News stories with a constructive angle awaken less negative feelings in children than stories with a traditional format, a team of researchers from the Radboud University in the Netherlands discovered. … Continued

Social media users engage with more news sources per week than non-users do, write Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, both of University of Oxford. The authors analysed survey data … Continued

A conference entitled “Tuning into the Noise of Europe: Conference on a new narrative of Europe in times of crisis” is calling for paper proposals. The event will be hosted … Continued

The 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference is calling for presentation proposals. The event will take place in Auckland, New Zealand, between the 6th and 9th of December 2017. The organisers … Continued

In India, journalism education is offered by hundreds of institutions, and approximately 30 000 aspiring journalists study the craft at any given time. Despite its popularity, the field still faces … Continued

On the weeks 33 and 34 the following publications have come to our attention: In the service of power: Media capture and the threat to democracy Edited by Anya Schiffrin … Continued

How acceptable do journalists see aggressive newsgathering practices? James Hollings and Ravi Balasubramanian, both of Massey University, and Thomas Hanitzsch, of LMU Munich (authors not in original order), aimed to … Continued

In 2015, a powerful tropical storm named Cyclone Pam hit the island nation of Vanuatu in the Pacific. While the events were still unfolding, a local branch of the climate … Continued

People’s perception of a newspaper’s political position can be influenced by design, a research article by Johanna Schindler and Benjamin Krämer, of LMU Munich, and Philipp Müller, of Johannes Gutenberg … Continued

Public service broadcasters in the Western Balkan are increasingly caught between political control and market pressures, being financially dependent on politics or advertisers. Marko Milosavljević and Melita Poler, both of … Continued

How do foreign correspondents in China perceive their professional roles, and how their role perceptions differ across different media systems? asks Yuan Zeng of City University of Hong Kong, in … Continued

Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication at Karlstad talked to us about his research on news ecology. He has studied the small town of Karlstad, Sweden, to see whether … Continued

The conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture is calling papers on the topic “Media, Religion and Public Scholarship”. The conference will be held 8-11 of August … Continued

Politicians who are involved with many issues are more likely to follow the agenda set by news media than specialized politicians are, write Alon Zoizner and Tamir Sheafer, both of … Continued

The Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law (JIMEL), in association with the Southwestern Law Review and Southwestern International Law Journal, invites the submission of papers that fit within the … Continued

How the concept of objectivity should be seen in the digital era full of varying sources of information? Brian McNair, of Queensland University of Technology, argues how objectivity can and … Continued

A special issue of Digital Journalism is calling for papers. Title of the issue is “Journalism History through Digital Archives”. “While analytical methods have been steadily developing in relation to … Continued

MeCCSA 2018 conference is calling for papers. The conference is to be held on 10-12 January 2018 at the School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University. Theme … Continued

The journal Brazilian Journalism Research is calling for papers for its issue on “journalism and gender”. The proposal is to welcome papers that focus on Gender issues in their complexity, … Continued

People’s perceptions of local newspapers are shaped by both personal characteristics and social environments. Masahiro Yamamoto, of the University at Albany and, Seungahn Nah, of the University of Oregon, studied … Continued

Whether an exemplar used in a news article is similar or dissimilar to the audience affects the audience’s empathy and willingness to take political action. The result comes from a … Continued

Both proponents and detractors of newsgames “exaggerate” their impact, write Christoph Plewe, of Free University of Berlin, and Elfriede Fürsich, of University of Pittsburgh. They analysed three refugee or migration … Continued

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