This week there are plenty of journalism conferences and other happenings in Europe. From Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th the University of Copenhagen hosts a conference titled Users Across Media in Copenhagen, … Continued

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has been ranked highest in Europe in communication studies in the recently released QS World University Rankings. LSE was the highest scoring university … Continued

A new book called Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting has been published Routledge Research in Journalism. The monograph, written by Valerie Belair-Gagnon, looks at how the BBC has tried to … Continued

A special issue of the journal Digital Journalism has been published as online-first issue. The issue, titled Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity has been divided into two sections: the other … Continued

R. Lance Holbert of Temple University, USA and Christiane Grill of University of Vienna, Austria. In their new essay, the writers analyze SEM-based confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and reveal how it could be … Continued

Journalistic world in Jerusalem is divided over the Palestinism/Israelism -conflict, states Jérôme Bourdon of Tel Aviv University in his paper published in the journal Journalism. The paper, titled Strange strangers: The Jerusalem correspondents in … Continued

A new PhD thesis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, has been published online. The thesis, titled Towards a sustainable media system : Explorative studies of emerging media consumption trends … Continued

  The Finnish big data research project Digivaalit 2015 (“Cyber Elections 2015”) analyzed nearly 200 000 tweets concerning the Finnish parliamentary elections held 19th April 2015. The first results show that hashtags … Continued

A special issue of the journal Journalism Practise has been published as online-first issue. The issue, titled Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity has been divided into two sections: the other part … Continued

A new PhD thesis from Dublin City University has been published online. In the thesis, Henry Silke writes about the growing symbiotic relationship between business, communication networks and the mass media. … Continued

Although journalists still hold the cultural authority as knowledge creators, professional satire news sites mimic naturalized news formats. This is the two-fold argument presented by Tom van Hout of Leiden University/University of … Continued

Although the role of social media has been well-covered in the forming of Arab Spring, the impact of journalism has been less addressed. In their article, Fatima el Issawi of University of Essex … Continued

The second test implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) research project is about to launch. The project seeks to create an uniform scale of potential risks threatening media pluralism in … Continued

A new book in the Routledge series Shaping Inquiry in Culture has been published, titled Boundaries of Journalism – Professionalism, Practices and Participation.  The book addresses the questions of boundaries and … Continued

  This week sees the International Journalism Festival, held in Perugia, Italy. The festival begins on Wednesday 15th and includes several panel discussions, workshops and presentations during the five days. The … Continued

A book purchase for a private person is often “forever”. Many of us adore books and enjoy simply having them around, to browse at leisure or to be coffee table … Continued

A new issue of the journal European Journal of Communication has been published. As always, we cherry-picked the articles interesting from the point of view of journalism research. Dolors Comas-d’Argemir of Universitat … Continued

An ECREA TWG conference about urban media studies calls for papers and panels. The conference, organized by Faculty of Political Science of University of Zagreb, is held 24th to 25th September … Continued

Intercultural Communications in a Global Age: Political, Media and Cultural Challenges and Tensions -conference in Groningen, Netherlands. This is the first day of the two-day event. Organized by Cultural Difference … Continued

An academic conference titled “Challenging Media Landscapes” calls for papers and for conference panel session proposals. Both are due 22th June 2015. The conference opens the Salford International Media Festival, … Continued

A one-day conference is looking for submissions from postgraduate students, PhD students and early career researchers. The event is be hosted by Media and Communication Department of University of Leicester, … Continued

A new book in the Routledge series Internationalizing Media Studies has been published. The volume, titled Mapping BRICS Media, is a comparative study of the media landscape in Brazil, Russia, India, … Continued

In theory electronic books, or e-books, are only data files containing textual information. The distinction between digital texts and e-books is essentially arbitrary. Technically, the concept of an e-book is … Continued

Italian fascist propaganda created a negative image of France and socialism during the “Paris, 1937” exhibition, writes Francescomaria Evangelisti of University of Seville. Using the Italian press to manipulate information, France was … Continued

A new issue of the journal Journalism has been published. Here are our picks, focusing as always on the European side of journalism research. Philip Schlesinger and Gillian Doyle, both … Continued

Ruling politicians are are usually able to set the tone of crisis journalism, write Eva-Karin Olsson, of Stockholm University, Lars W. Nord, of Mid Sweden University, and Jesper Falkheimer, of … Continued

News agencies have great potential even amidst the tumult of media market changes, but they need to adapt quickly to stay relevant, writes the Reuters Institute for the Study of … Continued

Having to pay for access to academic articles is problematic, even if one recognizes the legitimacy of the business model. Paying for a myriad of journals is expensive to whichever … Continued

Dangers faced by compatriots supersedes the suffering of foreign locals, writes Emma Heywood, of Coventry University. The authors studied the coverage of the intra-Palestinian fighting in 2007 on three television … Continued

Out of different autocratic regimes, communist systems allow for the least amount of media freedom, writes Sebastian Stier, of Heidelberg University. Stier used the media freedom rankings of the non-governmental … Continued