706 journalists facing violence, imprisonment and harassment have gone into exile worldwide between 2000 and 2011. Most of them have not been able to return home. Conor O’Loughlin and Pytrik Schafraad aim to … Continued

Television news that present a lot of on-screen visual elements are harder to remember correctly, write Rui Rodrigues, of Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, and Ana Veloso and Óscar Mealha, both … Continued

An interdisclipinary conference on climate change is now looking for submissions. Titled “Climate Change: Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics”, the event will take place in Brighton, UK, on the 28th … Continued

The gazette form of printed news came to Spain from Italy and became standardized already in the early 1600’s, writes Carmen Espejo, of University of Sevilla. The author compares the … Continued

In their newly published study Tony Harcup and Deirdre O’Neill examine news values within mainstream journalism and considers to what extent news values may have changed since their earlier 2001 updating of Galtung and … Continued

March issue of New Media and Society is out now. The articles explore themes such as digitization and professional photojournalism, Twitter’s diffusion in sports journalism and user engagement with online news. … Continued

  New issue of International Journal of Communication is now published. It includes many interesting articles for journalism enthusiasts. Take a look at these examples among others: Kate Wright generates a … Continued

Because of technological advances anyone with a computer and willingness to communicate news can claim themselves journalists. Professional code allows us to distinguish between a journalist and an ethical journalist, writes … Continued

Fresh issue of Journal of media Ethics is now published. It features a group of articles that explore the nature of moral obligation among media professionals. The issue also includes Cases … Continued