Reporting on violence against women in Germany

The study “Isolated Incidents. Media Reporting on Violence Against Women in the German Press” by Christine E. Meltzer from University of Music, Drama and Media, Hanover, looked at how media reports violence against women in Germany. According to the World Health Organization, about one in three women have suffered from sexual or physical violence since … Continued

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Published: 6 Feb 2023

Editorial trust-building in German news outlets

The study “The quality oriented, the audience engagers, the transparent: Types of editorial trust-building in German news outlets” by Bernadette Uth from University of Muenster explored the issue of media trust and what sort of strategies news outlets use to regain and build trust. Especially in times of crisis, trustworthy information sources – journalism – … Continued

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Published: 28 Dec 2022

The effect of journalists’ reactions to media-critical user comments

The article “Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions” by Fabian Prochazka from University of Erfurt and Magdalena Obermaier from LMU Munich investigated the effect of journalistic engagement with critical user comments through an online experiment. Media criticism in user comments usually centers on two core … Continued

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Published: 15 Feb 2022

Local news organizations in Germany and data journalism

The article “Local Data Journalism in Germany: Data-driven Reporting Amidst Local Communities and Authorities” by Florian Stalph from LMU Munich and Oliver Hahn and David Liewehr from University of Passau explored data journalism within local and regional news organizations in Germany. Data journalism is often associated with large organizations such as ProPublica or with major, … Continued

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Published: 1 Feb 2022

Potential of algorithmic news recommenders

The study “When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s): New Dynamics of Decision-Making and Autonomy in Newsgathering” by Hannes Cools, Baldwin van Gorp and Michaël Opgenhaffen from KU Leuven, Belgium studied the new dynamics of algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) and how they influence the newsworkers’ role.  Algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) have been developed over the last ten … Continued

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Published: 28 Dec 2021

Byline biases and gendered emotions

Under what conditions does a gender byline bias against female authors still exist? A new article “Are byline biases an issue of the past” by Leyla Dogruel from Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Sven Joeckel from University of Erfurt, and Claudia Wilhelm from University of Vienna was a combination of two consequtive studies investigating the effect of perceived author … Continued

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Published: 27 May 2021

Emotionalizing news topics and the effect of constructive television journalism

The study “The Impact of Constructive Television Journalism on the Audience: Results from an Online Study” by Roman Rusch and Erk Simon of West German Broadcasting Kim Otto of University of Würzburg, and Detlef Flintz of West German Broadcasting, investigated the impact of constructive television journalism on the minds and emotions of its viewers. In … Continued

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Published: 29 Apr 2021
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News sharing on apps is more about social ties than spreading the news

New research by Antonis Kalegoropoulos of the University of Liverpool compared news sharing habits of mobile messaging application users in four countries: US, UK, Germany, and Brazil. Employing comparative and mixed methods, the study had three questions to answer: to understand the profile of the users who shared news, the types of news they shared, … Continued

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Published: 26 Nov 2020
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Diversity examined in 18 British, Swedish, and German newsrooms

A new study in Journalism Practice by Julia Lück, Tanjev Schultz, Sabine Kieslich, of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and Felix Simon and Alexandra Borchardt of the University of Oxford, explores the issue of internal diversity in newsrooms as a reflection of the society. The authors conducted semi-standardized interviews of editors-in-chief and managing editors … Continued

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Published: 30 Sep 2020

ARTICLE: Migration news underrepresent women

Migrant women are much less visible than migrant men in German news on migration. Fabienne Lind, of University of Vienna, and Christine E. Meltzer, of University of Mainz, discovered the discrepancy through an automated content analysis of nearly 350 000 German news articles. The authors searched for migration related, German news articles from the LexisNexis … Continued

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Published: 3 Feb 2020