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

A cross-country survey of European journalists reveal most of them find current self-regulating measures only moderately effective, writes Susanne Fengler, of TU Dortmund University. The results come from a twelve-country … Continued

The ways how Israeli press has written about the country’s national soccer team has changed over the years. These changes are largely the result of changes in Israeli national identity … Continued

A conference by European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) on political communication is awaiting proposals. The overarching theme of the conference is “Changing political communication, changing Europe?”. The event … Continued

A conference on British and Irish journalism between 1800 and 1900 is accepting paper proposals. The event, titled “Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from … Continued

Spanish mainstream press will write extensively of their political opponents’ scandals, but lay low when their allies come under fire, write Frank Baumgartner, of University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continued

The peruse of large databases lends itself well to collaboration between journalists, and even the public, writes Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) fellow Alexandre Léchenet. He is … Continued

International Media Management Academic Association’s (IMMAA) annual conference is now open for paper proposals. The submission system is open between February the 10th and the deadline is set for May … Continued

The king of England, Charles Stuart (Charles II, 1630-1685), was depicted in different ways during his exile (or Interregnum) by early British press, writes Benjamin Woodford, of University of Waterloo. … Continued

Three of the most prominent German newspaper were all taken in by a mythical narrative surrounding the political shooting star, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Stine Eckert, of Wayne State University, took … Continued

Despite the common misconception, the line between journalists and authors was not as clear-cut durin belle époque France, writes Marieke Dubbelboer, of University of Bristol. The author uses the career … Continued

This year’s NordMedia conference, to be held in Copenhagen in late summer, is looking for submissions. The event, titled “Media Presence – Mobile Modernities” has a total of eleven divisions … Continued

New information on German data journalism has been put to the books. Stefan Weinacht, of Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, and Ralf Spiller, of Macromedia University of Applied Sciences conducted … Continued

Majority of journalists are committed to developing paid digital content, while most of the public is unwilling to pay for it, write Txema Ramirez de la Piscina, Beatriz Zabalondo, Alazne … Continued

Twitter messages, or tweets, make extensive use of mainstream media’s news pieces, while the opposite hardly happens, write Tony McEnery, Mark McGlashan and Robbie Love, all of Lancaster University. They … Continued

The introduction of networked media helped the rise of racist prejudice in Finnish public paradigm, Kaarina Horsti, of University of Jyväskylä writes. She gives the splintering of Finnish media landscape … Continued