Starting a new news media business is difficult in an unstable environment of today. Christoph Sommer of TMT Industries (formerly of the University of Zurich) studied processes and practices of … Continued

A long-lasting ideal in journalism has been that a journalist should be a detached observer of the event being reported, not being a part of it. With the growing popularity … Continued

The Media Sociology Preconference 2018, held in State System @ Center City, Philadelphia, PA, in 10 August 2018, is calling for papers. This preconference, now in its sixth consecutive year, is … Continued

The conference “Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era” is calling for papers. The conference is organized jointly by the Advanced Media Institute, the Open University (Cyprus) … Continued

When discussing mediatization of politics, it is important to distinguish between the different actors involved. Jay G Blumler of the University of Leeds, and Frank Esser of the University of … Continued

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in February 2018 about journalism research. The list is updated a couple of times per week. … Continued

The commonly used term “news ecosystem” is not devoid of normative assumptions, but instead invokes ideological interpretation, Anthony Nadler, of Ursinus College, writes. Nadler’s essay chronicles how the term was … Continued

The Taboo and the Media conference is now accepting paper proposals. The event will be held at Bertinoro, Italy, between the 20th and 22nd of September 2018. The conference is … Continued

The American broadsheet New York Times has increased the use of “borrowed news” in its foreign reporting since 1966, write Daniel Riffe and Seoyeon Kim, both of University of North … Continued

Why do people sometimes choose to read partisan news, but select balanced stories at other times? A team of American scholars investigated the question by analysing survey data from a … Continued