A new research project has been launched to map out the sources from which Finns find information on violent crime, and how that information affects their perceptions on the actual … Continued

On week 11 the following publications have come to our attention: Minorities and Media: Producers, Industries, Audiences Edited by John Budarick and Gil-Soo Han Published by Palgrave Macmillan 204 pages … Continued

The Radio Journal is calling for articles for its upcoming special issue on community radio. Entitled “Current roles and contemporary challenges”, the issue is set to publish in October 2017. … Continued

Journalists don’t think that automated production of journalism is, in its current form, very useful, a study by Neil Thurman (City, University of London), Konstantin Dörr (University of Zurich), and … Continued

A new special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication is now published. The magazine addresses issues related to activism and communication scholarship in Canada. It also includes some interviews, … Continued

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, talked to us about his research. He discussed about his … Continued

The article by Anders Sundnes Løvlie, of IT University of Copenhagen, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, of University of Oslo and Anders Olof Larsson, of Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, studies users’ … Continued

Isabelle Krebs, of University of Zurich conducted an experimental study on news media brands in Switzerland. The study explores if readers evaluate the quality of the news articles based on the … Continued

New issue of Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies is now published. The issue features articles from both academics and practitioners, who explore issues from normative questions about the role … Continued

The European Data and Computational Journalism Conference invites submissions on the subjects of journalism, data journalism, and information, data, social and computer sciences. The event is organised at the University College … Continued

Teens and young adults express low levels of trust in the news media, finds a new report by Data & Society Research Institute. The report studies youth news consumption behavior on mobile … Continued

Funding journalism through charitable donations in the Global South may allow funders to exert influence over newsrooms, Anya Schiffrin of Columbia University writes in a report published by the Center … Continued

The 5th Internation Crisis Communication Conference is calling for paper proposals. The event is organised by the Crisis Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association. It will … Continued

News organisations large and small are experimenting with a wide variety of distributed content models, media and communications consultant Kevin Anderson writes in a recent Reuters Institute report. The document … Continued

A conference entitled “‘Fake news!’: an historical perspective” is calling for paper proposals. The event is organised by the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI), and will take … Continued

The Mapping Media Freedom (MMF) project has launched its annual report in observance of the ongoing Media Freedom month. The project is run by the organisation Index on Censorship and … Continued

Online news about teenagers’ sexuality employ double standards according to race and gender, write Jennifer F. Chmielewski, Deborah L. Tolman, and Hunter Kincaid, all of City University of New York. … Continued

On week 10 the following publications have come to our attention: Global journalism and the coverage of “Third World” development Written by Jairo Lugo-Ocando and An Nguyen Published by Routledge … Continued

Conference entitled “Audiences2030: Imagining a future for audiences” is calling for paper proposals. The event will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 28th and 29th of September 2017. The … Continued

How do data journalists lay claim to the truth? Eddy Borges-Rey, of University of Stirling, investigated the “epistemology of data journalism” in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which he calls … Continued

What do citizens think of citizen journalism? Michael Karlsson and Christer Clerwall of Karlstad University and Lars Nord of Mid Sweden University used a survey and focus group interviews to … Continued

A conference entitled “Excavating Media: Devices, Processes, Apparatuses” is calling for paper proposals. The conference is hosted by the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, on the 30th of June … Continued

We interviewed Elizabeth Stur of Mid Sweden University, Asta Cepaite of Lund University and Lottie Jangdal of Mid Sweden University about their new project on hyperlocal media in Sweden. They … Continued

The Canadian newspapers’ discourse on the use of Tasers changed after Robert Dziekanski died after the device was deployed against him, write Nicole Neverson, of Ryerson University, and Charles T. … Continued

On 22.7.2011 a terrorist attack killed 77 people in Norway, most of them youth on a summer camp on Utøya island. A total of 490 campers survived the massacre, many … Continued

A conference entitled “Mediating Cultural Work: Texts, Objects and Politics” is looking for paper and panel proposals. The conference is organised by the Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, … Continued

New legal and technical developments have made British journalists more vulnerable to spying by the state, a recent report states. It is based on a meeting of 25 “investigative journalists, … Continued

Editors of an upcoming, edited book on conservative media are looking for chapter proposals. The book’s working title is “News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures”, and it is … Continued

The way most US newspapers covered the aftermath of the killing of a Black man by a White police officer worked to hide systemic racism, Nicole Maurantonio, of University of … Continued

Amanda Williams, Maria Victoria Guglietti and Sally Haney, all of Mount Royal University, conducted a case study of how students in an undergraduate Canadian university’s journalism program are conceptualizing the … Continued