On week 48 the following publications have come to our attention: Death Makes the News – How the Media Censor and Display the Dead Written by Jessica M. Fishman Published … Continued

With contradictory strategic narratives from different parties and governments, propaganda and disinformation, Ukraine’s news media environment has been a difficult one to analyze properly. Joanna Szostek of Royal Holloway, University … Continued

In a report for the United Kingdom’s National Council for the Training of Journalists, Mark Spilsbury explores the reasons for why there is a lack of diversity within the British … Continued

Growing media practitioner mobility, as well as the migration of transnational media corporations across borders and media cultures, gives rise to new questions about how journalistic professionalism travels, write Mei … Continued

Second Symposium of the Society for Media History is calling for papers. The event is titled “I have a dream…” – Media, utopia and experiment and it takes place on … Continued

The ECREA Science and Environment Section invites abstract submissions for an edited volume with the title “When the Local meets the Digital: Implications and Consequences for Environmental Communication”. Scholars are … Continued

Sub-editors hold a position of substantial power, as they are the ‘final frontier’ before news reaches the reader, write Astrid Vandendaele, of Ghent University. Together with layout designers they represent the heart … Continued

International conference on media and communication (ICMC 2018) is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held in March 19-21, 2018 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and it … Continued

An upcoming themed issue of the IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film is now accepting article proposals. The issue is themed “Challenging and Critiquing Reality” and it is scheduled … Continued

How do people choose what news to share – and with whom? Debbie Goh, Richard Ling, Liuyu Huang and Doris Liew, all of Nanyang Technological University, investigated the question by … Continued

The journal Media, War and Conflict is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a conference, and its organisers are now accepting paper and panel proposals. The conference will take place in … Continued

American journalists fear that reporting on possible solutions to crises could make them seem biased, Lauren Kogen, of Temple University, writes. Kogen interviewed 19 American journalists and editors who have … Continued

Ownership concentration is not the only relevant measure of media convergence, although it is the only form that has been researched in the New Zealand context, Merja Myllylahti, of Auckland … Continued

On the week 47 the following publications have come to our attention: Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization Edited by Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink … Continued

Kenya’s largest newspaper, the Daily Nation, self-censored its 2013 election coverage in order to uphold peace and order, Jacinta Maweu, of University of Nairobi, writes. Maweu analysed the paper’s output … Continued

Journalists express uncertainty more often when they are tasked with the fast-paced coverage of unfolding crises, Shelly Rom and Zvi Reich, both of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, write. The … Continued

Svetlana S. Bodrunova and Ivan S. Blekanov of St. Petersburg State University, and Anna A. Litvinenko of Freie Universität Berlin (authors not in original order), looked at Twitter discussions concerning … Continued

Do audiences care about errors in grammar? Alyssa Appelman, of Northern Kentucky University, and Mike Schmierbach, of the Pennsylvania State University, studied how grammatical errors in news articles affect people … Continued

News texts represent and share the most newsworthy events through familiar and conventionalized ways of communication in a specific society, write Afrooz Rafiee, Wilbert Spooren and José Sanders, all of Radboud … Continued

Polls suggest that the great majority of Czech society perceives irregular migrants as a threat to their country. It also seems that their attitude towards migrants has been influenced by … Continued

During the past decade, the fortunes of the newspaper industry changed dramatically, write Christopher Ali, of University of Virginia, and Damian Radcliffe, of University of Oregon. So far, in studying these developments, the researchers … Continued

Native advertising is a form of paid digital content that mimics non-advertising content published on the same platform. You Li, of Eastern Michigan University, explores how the boundary of authority is … Continued

How does news media gather social capital through investigative reporting? Can this capital be used against the deadly drug-related violence in Brazil? These questions were asked by Alice Baroni, of … Continued

Digital native news outlets are not all the same when it comes to topic priorities, write James Painter, of University of Oxford, Silje Kristiansen, of Northeastern University, and Mike S. … Continued

Journalism is seen as part of the same societal elite as political institutions, write Thomas Hanitzsch and Nina Steindl, both of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with Arjen Van Dalen, … Continued

On the week 46 the following publications have come to our attention: Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany Written by Ranjana Das & Anne Graefer Published by Palgrave … Continued

The 9th Radio Conference is calling for contribution proposals. The event is organised by the The Monash University and Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association. The conference will be held … Continued

The paid circulation of African American newspapers has since 1993 declined, and they are instead circulated increasingly as freesheets, write Stephen Lacy and Daniel Krier, both of Michigan State University, … Continued

A special issue of the journal Le Temps des médias is calling for article proposals for its upcoming special issue, themed “Media and attacks”. The issue is scheduled for publication … Continued

Can the media system typology famously proposed by Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini (2004) be applied to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries? This question was put to the test … Continued