ECREA’s international, biannual conference on communication, development and human rights is looking for paper submissions. The conference is organised by ECREA’s International and Intercultural Communication Section, and will be held … Continued

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research is looking for papers for a special issue on Al-Jazeera phenomenon and global journalism. The journal wishes to receive submissions especially from following topics: … Continued

The power process between a journalist and a source shifts during the interview production process, writes Olav Velthuis of University of Amsterdam. In the article, published in the journal Journalism, Velthuis utilizes his four … Continued

A new research project by Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, and the Information Society Project, Yale Law School, Yale University has begun. The impact of charity and tax law/regulation on … Continued

Open journalistic practices such as crowdsourcing create undeniable value to journalism, writes Tanja Aitamurto. But open journalism also challenges the journalistic norms and pressures journalists to compromise some of the most … Continued

  Events this week Today, on Monday 11th May begins the 13th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media in Athens, Greece. The four-day event is organised by Athens Institute for … Continued

A new report has been published in as a part of the Reuters Institute’s Future of Journalistic Work Project, focusing on journalists’ perceptions of the future of journalistic work. This … Continued

The two-day conference Interaction of Media and Politics in the Baltic States ends today. The conference was hosted by Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University and co-organized by Department of Communication … Continued

  Socialist daily press did enable readers to make up their own minds – although in a limited way, write Anke Fiedler of University of Brussels and Michael Meyen of University of Munich. Their … Continued

A two-day symposium in Newcastle University, UK, is looking for papers. The event, titled Discourses of Disorder -Representations of Riots, Strikes & Protests focuses on increasingly frequent acts of civil disorder and … Continued

A press history conference is looking for submissions. The conference is titled Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to 1900 will be held 10th-11th September 2015. … Continued

A new PhD dissertation from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been published online. The dissertation is written by Arja Lerssi-Lahdenvesi and is titled Always taking sides on the editorial pages, or … Continued

  This week there are plenty of journalism conferences and other happenings in Europe. From Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th the University of Copenhagen hosts a conference titled Users Across Media in Copenhagen, … Continued

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has been ranked highest in Europe in communication studies in the recently released QS World University Rankings. LSE was the highest scoring university … Continued

A new book called Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting has been published Routledge Research in Journalism. The monograph, written by Valerie Belair-Gagnon, looks at how the BBC has tried to … Continued

A special issue of the journal Digital Journalism has been published as online-first issue. The issue, titled Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity has been divided into two sections: the other … Continued

R. Lance Holbert of Temple University, USA and Christiane Grill of University of Vienna, Austria. In their new essay, the writers analyze SEM-based confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and reveal how it could be … Continued

Journalistic world in Jerusalem is divided over the Palestinism/Israelism -conflict, states Jérôme Bourdon of Tel Aviv University in his paper published in the journal Journalism. The paper, titled Strange strangers: The Jerusalem correspondents in … Continued

A new PhD thesis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, has been published online. The thesis, titled Towards a sustainable media system : Explorative studies of emerging media consumption trends … Continued

  The Finnish big data research project Digivaalit 2015 (“Cyber Elections 2015”) analyzed nearly 200 000 tweets concerning the Finnish parliamentary elections held 19th April 2015. The first results show that hashtags … Continued

A special issue of the journal Journalism Practise has been published as online-first issue. The issue, titled Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity has been divided into two sections: the other part … Continued

A new PhD thesis from Dublin City University has been published online. In the thesis, Henry Silke writes about the growing symbiotic relationship between business, communication networks and the mass media. … Continued

Although journalists still hold the cultural authority as knowledge creators, professional satire news sites mimic naturalized news formats. This is the two-fold argument presented by Tom van Hout of Leiden University/University of … Continued

Although the role of social media has been well-covered in the forming of Arab Spring, the impact of journalism has been less addressed. In their article, Fatima el Issawi of University of Essex … Continued

The second test implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) research project is about to launch. The project seeks to create an uniform scale of potential risks threatening media pluralism in … Continued

A new book in the Routledge series Shaping Inquiry in Culture has been published, titled Boundaries of Journalism – Professionalism, Practices and Participation.  The book addresses the questions of boundaries and … Continued

  This week sees the International Journalism Festival, held in Perugia, Italy. The festival begins on Wednesday 15th and includes several panel discussions, workshops and presentations during the five days. The … Continued

A book purchase for a private person is often “forever”. Many of us adore books and enjoy simply having them around, to browse at leisure or to be coffee table … Continued

A new issue of the journal European Journal of Communication has been published. As always, we cherry-picked the articles interesting from the point of view of journalism research. Dolors Comas-d’Argemir of Universitat … Continued

An ECREA TWG conference about urban media studies calls for papers and panels. The conference, organized by Faculty of Political Science of University of Zagreb, is held 24th to 25th September … Continued