Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 2017 conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research – IAMCR. The conference theme is Transforming Culture, … Continued

Freelance journalists use more serious profile pictures on their Facebook fan pages than employed journalists, write Serena Carpenter, Duygu Kanver and Rashad Timmons, all of Michigan State University. The authors … Continued

Issue frames of climate change conferences converge across countries, while narratives are more diverse and country-specific, a new study states. Authors of this cross-national paper are Julia Lück of the … Continued

The second Transnational Journalism History conference is now accepting submissions. The event will take place on the 9th and 10th of June 2017 in Dublin, Ireland. The organisers welcome submissions … Continued

Collaboration between different kinds of newsrooms already exists, but further networking is constrained by large, legacy media organisations’ reluctance to share their audiences, John A. Hatcher and Dana Thayer, both … Continued

Journalists are supposed to balance government surveillance with their own, but the power balance is against them, Anthony Mills and Katharine Sarikakis, both of University of Vienna, write. The authors … Continued

A one-day conference entitled “Provincial Newspapers: Lessons from History” is looking for paper proposals. The conference will take place on the 8th of September 2017 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The … Continued

The way statistics are used in journalism is in most cases inadequate, write Stephen Cushion, Justin Lewis, and Robert Callaghan, all of Cardiff University. The authors analysed nearly seven thousands … Continued

An upcoming conference, entitled “Discourses of and on Europe. About old and new fears…” is now looking for paper proposals. The conference will take place in Turin, Italy, on the … Continued

Newspaper and television journalists continue to distrust each other, Vincent Filak, of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, writes. Filak surveyed 191 US journalists over their thoughts on newsroom convergence, and compared those … Continued