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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August 23, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Guardian creates governmental truth-tracking tool. Emerging as leaders in “data journalism” and celebrated for launching a sharp bunch of free, simplified analysis tools, The Guardian releases its latest creation: The Pledge...
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July 2, 2010 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
PEJ and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life release study on Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal. Analysis dealt with media coverage of the Catholic Church scandal in Europe and the U.S. from 2002 – 2010, with a particular...
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June 18, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
How neurological elements of arousal play into news According to Jack Fuller, author of What is Happening to News? The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, we can count indefinitely on fear and sex to attract the eye. While...
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April 20, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
New study explores ideological segregation on the Web. According to David Brooks of the New York Times, “In the mid-20th century, Americans got most of their news through a few big networks and mass-market magazines. People were...
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April 15, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
The 210-year-old Library of Congress will begin archiving Tweets. Twitter, the blogging service responsible for popularizing 140-character microblips of “information” (define loosely), will join the ranks of culturally...
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April 13, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Journalist Nicholas Jones discusses the maladies of celebrity reportage and the effect on British journalism. Occasionally crass, often contrived star-riddled stories plague the UK press, and according to Jones, the ethical slips...
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