November 9, 2011 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Over the past seven weeks, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) story has been nothing shy of enigmatic, due largely to a lack of clear policy demands and a surplus of creepy plastic masks no one really understands. Despite its many nebulous...
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October 18, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The extent to which journalists and the media might share at least partial responsibility for the meltdown of banks and the financial markets has not been widely addressed thus far. Can the dog’s dinner that is the economic crisis also...
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October 10, 2011 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
The European Journalism Observatory will soon expand, offering five new Eastern European languages. This October marks the beginning of EJO’s integration of Albanian, Czech, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian languages, which will soon join...
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August 24, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Well, there. It’s been said. Perhaps not exactly in such precise terms, per se, but it’s been generally implied that there’s catastrophic U.S. federal debt out there, and that it’s massive, and that it will –...
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August 10, 2011 •
Public Relations, Specialist Journalism •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
The attacks in Oslo last month once again brought up the issue of framing in the media. As it turns out, not only do media outlets set the agenda for discussion in society, they also dictate how people should feel about the subjects in...
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April 29, 2011 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In advertising, a single catchword may move mountains. In research however, such buzzwords often create trends unable to withstand a diverse reality. For decades, many social science researchers have used the phrase “Americanization”...
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March 3, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Marcello Foa
We all grew excited viewing images from Cairo and Tunis. And as we listened to the reports from correspondents in Egypt and Tunisia, the world became convinced that the revolutions were unstoppable and, above all, spontaneous. A...
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January 18, 2011 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Liga Ozolina
The European Journalism Observatory is pleased to announce the latest addition to our network of partners, EJO Latvia! With the help of Ainars Dimants, Associate Professor of Journalism and Communications Research and Liga Ozolina, PhD...
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October 7, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Modern wars are fought on at least two frontiers. There’s the military battlefield, and then there’s the media front, where the visceral darkness of war (collateral damages, tragedy, human suffering) must be distorted in order to...
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