Various new possibilities and challenges are generated by digital and social media and large available data-sets for conducting research focused on ever-developing online news ecosystems, write Niina Sormanen, Jukka Rohila, … Continued

Data journalism education often fails to properly address issues related to ethics, accountability and transparency, write Sergio Splendore, of University of Milan, Philip Di Salvo, of University of Lugano, Tobias … Continued

When it comes to climate change, many journalists engage in co-production with NGO communicators, write Julia Lück, Antal Wozniak, and Hartmut Wessler, all of University of Mannheim. The authors interviewed … Continued

The career of a Catholic journalist Walter Hagemann can be described as a “rollercoaster”, writes Thomas Wiedemann, of University of Münich. The author researched Hagemann’s writings and other documentary sources, … Continued

Bulgarian journalism is not what its consumers would like it to be, writes Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, of University of Chester. The author analyzed readers’ comments on two Bulgarian news websites. Out … Continued

Traditional content analysis methods should be reconsidered when studying online news, or any online media for that matter, write Michael Karlsson, of University of Karlstad, and Helle Sjøvaag, of University … Continued

Media use can well be researched with surveys, that are submitted through both mail and online, writes Annika Bergström, of University of Gothenburg. The author studied the submissions to a … Continued

Patriotic journalism is a worldwide and well-documented phenomenon among journalists as well as in the academic and public-societal arenas. But most of the research literature is not analytical, writes Avshalom Ginosar. In … Continued

As journalism has migrated from offline to online platforms news production practices have undergone remarkable changes. Contemporary news production is characterized by flexibility and constant delivery of “liquid” news. In this … Continued

In her newly published study Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, of University of Chester analyzes over 1500 comments by national newspapers’ online readers in Bulgaria. She investigates readers’ reactions to articles discussing the media war between … Continued

The two transnational peoples, the Roma and the Sámi, employ different strategies in creating change through journalism, writes Shayna Plaut, of Simon Fraser University. The author interviewed 45 people involved … Continued

Danish tabloid newspaper BT used overt rhetoric to “meta frame” itself as being serious about sports – and to try and reclaim sports journalism’s legitimacy, writes Karsten Pedersen of Roskilde … Continued

The so-called ‘Umbrella movement’ protests in Hong Kong were covered by UK newspapers in an unsurprising manner, writes Colin Sparks, of Hong Kong Baptist University. Sparks reviewed 129 articles published … Continued

When a journalist thinks he or she has gained access to an exclusive source, the journalist is more compelled to follow the source’s lead in framing that news. The conclusion … Continued

Despite the increasing use of online media, traditional news sources remain important at least in some European countries. The fact is revealed in a supplementary report to the Reuters Institute … Continued

A new issue of the Nordicom Review is released. Nordicom Review is a refereed journal that provides forum for media and communication researchers in the Nordic countries. Here’s few examples of … Continued

Emma Davies, of Liverpool John Moores University, Erin O’Leary, of Liverpool John Moores University and John Read, of Swinburne University of Technology study how child abuse and neglect were reported in a sample of newspaper … Continued

Editors Alison Vogelaar and Brack Hale, of Franklin University Switzerland are calling for book chapter proposals for an edited volume exploring the discursive contours of ‘environmental collapse’ that both identify … Continued

UK news media rarely diverged from the narratives offered by established political parties during the 2015 general election, write Martine Moore and Gordon Ramsay, both of King’s College London. They … Continued

UNESCO Research Conference on Safety of Journalists is calling for papers and posters from various research fields that examine freedom of expression and press freedom, and that cover the issues mentioned … Continued

Reuters Institute fellow Chan Jung Park explores in his new paper how regulatory bodies in United Kingdom and South Korea decide on fairness and impartiality issues. He explores the extent to which a … Continued

Studying the ways search engines rank and present news content is a complex task, writes Jacob Ørmen, of University of Copenhagen. Things such as web browsing history may influence which … Continued

The relationships between journalists and scientists are various, but explainable through Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, writes Jannie Møller Hartley, of Roskilde University. The author interviewed both journalists and scientists, and … Continued

Female politicians appear disproportionately seldom in UK daily newspapers, and they are occasionally subject to sexist representations, write Deirdre O’Neilla, of University of Huddersfield, Heather Savigny, of Bournemouth University, and … Continued

A special issue of the journal Medijske studije has been published. It focuses on the media development in the post-communist Central and Eastern European countries over the past 25 years. … Continued

The plurality of viewpoints in news is important to its function, and the state of said plurality should be carefully investigated, argue Christian Baden, of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and … Continued

The readerships of both regional and national newspapers have declined in Denmark over the recent years. Similarly the Danes have cut back on their time spent viewing television. At the … Continued

New article by Carina Jacobi, Wouter van Atteveldt and Kasper Welbers introduces a relatively recent tool for quantitative analysis, Latent Dirichlet Analysis. LDA is an unsupervised topic modelling technique that automatically creates … Continued

Huge amounts of digital content are produced every day. The constant information flow have set new challenges not only for journalism but also journalism scholars. How to describe and analyze the … Continued

The second edition to the third e-book in the European Audiovisual Observatory’s IRIS Themes series is published. The new edition contains summaries of over 240 judgments or Court decisions that are based … Continued