June 25, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Facebook’s recent announcement that it had entered into a partnership with Agence France Presse (AFP) as its third-party fact-checker in Poland may have led some media-watchers to assume that there are as yet no reliable Polish...
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June 13, 2019 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
EJO Hungarian has now become a fully-fledged member of the EJO network of websites. The official launch of the Hungarian-language site has been eagerly awaited within the network, as developments in the Hungarian media have attracted a...
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June 10, 2019 •
Newsroom Management, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer
“‘Bye-bye lone wolf’ is the current motto, as journalism steps into the networking society and as cooperation and collaboration become regular work methods”, German-Danish journalist-scholar Brigitte Alfter emphasises in her new...
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March 11, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Jan Rau and Felix Simon
In a previous piece for EJO, Jan Rau and Felix Simon examined the role played by digital counterpublics in today’s world. They now look at the case of Germany’s Identitarian movement and how it has sought to impose itself on the news...
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March 5, 2019 •
Censorship, Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Damian Radcliffe and Payton Bruni
Being a journalist in – or reporting on – the Middle East brings with it many challenges. One key issue, for journalists and news consumers alike, is the relative lack of media freedom, and freedom of expression, in the region....
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February 13, 2019 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Mündges
Europe goes to the polls at the end of May. With so much at stake in these elections, many fear a repeat of the massive disinformation campaigns that affected the results of the Brexit referendum and the US presidential elections in 2016....
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January 2, 2019 •
Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Joëlle Swart, Chris Peters and Marcel Broersma
People are increasingly moving from open platforms like Facebook towards more private social media such as WhatsApp. But what goes on inside these “black boxes”? And how does it affect news engagement? A new study tried to find out....
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December 17, 2018 •
Press Freedom, Specialist Journalism •
by Johanna Mack
Award-winning Pakistani journalist and activist Saddam Tufail Hashmi explains why journalism is such a risky profession in his country and how determined reporters try to do their work under the most severe circumstances....
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December 13, 2018 •
Digital News, Research, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Andrea Briga
Hackathons have become a trend in journalism, too. But what is their purpose? And do they have a positive effect on news innovation? New research looks at this phenomenon through a journalism lens....
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