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How Journalists Evade Censors
All dictatorships and authoritarian regimes censor the media in some way. The reason is obvious: a free press will usually investigate the actions of government officials, give space to the opposition...
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Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make Up or Break Up?
The relationship between technology companies and journalism is uneasy and complicated, but journalism needs to be at least an equal partner, according to Emily Bell, Director at the Tow Centre for...
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Research: Crowdfunding Will Not Save Journalism
Traditional publishing business models have been challenged in the past decade as advertising revenues and profits decline. At the same time alternative business models have started to appear....
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Research: The Role Of The Fixer In Foreign News
In modern foreign news reporting a ‘fixer’ is becoming as essential to the journalistic process as a foreign correspondent. Without a fixer – a local person hired to help with logistics, contacts and...
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Research: Academics In The Newsroom
If you think about journalism as a particular culture, it is only logical to study it like other cultures—by going out into the field and examining it at close range. That is why a new generation of...
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Research: Is Digitalisation Killing Photojournalism?
Photojournalism is a threatened profession, according to new research. Over the last two decades digitalisation has led to the most fundamental changes since the invention of photography. New...
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Wolfgang Blau: What Is Mobile Journalism?
While I love checking out the production gear of ‘mobile journalists’, I wish the words ‘mobile journalism’ would primarily refer to journalism that is being read/viewed on mobile devices, instead of...
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Superficial And Eurosceptic? British Press Coverage Of The EU
British press coverage of Europe is often superficial, one-sided, and eurosceptic, according to academics and journalists speaking at a recent conference on Britain’s place in the EU. Speakers at the...
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Vox: Using Data To Tell (And Share) Better Stories
Allison Rockey is nothing if not game. Within the first minute of her presentation to a room full of experienced English journalists she admitted she a) wasn’t a journalist and b) had been in digital...
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Czech Republic: Media Undermines Trust In Politics
Most MPs in the Czech Republic believe the media undermines trust in politics and almost half believe the media has a negative impact upon democracy. Politicians also think that many journalists are...
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On Social Media Propaganda Spreads Faster Than Truth
An alarm signal is sounding from Italy. Media researchers there have analysed how misinformation and conspiracy theories spread via social networks, such as Facebook, much faster than news from more...
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Digital News Report: Hopeful Signs In Digital News Provision
Smartphones and tablets are increasing consumption of news on digital platforms and more customers are accessing digital news throughout the day, according to the 2015 Digital News Report from the...
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Research: Gays In The Headlines, Comparing Russia And Germany
If you try typing the terms ‘homosexuality’ or ‘gay’ into Yandex News, Russia’s most widely-used search engine, no results will be displayed. Readers are given the impression that these themes do not...
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10 Apps That Will Immediately Boost Your Mobile Reporting
It’s not far fetched to say that David Ho knows a thing or two about mobile and online journalism. He was founding editor of the Wall Street Journal’s iPad edition in 2010, back when tablets were still...
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Research: Crowdfunding Will Not Save Journalism
Traditional publishing business models have been challenged in the past decade as advertising revenues and profits decline. At the same time alternative business models have started to appear....
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Religion And The Media: Why Journalists Must Get It Right
The cry of many people who are religious or who know religions well, is that the media usually ‘just do not get religion’. Evidence for this charge is hard to gather, but even at a superficial level,...
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Research: Media Coverage Of The Danish National Election 2015
Denmark’s latest general election was held on the 18th of June and, as always, the news media’s coverage of the event was a subject of public debate. Especially two points: the first, was the question...
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Berlin ‘Personalised News’ Start-Up Goes Global
Located in an airy office in Berlin’s Mitte neighbourhood, newscase is a fast-growing, profitable Berlin journalism start-up – without any journalists. Newscase is an aggregator with a difference. It...
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Czech Republic: Media Undermines Trust In Politics
Most MPs in the Czech Republic believe the media undermines trust in politics and almost half believe the media has a negative impact upon democracy. Politicians also think that many journalists are...
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Loathing Thy Neighbour: Reporting Grexit
Please, beware of headlines promising to explain the Greek crisis in a nutshell. There is no fast and simple explanation to the problem. Only the minds of those trying to sum it up in a few clichés are...
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