The International Media Research Symposium: From Traditional to Digital (IMRS) is calling for papers. Organized by Ege University / Antalya AKEV University, the event will be held in İzmir, Turkey … Continued

The quality of automated news is competitive with human journalists for routine tasks, a new study states. Mario Haim, of LMU Munich, and Andreas Graefe, of Macromedia University, Germany, tested … Continued

Diversity of news content can be regarded as an indicator of the quality of reporting. In a new article, a group of researchers figured out what factors determine diversity of … Continued

Cultural journalists, such as book critics, reconcile with subjectivity in various ways, writes Phillipa Chong, of McMaster University, Canada. Chong interviewed 40 book reviewers who write for major American newspapers … Continued

The NordMedia 2017 conference will be held August 17-19, 2017, at the University of Tampere, Finland. The event already starts on the 16th with a pre-conference for doctoral students. The … Continued

The norm of transparency finds only “limited purchase” among German journalists, write Michael Koliska, of Georgetown University, and Kalyani Chadha, of University of Maryland. The authors interviewed 17 German journalists … Continued

Focus of political conversation on Twitter is on the national rather than the local level, write Jaigris Hodson, of Royal Roads University, Canada and April Lindgren, of Ryerson University, Canada. … Continued

The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of original research papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for the IALJS annual convention … Continued

An upcoming special issue of The International Journal of Press/Politics is calling for paper proposals. The issue is themed around “populist communication”, dealing with topics such as the representation of … Continued

On week 32 the following publications have come to our attention: The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies Edited by John Flowerdew and John E Richardson Published by Routledge 638 … Continued