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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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July 2, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by David Levy
One of the most fascinating insights in the Reuters Institute 2013 Digital News Report is the relative performance of today’s news organisations in the online space as opposed to their performance offline. The figures in the report...
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July 2, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Simon P. Balzert
Journalism often deals with violence and catastrophe. So journalists must continually make decisions on how to use images of corpses, conflict, and trauma. A journalism diploma thesis by Simon Balzert at the Technische Universität...
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June 6, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
A German web magazine has set up a new kind of forum to discuss the media, and is offering grants for innovative young journalists to discover new ways of reporting. For more than a decade, German publishers have consistently downgraded...
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