Members of the European Parliament have news value in national papers mostly because of local reasons, write Katjana Gattermann, of Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies, and Sofia Vasilopoulou, of … Continued

The Swedish audience has only modest interest in participatory journalism, write Michael Karlsson, Christer Clerwall, Karin Fast, all of Karlstadt University, and Annika Bergström, of University of Gothenburg (names not … Continued

Czech politicians are highly dissatisfied with the country’s national journalism, writes Roman Hájek, of Charles University in Prague. Hájek lead a survey of Czech parliament members in order to gauge … Continued

The 4th International Crisis Communication Conference in Helsingborg, Sweden, is now looking for submissions. The event focuses on four “intersections” distinguishable in crisis communication. One of these sub-themes is the … Continued

A conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ankara University’s Faculty of Communication is accepting submissions. The conference, titled “‘Constructing’ Middle East: Media, Ideology and Culture” will be held in Ankara, … Continued

Critical reflection is best taught through practice, writes Morten Kronstad, of University of Bergen. Kronstad based his findings on the interviews and observations of Norwegian, tertiary level journalism students. At … Continued

News stories constructed to a narrative format are easier for young people to comprehend, write Katharina Emde, Christoph Klimmt and Daniela Schlütz, all of Hanover University of Music, Drama and … Continued

The way United Nations Security Council (UNSC) describes political events relating to the spreading of nuclear weapons technology is quite different from how up-market newspapers put things. Malcolm MacDonald, Alexandra … Continued

On a political parallellism scale from 0 to 20, media companies in five large European countries land between 9 and 14, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) … Continued

A cross-country survey of European journalists reveal most of them find current self-regulating measures only moderately effective, writes Susanne Fengler, of TU Dortmund University. The results come from a twelve-country … Continued

The ways how Israeli press has written about the country’s national soccer team has changed over the years. These changes are largely the result of changes in Israeli national identity … Continued

A conference by European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) on political communication is awaiting proposals. The overarching theme of the conference is “Changing political communication, changing Europe?”. The event … Continued

A conference on British and Irish journalism between 1800 and 1900 is accepting paper proposals. The event, titled “Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from … Continued

Spanish mainstream press will write extensively of their political opponents’ scandals, but lay low when their allies come under fire, write Frank Baumgartner, of University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continued

The peruse of large databases lends itself well to collaboration between journalists, and even the public, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) fellow Alexandre Léchenet. He is … Continued

International Media Management Academic Association’s (IMMAA) annual conference is now open for paper proposals. The submission system is open between February the 10th and the deadline is set for May … Continued

The king of England, Charles Stuart (Charles II, 1630-1685), was depicted in different ways during his exile (or Interregnum) by early British press, writes Benjamin Woodford, of University of Waterloo. … Continued

Three of the most prominent German newspaper were all taken in by a mythical narrative surrounding the political shooting star, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Stine Eckert, of Wayne State University, took … Continued

Despite the common misconception, the line between journalists and authors was not as clear-cut durin belle époque France, writes Marieke Dubbelboer, of University of Bristol. The author uses the career … Continued

This year’s NordMedia conference, to be held in Copenhagen in late summer, is looking for submissions. The event, titled “Media Presence – Mobile Modernities” has a total of eleven divisions … Continued

New information on German data journalism has been put to the books. Stefan Weinacht, of Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, and Ralf Spiller, of Macromedia University of Applied Sciences conducted … Continued

Majority of journalists are committed to developing paid digital content, while most of the public is unwilling to pay for it, write Txema Ramirez de la Piscina, Beatriz Zabalondo, Alazne … Continued

Twitter messages, or tweets, make extensive use of mainstream media’s news pieces, while the opposite hardly happens, write Tony McEnery, Mark McGlashan and Robbie Love, all of Lancaster University. They … Continued

The introduction of networked media helped the rise of racist prejudice in Finnish public paradigm, Kaarina Horsti, of University of Jyväskylä writes. She gives the splintering of Finnish media landscape … Continued

Very few sources have remained of the earliest Irish journalists associations, writes Mark O’Brien, of Dublin City University. He has composed an overview of the history of journalistic professionalization in … Continued

The concept of storytelling and its value to journalism has been under debate for some time, yet the discussion has made little to no progress, write Tim Groot Kormelink and … Continued

Newspapers describe different subgroups of men in different terms, note Paul Baker, of Lancaster University, and Erez Levon, of Queen Mary University of London. They used a two-pronged research method … Continued

Different British newspapers approached the case of whistleblower Edward Snowden in very different ways, Jens Branum and Jonathan Charteris-Black, both of University of West of England, confirm. They conducted a … Continued

British propaganda efforts during the Second World War were able to heighten the French opinion of the United Kingdom, writes Kay Chadwick, of University of Liverpool. BBC’s French Service broadcast … Continued

The conference titled “Re-Inventing Journalism” will start off on Thursday in Winterthur, Switzerland. There’s also a get-together on Wednesday evening, but it features no academic content apart from its attendees. … Continued