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ARTICLE: Chinese foreign correspondents are different from Westerners – but not alien

Chinese foreign correspondents share “many similarities with their Western counterparts” while still maintaining “distinctive features of their own”, write Shixin Ivy Zhang, the University of Nottingham Ningbo, and Xiaoling Zhang, of the University of Nottingham. The authors interviewed 19 Chinese journalists deployed in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The authors used a new framework … Continued

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Published: 20 Apr 2017
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ARTICLE: Depicting the American soldier abroad

The reporting style of Ernie Pyle during WWII strongly influenced war reporting and journalism in the United States. A new article by Richard Fine of Virginia Commonwealth University looks at the development of this style. The war reporting style emerged during the British-American invasion of French North Africa in 1942–1943. Reporting conditions in North Africa … Continued

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Published: 18 Apr 2017

ARTICLE: Foreign correspondents using chat apps during unrest

Chat apps have taken on a heightened significance in reporting political unrest, particularly in terms of audience/reporter distinctions, sourcing of information, and community formation, write Valerie Belair-Gagnon and Colin Agur, of University of Minnesota and Nicholas Frisch, of University of Yale. Their article explores how foreign correspondents used chat apps, such as Whatsapp, to cover political … Continued

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Published: 7 Apr 2017
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ARTICLE: ITAR-TASS is influenced by Kremlin’s wishes

The Russian state-owned ITAR-TASS news agency echoes the tone of the official Kremlin narrative, Kohei Watanabe, of London School of Economics, writes. Watanabe algorithmically analysed over 87 000 ITAR-TASS news stories on the Ukrainian crisis and compared them to over 100 000 stories by an independent Russian news agency, Interfax. The author first identified a … Continued

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Published: 31 Mar 2017
Oliver Hahn interview

VIDEO: Global journalism and virtual foreign correspondence

Oliver Hahn, Professor of Journalism at the University of Passau talked to us about his work on international comparisons and cultural differences in journalism. He brings out interesting findings from his research into virtual foreign correspondence. Lastly, Hahn tells about his new project about digital investigative journalism. The interview was filmed at the ECREA 2016 … Continued

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Published: 31 Mar 2017
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ARTICLE: A Republican in the White House, more news on Israel

The party affiliation of the president of the United States affects the amount of news US newspapers publish on Israel, write Moran Yarchi and Amnon Cavari, both of Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, with Shira Pindyck, of University of Pennsylvania. The authors analysed algorithmically over 56 000 newspaper articles published by three American newspapers, The New York … Continued

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Published: 27 Mar 2017

ARTICLE: Visual coverage of the European refugee crisis

In their new article Xu Zhang, of University of Tennessee, and Lea Hellmueller, of University of Houston, examine the evidence of global journalism practices in visual news content by analyzing 287 photographs published on CNN International and Der Spiegel online news sites. The findings illustrate significant differences between the two news sites. For example both … Continued

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Published: 14 Feb 2017

ARTICLE: The problem of unequal world news

The unbalanced coverage of the world in the news has been subjected to concerns at least for a century, write Elad Segev, of Tel Aviv University. The author explores how the level of inequality differs across different regions and news source types on the internet. The study covers world news from 16 countries in five regions: … Continued

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Published: 8 Feb 2017
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ARTICLE: News fixers go under-appreciated

Anglophone journalists by and large under-appreciate the contributions and lives of local fixers, Lindsay Palmer, of University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes. Palmer analysed 189 fixer-related articles from six journalism trade publications from the US, UK, and Canada. Some of the articles considered the fixers’ point of view: their safety, the credit they’re given, and the value … Continued

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Published: 30 Jan 2017
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ARTICLE: Why some conflicts become news while others don’t

A handful of factors affect which conflicts get covered and which become “stealth conflicts”, write Thomas Zerback and Johannes Holzleitner, both of Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. The authors analysed over 23 000 articles published in two German newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung, between 1992 and 2013. The most important precursor to a conflict’s prominence … Continued

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Published: 24 Jan 2017