On the week 13/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Russia’s Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free Written by Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova Published by Routledge 222 pages The Routledge Companion … Continued

Leaks are important sources for journalism. Authors Víctor Sampedro, F Javier López-Ferrández and Álvaro Carretero, all from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, divided leaks first into two types: official ones (the … Continued

The 10th The Bridges of Media Education conference is now accepting paper proposals. The event will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, on the 14th and 15th of September 2018. … Continued

How does social media affect contemporary journalism? Patrick Ferrucci, of University of Colorado-Boulder, put the question to 53 American digital journalists and interviewed them over their use of social media. … Continued

The journal Feminist Media Studies is calling for essays for its thematic issue, entitled “Women in Sports Media: New Scholarly Engagements”. The contributions would be published in the journal’s “Commentary … Continued

South Korean newspapers write more often and more positively about their owners and subsidiary companies than of their competitors, a team of South Korean researchers discovered. They analysed 1 362 … Continued

The two-day International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC) titled “New Media Studies: Re-examining Articulations of Theory, Practice and Context” will be held on 21-22 September 2018, at SIMC, Symbiosis … Continued

In their work Indigenous media producers navigate tensions between professional obligations and responsibility towards their communities. Over the course of 12 years, Elizabeth Burrows of Griffith University, interviewed 42 Indigenous … Continued

How do news tweets affect Twitter users and what kind of tweets do they prefer? The authors of a new study examined how perceptions of news tweets differ based upon … Continued

The conference “Ownership Structures and Managerial Challenges in the African Media and Telecommunications Sectors”, held 8-9 November 2018 at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is calling for papers. The conference … Continued