Freelance magazine journalists display strong professional confidence in dealing with ethical dilemmas in their work, Joy Jenkins, of University of Oxford, writes. Jenkins interviewed 14 American freelance journalists over the … Continued

On the week 45 the following publications have come to our attention: Data Journalism: Past, Present and Future Edited by John Mair,‎ Richard Lance Keeble,‎ Megan Lucero Published by Abramis … Continued

Studies regarding media and politics in Latin America usually presume that the press naturally protects the interests of common citizens against corruption and political abuses. A new study by Afonso … Continued

Most comparative research on media systems and journalistic cultures has focused on advanced democracies only. In a new study, researchers analyzed journalistic role performance doing a content analysis for a … Continued

When it comes to older persons, traditional news media is still the first chosen source of information. The study by Karin Ljuslinder and Anna Sofia Lundgren, both of Umeå Universitet, analyses the narratives … Continued

Editors of a book “Women in the Media: Who Creates the News?” call for book chapter proposals. The book wants to examine the position and experience of women in the … Continued

The ICA preconference “Making sense of Election reporting: new directions, new challenges?” is calling for papers. The conference will be held on 24 May 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic. The … Continued

There were geographic and time-related trends in consumption of fake news prior to the US presidential election. Adam Fourney, Miklos Z. Racz,  Gireeja Ranade, Markus Mobius and Eric Horvitz, all … Continued

Teresa Nozal Cantarero and Ana González-Neira, of The University of A Coruña, and Elena Valentini of Sapienza University of Rome, looked at 148 news applications from 20 newspapers in 10 … Continued

Media and Communication seeks abstracts for a thematic issue “Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?”. The issue focuses on questions of if and how the rise of social media … Continued