Danish tabloid newspaper BT used overt rhetoric to “meta frame” itself as being serious about sports – and to try and reclaim sports journalism’s legitimacy, writes Karsten Pedersen of Roskilde … Continued

The so-called ‘Umbrella movement’ protests in Hong Kong were covered by UK newspapers in an unsurprising manner, writes Colin Sparks, of Hong Kong Baptist University. Sparks reviewed 129 articles published … Continued

When a journalist thinks he or she has gained access to an exclusive source, the journalist is more compelled to follow the source’s lead in framing that news. The conclusion … Continued

Despite the increasing use of online media, traditional news sources remain important at least in some European countries. The fact is revealed in a supplementary report to the Reuters Institute … Continued

A new issue of the Nordicom Review is released. Nordicom Review is a refereed journal that provides forum for media and communication researchers in the Nordic countries. Here’s few examples of … Continued

Emma Davies, of Liverpool John Moores University, Erin O’Leary, of Liverpool John Moores University and John Read, of Swinburne University of Technology study how child abuse and neglect were reported in a sample of newspaper … Continued

Editors Alison Vogelaar and Brack Hale, of Franklin University Switzerland are calling for book chapter proposals for an edited volume exploring the discursive contours of ‘environmental collapse’ that both identify … Continued

UK news media rarely diverged from the narratives offered by established political parties during the 2015 general election, write Martine Moore and Gordon Ramsay, both of King’s College London. They … Continued

UNESCO Research Conference on Safety of Journalists is calling for papers and posters from various research fields that examine freedom of expression and press freedom, and that cover the issues mentioned … Continued

Reuters Institute fellow Chan Jung Park explores in his new paper how regulatory bodies in United Kingdom and South Korea decide on fairness and impartiality issues. He explores the extent to which a … Continued

Studying the ways search engines rank and present news content is a complex task, writes Jacob Ørmen, of University of Copenhagen. Things such as web browsing history may influence which … Continued

The relationships between journalists and scientists are various, but explainable through Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, writes Jannie Møller Hartley, of Roskilde University. The author interviewed both journalists and scientists, and … Continued

Female politicians appear disproportionately seldom in UK daily newspapers, and they are occasionally subject to sexist representations, write Deirdre O’Neilla, of University of Huddersfield, Heather Savigny, of Bournemouth University, and … Continued

A special issue of the journal Medijske studije has been published. It focuses on the media development in the post-communist Central and Eastern European countries over the past 25 years. … Continued

The plurality of viewpoints in news is important to its function, and the state of said plurality should be carefully investigated, argue Christian Baden, of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and … Continued

The readerships of both regional and national newspapers have declined in Denmark over the recent years. Similarly the Danes have cut back on their time spent viewing television. At the … Continued

New article by Carina Jacobi, Wouter van Atteveldt and Kasper Welbers introduces a relatively recent tool for quantitative analysis, Latent Dirichlet Analysis. LDA is an unsupervised topic modelling technique that automatically creates … Continued

Huge amounts of digital content are produced every day. The constant information flow have set new challenges not only for journalism but also journalism scholars. How to describe and analyze the … Continued

The second edition to the third e-book in the European Audiovisual Observatory’s IRIS Themes series is published. The new edition contains summaries of over 240 judgments or Court decisions that are based … Continued

Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR, has introduced a new workflow in an attempt to produce more news stories, faster and on different platforms. This article explores how the practice of journalism at DR … Continued

In their newly published study Corinna Lauerer, Thomas Hanitzsch and Folker Hanusch explore how journalists experience the lifestyle industries try to shape their daily work, and how these journalists deal with these influences. 89 … Continued

Swedish teenagers on the cusp of adulthood consider news found on social media as being less ‘real’ than news received via traditional media, writes Malin Sveningsson from the University of … Continued

A special issue of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism on the London bombings of 2005 is looking for submissions. The issue seeks to revisit the so called ‘7/7’ … Continued

Research into news sharing on social media is, among other things, too Twitter-centric, write Anna Sophie Kümpel, Veronika Karnowski and Till Keyling, all of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. They … Continued

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is launching an extensive research project on the media displays of the current migration crisis. The study will have a time … Continued

Internet and social media have changed how journalists’ traditional roles are perceived. Stephanie Grubenmann Miriam Meckel explore the interplay between journalists’ role perceptions, the core values of journalism, and ongoing change in the … Continued

The newly published report presents four possible scenarios for the future of Dutch journalism in 2025. The report have been commissioned by the Dutch Journalism Fund. The aim of the research … Continued

Danish quality newspapers grant more visibility and weight to economic developments than what relevant indicators would call for, write Arjen van Dalen, Erik Albæk, both of University of Southern Denmark, … Continued

The news media is a major source to the general public in matters of science and health. Still journalists and experts tend to differ in what they consider as newsworthy … Continued

The common public sphere, relevant to the European Union, is best described by a discursive public sphere theory, argues Stefanie Walter of University of Mannheim, Germany. Walter compared the pre-collected … Continued