Media companies’ performance can not be measured with the same yardstick as that of industrial companies’, write Reinhard E. Kunz, Johannes Siebert and Joschka Mütterlein, all of University of Bayreuth. … Continued

Under the title “Books of the week”, JRN will list new, relevant publications that have recently become available. Click the title of the book for further information on the publisher’s … Continued

Large legacy news organisations are investing heavily in their online expansion, a new Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) report reveals. It is authored by Alessio Cornia, Annika … Continued

A symposium on European media cultures during the Cold War is looking for paper submissions. The event will take place in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, USA, on the 30th of March and … Continued

Newspapers in the political right and left cover news differently, a study by Sangwon Lee and Jihyun Esther Paik, both of University of Wisconsin-Madison, confirms. The authors analysed the coverage … Continued

The global platforms in search engines, content aggregation and social media are challenging long-standing regulatory systems of media. How can media pluralism be studied and assessed in the age of … Continued

France 24’s coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack against the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine depicted Islam as a cause of the attack, write Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi, of London School of Economics … Continued

Reporting terrorism is riddled with pitfalls, warns Charlie Beckett, of London School of Economics. Beckett reviews the contemporary practices of making news on terrorism, and the issues thereof, in a … Continued

The Canadian Journal of Communication is seeking papers for its special issue on production of energy titled “Communicating Power: Energy, Canada and the Field(s) of Communication”. [spoiler title=’Read the full … Continued

Large parts of the Dutch society, both rich and poor, were reading newspapers already in the 17th century, writes Michiel van Groesen, of Leiden University. The author investigated works of … Continued