A new issue of the journal Journalism and Discourse Studies is out. It’s published biannually by the University of Newcastle. As the journal’s title suggests, its current issue features several … Continued

High ranking German journalists frequently mingle with the political and economic elite. Friendly connections offer access to top notch sources, but reflect as agreeably framed stories, writes Uwe Krüger, of … Continued

The Journal of International Press/Politics will start arranging conferences. The first annual conference will be hosted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) at the University of … Continued

A symposium on gender in media is now accepting paper proposals. The event itself will be held in Tarragona, Spain, on the 16th and 17th of October. It is organized … Continued

Politically right-leaning United Kingdom newspapers feature more opinions skeptical to climate change than left-leaning papers, write James Painter, of University of Oxford, and Neil T. Gavin, of University of Liverpool. … Continued

The deadline for a conference on Capitalism, Culture and Media has been extended. The due date for submissions has been postponed by one week, from February the 2nd to the … Continued

English language elite press paints a consistently negative picture of the European Union’s future, write Mai’a Davis Cross, of Northwestern University, and Xinru Ma, of University of Southern California. They … Continued

Late Ottoman newspapers represented Bosniak Jews through a discourse emphasizing unity, writes Dženita Karić, of Oriental Institute in Sarajevo. The author studied issues published between 1866 and 1875 in two … Continued

The director of the Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom) is about to change. The current director, Ulla Carlsson, of University of Gothenburg, will step down in … Continued

Journalism in Czech Republic is unable to perform its societal duties, writes Jiří Zatloukal, a fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). Zatloukal is also a journalist … Continued

Journalists in South-East Europe come frequently under duress, writes Eugenia Siapera, of Dublin City University. The result is based on a series of journalists’ interviews in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, … Continued

10th International Interpretive Policy Analysis conference is still looking for submissions. The event is subtitled “Policies and their publics: discourses, actors and power”. It features a host of various sessions, … Continued

Nordic Data Journalism Conference, NODA, will fire off on Friday, and even those unable to attend should have something to look forward to. Here’s a sneak peek. The second installment … Continued

A new research project will look at the images, both still and moving, through which the Ukrainian conflict is portrayed in both social and mainstream media. Starting February, the project … Continued

Comment section on news websites do not fulfill their normative goals, write Nina Springer, Christian Pfaffinger, both of Ludwig Maximiliam University of Munich, and Ines Engelmann, of University of Jena … Continued

The story of Lena Zavaroni (1963-1999), a child singer sensation grown into anorexic adulthood, was covered in the British press with various tints, writes Su Holmes, of East Anglia University. … Continued

Repeated exposure to negatively framed news has a noticeable effect on the audience’s political views, write Sophie Lecheler, Andreas Schuck, both of Univeristy of Amsterdam, Mario Keer, of the Netherlands … Continued

In recent years women have outnumbered men in UK journalism education despite the fact that men’s application to enter j-schools are consistently more successful. Women also hold more degrees in … Continued

European University Institute has finished its task of creating a standardized tool to gauge media plurality in the European Union. The mission was launched by the European Commision and undertaken … Continued

A new book in the Routledge series Studies in European communication research & education has been published. Titled Radio Audiences and Participation in the Age of Network Society the volume … Continued

Conference titled Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 is now looking for content proposals. The event will be hosted and organized by Bath Spa University, in Bath, United Kingdom. The event’s … Continued

Finnish journalists admit to their personal interests’ influence on topic selection, write Esa Reunanen and Kari Koljonen, both of University of Tampere. Even more than by the journalists’ personal inclinations … Continued

Sports journalism has traditionally been a field dominated by men, even though gender equality has made strides elsewhere. In the UK, that it is still, write Suzanne Franks, of City … Continued

Israeli protesters demanding social justice in 2011 failed to pursue a media reform among their many other goals. Instead, they focused their efforts through and relied upon the traditional media. … Continued

Journalists can be divided into five distinguishable groups according to whom they feel most accountable to, writes Halliki Harro-Loit, of University of Tartu. The results come from a large scale, … Continued

Most science journalists depict nano scale technology (NST) as uncertain in nature. A smaller fraction uses the on-the-other-hand or the downright optimistic approach. The results come from Lars Guenther, Klara … Continued

A new issue of the Global Media Journal – German Edition has been published. The current issue is a special on international media assistance, a form of developement aid aimed … Continued

Overall trust in the world is in decline, shows a recent study by public relations company Edelman. According to the annual report, trust in media is in decline in most … Continued

A workshop on changing forms of journalisms in contemporary mediascape is now accepting submissions. The workshop is titled “Changes in journalism: rethinking existing forms”, and it’s a precursor to the … Continued

A new book on the politicization of bodily vulnerability has been published. Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability is a part of the Routledge series Studies in New … Continued