ARTICLE: Journalism students and online journalism

Mads Kæmsgaard Eberhols, Jannie Møller Hartley and Maria Bendix Olsen of Roskilde University study journalism students’ experiences in a course that simulates an online newsroom. The scholars explored the dilemmas that students experience “working” as online journalists and how these are related to broader issues of journalistic ethics. The study showed that many of the problems experienced are perceived by … Continued

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Published: 4 Feb 2016

ARTICLE: Computational in journalism

What can and cannot be calculated is not merely a technical question, it is also a deeply social, cultural, political and economic one, writes Taina Bucher, of University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The focus of the newly published study is on the articulation of computational journalism within news organizations. Bucher found three broad claims about the linkage … Continued

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Published: 15 Jan 2016

ARTICLE: Aging employees in corporate and news media

Corporate media tend to focus on solutions offered by the organization to address issues related to workforce aging, and avoid associations with problems regarding older workers’ employability, write Anne C. Kroon, Martine van Selm, Claartje ter Hoeven & Rens Vliegenthart. The study explores how corporate and news media frame older workers’ employability, and trace the factors that … Continued

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Published: 23 Nov 2015

ARTICLE: News from the future

Political news in Danish newspapers might have become less future-oriented over the 1997–2013 period, write Kenneth Reinecke Hansen of University of Southern Denmark. This is according to the significant decline in modal verbs in the present (future) tense. However, at the same time the articles seem to become slightly more speculative. Methodologically the scholar applied the corpus linguistic methods of keyword … Continued

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Published: 11 Nov 2015

ARTICLE: Slow is the new fast in journalism

Immediacy is seen as one of the key values in journalism as people want to be informed about events and threats as soon as possible. This speed game has strengthened over the past decade because of technological and commercial forces. Will the upcoming digital generation be interested in slow journalism? ask Nico Drok and Liesbeth Hermans. Their … Continued

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Published: 6 Nov 2015

REPORT: Traditional media declines in Denmark

The readerships of both regional and national newspapers have declined in Denmark over the recent years. Similarly the Danes have cut back on their time spent viewing television. At the same time, the use of internet has increased, for various purposes and by various devices. The results were published by the Danish Agency for Culture … Continued

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Published: 16 Oct 2015

ARTICLE: Will they pay for online news?

  Younger audience is more willing to pay for online news if they can combine content from different providers, claim Aske Kammer of University of Southern Denmark along with Morten Boeck, Jakob Vikær Hansen and Lars Juul Hadberg Hauschildt.  Published as an online-first version in Journal of Media Business Studies, the Danish study titled The free-to-fee transition: audiences’ attitudes toward paying for … Continued

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Published: 3 Jul 2015

REPORT: Ethics of journalism under financial pressure

A new, overarching agreement on journalism’s rules of conduct and transparency is sorely needed, writes Aidan White, of Ethical Journalism Network. White is the editor of a recently published study detailing the state of journalism in 18 countries. Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom focuses on the restrictive aspects of … Continued

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Published: 19 Mar 2015

ARTICLE: Why blockbusters get easy coverage

Blockbuster movies receive easy media attention because they carry both “publicist” and media commercial news value, argue Nete N. Kristensen of University of Copenhagen and Unni From, of University of Aarhus. They analyze the coverage of 3 blockbuster movies in Danish newspapers. They argue there is a two-fold reason for high coverage: the promotional culture surrounding … Continued

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Published: 10 Mar 2015