A look at French-speaking Belgium in terms of data journalism reveals severe hindrances and diverse approaches, write Juliette De Maeyer, of University of Montreal, Manon Libert, David Domingo, François Heinderyckx … Continued

The December issue of European Communication Journal is now out and available online. It features five articles, previously published online first earlier this year. Of interest to journalism scholars are … Continued

After revisiting the classic Daniel Hallin & Paolo Mancini study of 2004, authors Michael Brüggemann, Sven Engesser, Florin Büchel, Edda Humprecht and Laia Castro arrive at the conclusion, that instead … Continued

The value of the Finnish media market went down roughly three per-cent in 2013, statistics reveal. In total numbers, the decline amounts to some 150 million euros. Unsurprisingly, publishing sector … Continued

Journalists influence politicians through off-the-record talks, a study performed in Denmark finds. Camilla Dindler, of Aalborg University, came to the conclusion through a series of observations and interviews with both … Continued

The adoption of computational journalism in Los Angeles Times significantly changed the form and nature of the paper’s homicide reporting, write Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida, both of University … Continued

Epistemological tensions arise when journalists create news stories by analyzing huge datasets, writes Sylvain Parasie. Traditional journalistic norms can be reached, but only with significant effort. As the author’s investigation … Continued

Quantitative journalism, or as it would be fashionable to put it, data journalism, is in fact generations old, writes C. W. Anderson. As a milestone on the way to a … Continued

A recently published study details the internet use of Swedes. Internet use is widespread and still growing, and its importance greatest to the young, the study confirms. More surprising is … Continued

A look at Danish media industry shows severe structural issues ahead, write Stig Hjarvard and Aske Kammer in a new online first article of the journal Media, Culture & Society. … Continued

Locality, in terms of both creation and consumption of local news, can fundamentally be seen as habitus as described by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. This argument is furthered by the authors … Continued

A national survey of Danish digital media use has been published. Its results suggest that despite of their widespread use of the internet, Danes are fairly conservative in their habits. … Continued

The all-time second issue of the Journal of Media Innovations is out and available online. As the name of this open access journal suggests, its contents focus heavily on change … Continued

Issue 41(8) of the journal Communication Research is now out and publicly available online. The articles featured in the issue have appeared online first from August 2012 to June 2014. … Continued

The final day of ECC did not show signs of slowing down – at least not in Twitter. Especially plenary session speakers seemed to inspire a lot of conference goers. … Continued

We live in a time in which professional journalists can no longer claim to be the sole purveyors of truthful, unbiased information to the public. Empowered by technology, the public … Continued

The third and final day of European communication conference in Lisbon is about to start. Today’s sessions are mercifully scheduled to finish a time block earlier than yesterday, so the … Continued

The second day of European communication conference, number of original tweets hashtagged #ecrea2014 was 711 from 165 distinct users. Right now the most profilic tweeter during these two days has … Continued

ECREA’s Journalism Studies (JS) held a meeting today in ECC. The most important take-aways of the meeting are summarized below.   1. New website – and a whole new look. … Continued

The second set of todays parallel sessions of journalism studies featured subjects  A) “Practises of journalism: understanding the newsroom” and B) Business strategies in journalism: paywalls, start-ups and crowdfunding. Our … Continued

Readers consider a story composed by a computer algorithm just as credible as one written by a live journalist, demonstrates a paper by Hille van der Kaa and Emiel Krahmer, … Continued

Christian Christensen, of University of Stockholm, denounced the techno-predeterministic view that WikiLeaks came to be, and continues to exists solely because it can. Instead the organization fills an “information void” … Continued

On the first day of European communication conference, over half-thousand tweets hashtagged #ecrea2014 poured out from Lisbon. Yesterday’s most prolific tweeter: Dr. Vilma Luoma-aho (@vilmaluo) with a total of 30 … Continued

The second day of the European communication conference in Lisbon is just some hours shy from starting. Here’s JNR’s quick overview of journalism-related sessions for today. Sessions in Journalism Studies … Continued

ECC ECREA 2014 features many journalism studies sessions this year. One of these session, held today 14.30 – 16.00 at local time, focused on Journalism and Social Media.   Henrik … Continued

The European Communication Conference, arranged by ECREA, begins officially tomorrow on Thursday. As per usual, there are numerous research posters covering all the major themes of the conferences, including journalism … Continued

ECREA has a new research group which focuses on journalism and communication education. They are planning to host their first conference next year in Trier, Germany on March 5-6. Call … Continued

Collected tweets about the first journalism studies session held in ECC ECREA 2014 today 11.15 – 12.45 local time now in Storify.  

      ECC ECREA 2014 session about Digital Culture and Communication was separated into two categories: Journalism and Public Education (A) and Big Data Under the Lens (B). The … Continued