A symposium on civil unrest representations is looking for submissions. Titled “Discourses of Disorder: Representations of Riots, Strikes and Protests”, the symposium is to take place in Newcastle, UK, on … Continued

The uptake of new research topics, and also methodologies, in Finnish media research has sped up in recent years, says Matti Sintonen, of the research funding foundation Helsingin Sanomain Säätiö … Continued

Various methods of corpus analysis can be insightful in studying the ways newsworthiness of events is constructed, write Amanda Potts, of Lancaster University, Monika Bednarek, of University of Sydney, and … Continued

A lot of what we do here is self-explanatory, but some things are not. For example, comments are permanently closed not due to inflammatory comments, but to direct conversation to … Continued

Institutions of media self-regulation are typically lacking, a new report from the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) reveals. The 16-country comparison details regulatory systems from all parts of the world, bar … Continued

Americans, who volunteered to fight for the French in the First World War were used by French press for propaganda purposes, writes Ross Collins, of North Dakota State University. The … Continued

Basically, we write and publish news regarding European journalism research. Our service is free, and strives to steer clear of any unabashed advocacy. Within the limits of our scope and … Continued

A transnational discourse of newspapers’ crisis has emerged in countries with different situations, write Michael Brüggemann, of University of Hamburg, Edda Humprecht and Frank Esser, both of University of Zürich, … Continued

Sailors working on commercial seafaring vessels are displayed in negative light by Spanish press, write Javier Sánchez-Beaskoetxea and Cesar Coca García, both of University of the Basque Country. They studied … Continued

Research is not what it used to be, in many respects. Long gone are the days of yore, when a man of letters was hard pressed to find a kindred … Continued

News stories in South Korean news stories are turning into plastic surgery advertorials, writes Miri Moon, of Brunel University London. Moon analysed the frequency and tone of plastic surgery related … Continued

Journalists suffer fluctuations in their mental health after being laid off, write Petteri Raito and Eero Lahelma, both of University of Helsinki. The authors compared the experiences of Finnish journalists … Continued

News stories are getting more and more shares on Facebook, writes Liam Corcoran, of the analytics company Newswhip. The company tracks the distribution patterns of different content in social media … Continued

Danish journalists anticipate terrorism to be Islamist in nature, writes Asta Smedegaard Nielsen, of University of Copenhagen. Nielsen studied the media reactions, and interviewed journalists in relation to the 2011 … Continued

People usually don’t recognize the faces of murder victims, even if the case was widely publicised, write Michael Brookes, David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley, Mohammed Rahman, Sophie Rowe, all of Birmingham … Continued

The news stories surrounding a controversial badger cull made use of only a small circle of select scientists, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) fellow and BBC … Continued

Differences in news making practices of Israeli media have been sketched out by Zvi Reich, of Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Reich conducted interviews with 108 journalists from Israeli … Continued

Journalism is the 6. most desirable occupation in the UK, a new YouGov poll finds. While majority of Brits (53 %) would not like to do journalism for a living, … Continued

When reporting the nations credit rate downgrading Irish print media adopted a discourse compliant to the status quo, writes Anthony Cawley, of Liverpool Hope University. Cawley studied news reports about … Continued

The change in newsmaking technology reflects in the role of the reporter, writes Johan Jarlbrink, of Umeå University. He studied historical representations of newswork in Swedish newspapers, starting from late … Continued

A new research project on the media critique presented by right-wing populists is in the making. Kristoffer Holt, of Linnaeus University, presented the results of a pilot study in the … Continued

Members of the European Parliament have news value in national papers mostly because of local reasons, write Katjana Gattermann, of Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies, and Sofia Vasilopoulou, of … Continued

The Swedish audience has only modest interest in participatory journalism, write Michael Karlsson, Christer Clerwall, Karin Fast, all of Karlstadt University, and Annika Bergström, of University of Gothenburg (names not … Continued

Czech politicians are highly dissatisfied with the country’s national journalism, writes Roman Hájek, of Charles University in Prague. Hájek lead a survey of Czech parliament members in order to gauge … Continued

The 4th International Crisis Communication Conference in Helsingborg, Sweden, is now looking for submissions. The event focuses on four “intersections” distinguishable in crisis communication. One of these sub-themes is the … Continued

A conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ankara University’s Faculty of Communication is accepting submissions. The conference, titled “‘Constructing’ Middle East: Media, Ideology and Culture” will be held in Ankara, … Continued

Critical reflection is best taught through practice, writes Morten Kronstad, of University of Bergen. Kronstad based his findings on the interviews and observations of Norwegian, tertiary level journalism students. At … Continued

News stories constructed to a narrative format are easier for young people to comprehend, write Katharina Emde, Christoph Klimmt and Daniela Schlütz, all of Hanover University of Music, Drama and … Continued

The way United Nations Security Council (UNSC) describes political events relating to the spreading of nuclear weapons technology is quite different from how up-market newspapers put things. Malcolm MacDonald, Alexandra … Continued

On a political parallellism scale from 0 to 20, media companies in five large European countries land between 9 and 14, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) … Continued