The news coverage of the US 2016 presidential campaign was mostly negative throughout, regardless of which candidate the news was about, Thomas E. Patterson of the Harvard Kennedy School writes. … Continued

A conference on the journalistic representations of poverty, entitled “Reporting Poverty: Media Conference”, is looking for paper proposals. The one-day event will take place on May 5th 2017 in Liverpool, … Continued

A large number of smartphone users have downloaded news apps and are interested in using them – yet only a minority of them use said applications, a recent Reuters Institute … Continued

Journalists in developing African and Asian countries have different role conceptions from Western journalists, a multi-national team of researchers has discovered. The team surveyed 2598 journalists in Bangladesh, Botswana, Ethiopia, … Continued

Under the title “Books of the week”, JRN will list new, relevant publications that have recently become available. Click the title of the book for further information on the publisher’s … Continued

The biennial conference of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) is looking for various submissions. The conference, entitled “Democracy, Borders and Public/Political Engagement: Challenges for Environmental Communication” will take place … Continued

Banks, and to a lesser extent automobiles and components industry, enjoy a slightly privileged status in economic news, write Jeroen G. F. Jonkman, Damian Trilling, Piet Verhoeven and Rens Vliegenthart, … Continued

Global Science and Technology Forum’s 6th annual international conference on Journalism & Mass Communications (JMComm 2017) calls for papers. The conference will take place on 9th – 10th October 2017 … Continued

New technologies and available infrastructure present new opportunities for live transmission of news, writes Frode Guribye, of University of Bergen. The study explores new video tools for television news and reports … Continued

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 2017 conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research – IAMCR. The conference theme is Transforming Culture, … Continued

Freelance journalists use more serious profile pictures on their Facebook fan pages than employed journalists, write Serena Carpenter, Duygu Kanver and Rashad Timmons, all of Michigan State University. The authors … Continued

Issue frames of climate change conferences converge across countries, while narratives are more diverse and country-specific, a new study states. Authors of this cross-national paper are Julia Lück of the … Continued

The second Transnational Journalism History conference is now accepting submissions. The event will take place on the 9th and 10th of June 2017 in Dublin, Ireland. The organisers welcome submissions … Continued

Collaboration between different kinds of newsrooms already exists, but further networking is constrained by large, legacy media organisations’ reluctance to share their audiences, John A. Hatcher and Dana Thayer, both … Continued

Journalists are supposed to balance government surveillance with their own, but the power balance is against them, Anthony Mills and Katharine Sarikakis, both of University of Vienna, write. The authors … Continued

A one-day conference entitled “Provincial Newspapers: Lessons from History” is looking for paper proposals. The conference will take place on the 8th of September 2017 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The … Continued

The way statistics are used in journalism is in most cases inadequate, write Stephen Cushion, Justin Lewis, and Robert Callaghan, all of Cardiff University. The authors analysed nearly seven thousands … Continued

An upcoming conference, entitled “Discourses of and on Europe. About old and new fears…” is now looking for paper proposals. The conference will take place in Turin, Italy, on the … Continued

Newspaper and television journalists continue to distrust each other, Vincent Filak, of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, writes. Filak surveyed 191 US journalists over their thoughts on newsroom convergence, and compared those … Continued

Journalism students would benefit from a statistics course specifically tailored for future journalists, Justin D. Martin, of Northwestern University in Qatar, argues. Martin surveyed all four-year journalism programs in the … Continued

Under the title “Books of the week”, JRN will list new, relevant publications that have recently become available. Click the title of the book for further information on the publisher’s … Continued

The deadline to submit abstracts for the upcoming Tracing entanglements in media history conference has been extended. The event will take place in Lund, Sweden, between 17th and 19th of … Continued

Why is there only scant public discussion on the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance? asks a recently published essay by Felicity Ruby, Gerard Goggin, and John Keane, all of University of … Continued

During wartime, journalism usually finds itself in a kind of crossfire, writes Gunnar Nygren, of Södertörn University, Michal Glowacki, of University of Warsaw, Jöran Hök, of Sörertörn University, Ilya Kiria, of … Continued

Mainstream news media may not only successfully determine what we think, but also how we think about it, write Amélie Godefroidt, Anna Berbers and Leen d’Haenens, all of of University of Leuven. The study … Continued

Edward Snowden’s revelations and the acts in 2014 by the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police have brought the issues of source protection and information security close to the everyday practice of … Continued

Niek Hietbrink, a teacher and researcher at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences talked to us about his research into local daily newspapers in the Netherlands. The study looked at … Continued

More than 50 dedicated fact-checking outlets have launched across Europe over the past decade, write Lucas Graves, of University of Wisconsin and Federica Cherubini, a research associate at the Reuters Institute for … Continued

A recent article by Giora Goodman, of Kinneret College, and Sandrine Boudana, of Tel Aviv University, recounts the struggle of the Reuters news agency in trying to hit a neutral … Continued

The editors of an upcoming book on transmedia journalism are looking for chapter proposals. The book will comprise double-blind peer reviewed chapters, and it is to be published by IGI … Continued