Annually published journal The journal World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies is calling for papers. Deadline for submitting articles for the journal has been extended till … Continued

Relativist positions in truth claims can mask relations of power and inequality. A critical realist position allows the identification of such structures, claims Eugene Flanagan in a recent article. The … Continued

New article by Nando Malmelin and Sari Virta explores the ways in which the creativity of media professionals is supported and managed under the changing conditions of media work and journalistic practices. Media professionals … Continued

Due to the changes caused by online communication and social media, the media audience is often described as an active one. Janne Matikainen and Mikko Villi study the Finnish media audience’s … Continued

Veterans’ newspapers offered a consistent narrative to diverse veteran organizations that has also endured to later journalism. A new study by Sally Carlton of the University of Western Australia studies … Continued

Carina Jacobi, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw and Nel Ruigrok compare political news in popular and elite print newspapers and their respective online editions during the 2013 National Election Campaign in Austria. They claim … Continued

Editors Barry Turner, Geoff Adams and Sanem Şahin are calling for papers for a book about war reporting. The book will be a compilation of historical and contemporary stories of the war correspondent … Continued

What good does it do to spend your time communicating about your work, instead of actually working on your research project? Research-related communication has become more and more important during … Continued

The use of non-professional or amateur images has become an important component of news coverage of distant crisis events. It plays a decisive role in shaping how audiences collectively recognize and … Continued

The Series Editors of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) invite the submission of book proposals for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education SeriesThe Book … Continued

The Third Nordic Data Journalism Conference (NODA16) is calling for papers For creating the next wave of more collaborative and nuanced data journalism research, papers are called from (but not … Continued

Reflections on Media Education Futures gathers together contributions from the Nordicom’s conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014. The event gathered international researchers in the field, as well as … Continued

How are agency and different sides of a conflict portrayed, when comparing commercial news and nations’ political soft power media? The question is posed by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman in a … Continued

Chapters are called for the book Dynamics of mediatization: Understanding cultural and social change. Mediatization studies examine a wide range of dynamics of media-related transformations. These dynamics vary in form … Continued

In her new article Stephanie Newell explores the paradoxes in British approaches to the control of print media in colonial West Africa between the 1920s and 1940s. Independent newspaper production … Continued

The publishers and editors of the early Finnish women’s magazines watched and learned from their foreign colleagues and the first magazine in Finland was published in 1782. They copied and adapted … Continued

Nordicom-Sweden’s Media Barometer 2014 is now published. The Media Barometer provides data on the access to and use of different media types in the Swedish population. The Barometer measures actual … Continued

How have the digital shift and the need for speed changed the editing process and goals of editing? How can the editor enhance audience participation? asks Kati Toivanen. The newly published paper … Continued

In her newly published article Julian Matthews explores the processes of politicisation and mediation as informing the elite UK newspaper reporting of climate change. Article shows that the politicisation process shapes how … Continued

In 2012 a Swedish newspaper published multiple articles criticising Swedish national level gymnastics for being abusive. In their newly published article Jonas Stier and Helena Blomberg take a look on this case … Continued

The September 2015 issue of Britsh Journalism Review is out. The magazine contains engaging views on British journalism, from views on recent events to book reviews to diverse articles. The … Continued

The Free Daily Press in Europe 1995-2015 conference aims to promote a debate on the free daily newspaper that has been circulating in cities for the past 20 years. Here … Continued

Annual MeCCSA Conference is calling for abstracts, panel proposals and posters. The theme of this years MeCCSA is ‘Communities’. Possible themes are: Communities in the digital age Communities and the commons … Continued

The fifth biennial conference The Future of Journalism will start off on Thursday. The two-day event is hosted by the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) at … Continued

What is Media 2016: What is Media? Experience-Exploration-Emergence -conference is calling for papers. The event will feature keynote speakers, roundtables, paper presentations, and special events, in an attempt to answer questions about the … Continued

The 1st International Conference in Scandalogy is calling for papers on the current state of research on the social phenomenon of scandals. The aim of this conference is to foster … Continued

The International Conference on Media and Memory is calling for papers on the topic Covering the communist past: media transformation and memory in Albania. The conference is held in Tirana … Continued

It can be argued that competition in Finland’s autonomous Åland has lead to decreasing differentation among local media. A research by Carl-Gustav Lindén of the University of Helsinki studies newspaper … Continued

There has been a deep controversy in Europe with respect to media policies, new technologies and public service media. A study by David Fernández-Quijada, Montse Bonet, Roberto Suárez Candel and … Continued

Special issue of Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice is looking for papers about sports journalism. “Despite a notable increase in the academic scrutiny of sports journalism in recent years it … Continued