000 adult TV viewers in 11 countries worldwide . In Europe, the majority of respondents knew that the Taliban were an...
Read article
August 13, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Michał Kuś, Stephan Russ-Mohl, Adam Szynol
Media barons – media owners who use their newsrooms to exercise political pressure and power – have become more influential in many Central and Eastern European countries. The most recent mega deals in the U.S. and in Germany...
Read article
July 23, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Karen Grass
Latvian journalism has only had two decades in which to grow up. Most East European countries had to develop fast after emerging from Soviet Union control. The media systems of these new nation states have gone in very different...
Read article
July 17, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
We are used to the media turning on those who seek to expose corruption and malpractice. But it is shocking nonetheless how soon media companies, when presented with one of the biggest data scandals in world history- namely the news that...
Read article
July 16, 2013 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Philip Di Salvo
The market for drones is expanding rapidly and will soon play an important role in the way journalism works, according to a new report. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International estimates that in the next ten years, the...
Read article
July 5, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Jonila Godole
In Albania, mainstream media focuses on news coming out of the capital city Tirana The rest of the country only gets attention if there is a natural disaster or dramatic human-interest story. Even within Tirana, marginalized communities...
Read article
