The websites of Norwegian newspapers offer high-traffic pieces for free, but charge for resource-intensive content, writes Helle Sjøvaag, of University of Bergen. Sjøvaag conducted parallel longitudinal researches on three newspapers’ … Continued

The journal Journalism Studies has published a small batch of online-first articles. We took a look at the three articles and summarized them below.   Sarah Van Leuven, of Ghent … Continued

A new issue of the open access journal Journal of Media Innovations is out. As described in its introductory editorial, the issue provides a “diverse bouquet” of media scholarship. Included … Continued

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 … Continued

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is looking for abstracts of papers for their conference held in October 2015 in Oxford, UK. The conference is named “Negoatiating Culture: … Continued

  The Olympic Games are an avenue to discuss British national identity, write Ryan J. Thomas of University of Missouri-Columbia and Mary Grace Antony of Schreiner University. Thomas and Antony … Continued

Pressure in the academic world is high. In order to succeed in competition for funding and positions, a researcher must be efficient in producing academic outputs, such as publications and … Continued

Hungarian state allocates its advertising spending unfairly, states a new report on Hungarian media by Mertek Media Monitor. The report, published this January, warns that the state’s politically biased advertising … Continued

A conference on Digital Culture and Communication held by its namesake ECREA section is seeking paper abstracts from many diverse theoretical and empirical approaches. The conference discusses the theme of standards … Continued

  After the Second World War, repatriated Germans helped create a new generation of journalistis, writes Hans-Ulrich Wagner of Hans Bredow Institute. These Germans, who had been working for the … Continued