The international conference titled “Media Business Landscapes” will go live on Thursday. The two-day event is organized by and at the Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal. It’s a part of … Continued

News outlets in different countries covered the 2012 London Olympics in different ways, write Kaori Hayashi, Sunyoung Kwak, both of University of Tokyo; James Curran, of Goldsmiths, University of London; … Continued

The Guardian’s Changing Media Summit is just around the corner. The two-day event is a high-profile industry meet-up with a focus on the business side of surviving the digital media … Continued

Journalists largely depend on traditional methods of verification when checking information originating from social media, write Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Marika Lüders, Asbjørn Følstad, all of the research company SINTEF, Jochen … Continued

Since the world of academic literature is awash with dubious enterprises, one can but ask what core aspect really makes for a good journal? Procedure, particularly of peer-reviewed journals, separates … Continued

Media markets in Nordic countries can no longer be defined as overarchingly “democratic corporatist” as defined by Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini, argues Jonas Ohlsson, of University of Gothenburg. Ohlsson … Continued

News on economy, especially in times of downturn, affect the audience’s expectations of future economic prospects, writes Juliane Lischka, of University of Zürich. The author studied thousands of news pieces … Continued

Stories on stay-at-home mothers have seen a sharp increase in British newspapers, writes Shani Orgad, of the London School of Economics. Orgad and Sara De Benedictis, of King’s College London, … Continued

ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Conference is looking now for submissions. The event’s title is “Audience research in a ‘post-media’ age? Reflections on media-centric and non-media centric approaches to researching … Continued

A new, thematic issue of the open access journal Networking Knowledge has been published. Titled “Mediating Gaza”, it reflects upon the contemporary state of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis in media. Two … Continued