Journalists have an ethical responsibility to protect vulnerable groups and individuals, but also to shed light on their stories and include their perspectives, writes Anna Grøndahl Larsen. Children are a particularly … Continued

Guest editors of the International Communication Gazette are calling for papers for special issue on digital constitutionalism. Summer 2018 issue is called Human rights and power limitation in the internet eco-system Possible topics for … Continued

Multiskilled teams consisting of journalists, designers and developers are necessary for production of innovative and engaging digital journalism, writes RISJ fellow and former managing editor of Olivia magazine in Finland Ninni … Continued

Do different political orientation of newspapers guarantee plurality in coverage? ask Susana Salgado, of University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences and Heinz-Werner Nienstedt, of  University of Mainz. The article looks at … Continued

According to The European Journalism Observatory (EJO) analysis Europe’s newspapers were overwhelmingly negative towards Brexit. EJO conducted a content analysis of the print editions of three daily newspapers in each of 12 … Continued

New MeCoDEM working paper written by Judith Lohner, Sandra Banjac and Irene Neverla is published. The paper maps the role of journalistic actors in transitional societies when covering democratisation conflicts. The writers draw … Continued

The journalistic practice of “monologisation”, removing interview questions from the end product, can severely mislead readers, writes Lauri Haapanen of University of Helsinki. Haapanen compared the recordings of journalistic interviews … Continued

People who are neither professional journalists nor typical audience members participate in producing journalism for many different reasons, writes Laura Ahva, of University of Tampere. Ahva interviewed 69 actors associated … Continued

China’s attempt to exert soft power through a global English language news channel, CCTV News, is in vain, writes John Jirik, a Turkey-based independent researcher. Jirik worked for the channel … Continued