Providing the marginalized with citizen journalism training can result in personal empowerement, write Ann Luce, Daniel Jackson, and Einar Thorsen, all of Bournemouth University. The authors arranged training courses for … Continued

Investigative journalists regard themselves as having autonomy and high job satisfaction, even though there is a lot of pessimism about the state of their work and the future. Gerry Lanosga … Continued

Websites and readers of local newspapers are more likely to embrace commenting, while national papers prefer social media sharing, write Susanne M. Almgren, of Jönköping University, and Tobias Olsson, of … Continued

The heavily discussed issue of Britain’s 2016 referendum on leaving the EU also sprouted many analyses on the media coverage of the topic. Here are four reports that have been … Continued

UK press coverage of the EU membership referendum was dominated by articles in favor of leaving. A new report written by David Levy, Billur Aslan and Diego Bironzo and published … Continued

The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is calling for papers. They are interested in papers that engage with all forms of censorship across East Asia and in cross-comparison papers … Continued

A new form of citizen journalism is emerging from “digital humanitarianism”, writes Wendy Norris, of University of Colorado Boulder. Norris investigated the operations of the volunteer-based Standby Task Force (SBTF) … Continued

A media training program titled “Citizen Health Journalism” had both positive and negative results. A new study by Stuart Davis of Texas A&M International University looks at an experiment from … Continued

Dutch news were important to both have and control to the English state in the late 17th century, writes Jason Peacey, of University College London. Peacey’s recent article looks at … Continued

The US media coverage of the spread of China’s Confucius Institutes across the United States is largley “uncritical”, write Emily T. Metzgar and Jing Su, both of Indiana University. The … Continued