Danish quality newspapers grant more visibility and weight to economic developments than what relevant indicators would call for, write Arjen van Dalen, Erik Albæk, both of University of Southern Denmark, … Continued

The news media is a major source to the general public in matters of science and health. Still journalists and experts tend to differ in what they consider as newsworthy … Continued

The common public sphere, relevant to the European Union, is best described by a discursive public sphere theory, argues Stefanie Walter of University of Mannheim, Germany. Walter compared the pre-collected … Continued

Finnish journalism students would like to find employment in the magazine industry, finds a study conducted at the University of Tampere, Finland. According to the researcher, Jenni Mäenpää, nearly a … Continued

Massimiano Bucchi1 has stated how science communication has moved from mediated to more direct communication from the researcher to consumer. The responsibility held by science journalists has shifted towards the … Continued

A new book edited by Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Heather Savigny and Jenny Alexander takes a look at media, politics and power. The focus is on citizens at the margins: … Continued

In his paper Linus Andersson analyses television news stories which have been reporting on the problems with electronic waste. He presents a perspective on how  this lengthy and ongoing state of environmental … Continued

Conflict, Trauma and the Media Conference in Liverpool is inviting papers for an one-day conference on the theme of conflict, community and representation in the media. The event intends to explore … Continued

What are the new risks being faced by photojournalists? Will there even be professional photojournalists in the future? These and other important questions concerning photojournalism are presented in a new … Continued

A brand new publication the Journal of Alternative and Community Media is calling for papers. The journal is published by Griffith University ePress with support from the IAMCR Community Communication section and … Continued

Annually published journal The journal World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies is calling for papers. Deadline for submitting articles for the journal has been extended till … Continued

Relativist positions in truth claims can mask relations of power and inequality. A critical realist position allows the identification of such structures, claims Eugene Flanagan in a recent article. The … Continued

New article by Nando Malmelin and Sari Virta explores the ways in which the creativity of media professionals is supported and managed under the changing conditions of media work and journalistic practices. Media professionals … Continued

Due to the changes caused by online communication and social media, the media audience is often described as an active one. Janne Matikainen and Mikko Villi study the Finnish media audience’s … Continued

Veterans’ newspapers offered a consistent narrative to diverse veteran organizations that has also endured to later journalism. A new study by Sally Carlton of the University of Western Australia studies … Continued

Carina Jacobi, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw and Nel Ruigrok compare political news in popular and elite print newspapers and their respective online editions during the 2013 National Election Campaign in Austria. They claim … Continued

Editors Barry Turner, Geoff Adams and Sanem Şahin are calling for papers for a book about war reporting. The book will be a compilation of historical and contemporary stories of the war correspondent … Continued

What good does it do to spend your time communicating about your work, instead of actually working on your research project? Research-related communication has become more and more important during … Continued

The use of non-professional or amateur images has become an important component of news coverage of distant crisis events. It plays a decisive role in shaping how audiences collectively recognize and … Continued

The Series Editors of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) invite the submission of book proposals for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education SeriesThe Book … Continued

The Third Nordic Data Journalism Conference (NODA16) is calling for papers For creating the next wave of more collaborative and nuanced data journalism research, papers are called from (but not … Continued

Reflections on Media Education Futures gathers together contributions from the Nordicom’s conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014. The event gathered international researchers in the field, as well as … Continued

How are agency and different sides of a conflict portrayed, when comparing commercial news and nations’ political soft power media? The question is posed by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman in a … Continued

Chapters are called for the book Dynamics of mediatization: Understanding cultural and social change. Mediatization studies examine a wide range of dynamics of media-related transformations. These dynamics vary in form … Continued

In her new article Stephanie Newell explores the paradoxes in British approaches to the control of print media in colonial West Africa between the 1920s and 1940s. Independent newspaper production … Continued

The publishers and editors of the early Finnish women’s magazines watched and learned from their foreign colleagues and the first magazine in Finland was published in 1782. They copied and adapted … Continued

Nordicom-Sweden’s Media Barometer 2014 is now published. The Media Barometer provides data on the access to and use of different media types in the Swedish population. The Barometer measures actual … Continued

How have the digital shift and the need for speed changed the editing process and goals of editing? How can the editor enhance audience participation? asks Kati Toivanen. The newly published paper … Continued

In her newly published article Julian Matthews explores the processes of politicisation and mediation as informing the elite UK newspaper reporting of climate change. Article shows that the politicisation process shapes how … Continued

In 2012 a Swedish newspaper published multiple articles criticising Swedish national level gymnastics for being abusive. In their newly published article Jonas Stier and Helena Blomberg take a look on this case … Continued