Open journalistic practices such as crowdsourcing create undeniable value to journalism, writes Tanja Aitamurto. But open journalism also challenges the journalistic norms and pressures journalists to compromise some of the most … Continued

  Events this week Today, on Monday 11th May begins the 13th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media in Athens, Greece. The four-day event is organised by Athens Institute for … Continued

A new report has been published in as a part of the Reuters Institute’s Future of Journalistic Work Project, focusing on journalists’ perceptions of the future of journalistic work. This … Continued

The two-day conference Interaction of Media and Politics in the Baltic States ends today. The conference was hosted by Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University and co-organized by Department of Communication … Continued

  Socialist daily press did enable readers to make up their own minds – although in a limited way, write Anke Fiedler of University of Brussels and Michael Meyen of University of Munich. Their … Continued

A two-day symposium in Newcastle University, UK, is looking for papers. The event, titled Discourses of Disorder -Representations of Riots, Strikes & Protests focuses on increasingly frequent acts of civil disorder and … Continued

A press history conference is looking for submissions. The conference is titled Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to 1900 will be held 10th-11th September 2015. … Continued

A new PhD dissertation from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been published online. The dissertation is written by Arja Lerssi-Lahdenvesi and is titled Always taking sides on the editorial pages, or … Continued

  This week there are plenty of journalism conferences and other happenings in Europe. From Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th the University of Copenhagen hosts a conference titled Users Across Media in Copenhagen, … Continued

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has been ranked highest in Europe in communication studies in the recently released QS World University Rankings. LSE was the highest scoring university … Continued