As a third of the Swedish journalists have received threats and majority have received insulting comments, intimidation and harassment have become a common element of journalists daily work, write Monica Löfgren … Continued

The Nordic Data Journalism conference 2016, or NODA2016, will begin tommorrow (Thursday the 21st) with an academic preconference. The main event, starting on Friday, will focus on the practical side … Continued

Computer-written news tends to be rated higher than human-written news in terms of credibility but news consumers get more pleasure out of reading human-written news, write Andreas Graefe of Columbia University, LMU Munich, … Continued

March 2016 issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator is out now. The magazine features an intriguing collection of journalism and communication related articles and book reviews. The articles explore themes … Continued

RISJ and Columbia University Press are launching a new book series called Reuters Institute Global Journalism Series. Publishing will start in 2017. The focus of the book series is on journalism … Continued

The conference Digital Opportunities and Challenges: Researching Journalism and Media in a Digital Age is now accepting paper proposals. The event will take place on the 26th and 27th of … Continued

When telling of the Syrian civil war, foreign newspapers largely neglected to diagnose its causes, write Amélie Godefroidt, Anna Berbers, and Leen d’Haenens, all of University of Leuven. The authors … Continued

Messages sent from news organisations’ official Twitter accounts more often mention journalistic accounts than others, write Martin Chorley and Glyn Mottershead, both of Cardiff University. The authors algorithmically analysed over … Continued

Twitter users mainly distrust the narratives offered by Russian mainstream media, write Irina Khaldarova and Mervi Pantti, of University of Helsinki. The authors analysed 6043 Twitter messages which referred back … Continued

The 5th annual International Symposium on Media Innovations held in 13-14 October 2016 at the University of Oslo, Norway is calling for papers. The focus of the Media Innovations symposium … Continued

Local journalism is giving up on the “watchdog” role and turning increasingly to a “campaining” role, writes Julie Firmstone, of University of Leeds. Firmstone interviewed 12 local journalists and two … Continued

Our recent article about altmetrics introduced the concept and highlighted some of its benefits. We’ll now dive behind the metrics and explore what this young concept needs in order to … Continued

The use of native advertising in online news platforms is not extensive yet. Patterns in the ways they are used can be seen, even though there are big differences between … Continued

This article focuses on ‘participatory journalism’ from the perspective of participants. How do they view and evaluate their participation in journalism? The study is based on 32 in-depth interviews with participants from … Continued

To understand journalism, we need to understand how people understand journalism, writes Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. To make sense of journalism examining so-called “folk theories of journalism” is crucial. By “folk theories of journalism” … Continued

In changing media environment news organizations need to enrich the services they offer to their readers. Tom Evens and Kristin Van Damme investigate whether and to what extent people would be willing to … Continued

Has the adoption of live online coverage, such as Twitter, facilitated a more “multiperspectival” journalism through the inclusion of “non-official” sources? ask Daniel Bennett. The article looks at the opportunities … Continued

Czech newspapers published less local news content in 2009 than what they did in 1989, writes Lenka Waschková-Císařová, of Masaryk University. The author analysed the contents of two Czech local … Continued

Spanish television news frame immigrants and cultural minorities as harmful “others” unless they are wealthy, write Antonio Pineda, of University of Sevilla, Leonarda García-Jiménez, of University of Murcia, and Miquel … Continued

British newspapers used simplistic framing when reporting the 2011 terrorist attack against UN employees, writes Mercy Ette, of University of Huddersfield. Ette studied news stories about Nigeria published during the … Continued

The Finnish Conference for Media and Communication Research began on Friday 8 April. It takes place in Helsinki, Finland and lasts until Saturday afternoon. The conference is themed around trust … Continued

Altmetrics is a way to measure online attention gained by research. The word derives from alternative (biblio)metrics. Outlined originally in the Altmetrics Manifesto [1], altmetrics have with the developments of … Continued

Reuters Institutes for the Study of Journalism has published a report called What is happening to television news?. The report is the fourth piece of Digital News Reports series. Traditional television viewing is … Continued

New issue of NORDICOMs Media Trends in the Nordic countries newsletter is out now. It provides a collection of news about recent media developments based on reports from a number of Nordic media … Continued

Swedish journalists express much more cosmopolitan ideals than what their work practices allow, write Johan Lindell and Michael Karlsson, both of Karlstad University. The authors surveyed 571 Swedish journalists over … Continued

Readers’ contributions posted below online news stories can serve to extend journalism, not just comment on it, writes James Morrison, of Robert Gordon University. The author analysed the reader comments … Continued

Independent research institutions, or so called think tanks, are increasing their influence on Danish, Swedish and Norwegian news, recent research points out. A special issue of the journal Politik focuses … Continued

Journalists hardly ever adopt the frames offered by their sources into their stories, write Christian Baden and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, both of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The authors compared how … Continued

The 8th annual International Media Readings in Moscow conference is looking for paper abstract submissions. The event will take place on the 7th and 8th of November 2016. The conference … Continued

The headlines of science stories are often excessively emotive and exeggeratory, writes Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, of Opole University. The author studied the headlines of 400 most-read stories published on the website … Continued