Critical reflection is best taught through practice, writes Morten Kronstad, of University of Bergen. Kronstad based his findings on the interviews and observations of Norwegian, tertiary level journalism students. At … Continued

News stories constructed to a narrative format are easier for young people to comprehend, write Katharina Emde, Christoph Klimmt and Daniela Schlütz, all of Hanover University of Music, Drama and … Continued

The way United Nations Security Council (UNSC) describes political events relating to the spreading of nuclear weapons technology is quite different from how up-market newspapers put things. Malcolm MacDonald, Alexandra … Continued

On a political parallellism scale from 0 to 20, media companies in five large European countries land between 9 and 14, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) … Continued

A cross-country survey of European journalists reveal most of them find current self-regulating measures only moderately effective, writes Susanne Fengler, of TU Dortmund University. The results come from a twelve-country … Continued

The ways how Israeli press has written about the country’s national soccer team has changed over the years. These changes are largely the result of changes in Israeli national identity … Continued

A conference by European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) on political communication is awaiting proposals. The overarching theme of the conference is “Changing political communication, changing Europe?”. The event … Continued

A conference on British and Irish journalism between 1800 and 1900 is accepting paper proposals. The event, titled “Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from … Continued

Spanish mainstream press will write extensively of their political opponents’ scandals, but lay low when their allies come under fire, write Frank Baumgartner, of University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continued

The peruse of large databases lends itself well to collaboration between journalists, and even the public, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) fellow Alexandre Léchenet. He is … Continued