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ARTICLE: “News ecosystem” is not a neutral term

The commonly used term “news ecosystem” is not devoid of normative assumptions, but instead invokes ideological interpretation, Anthony Nadler, of Ursinus College, writes. Nadler’s essay chronicles how the term was imported from ecology to media studies, and critically analyses its use. The metaphor is not without merits, as it puts emphasis on the interconnections of … Continued

Tags: media systems
Published: 5 Feb 2018

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REPORT: Gender inequalities in the media at the European level

Gender pay gap and discrimation remain as issues in the European media sector, but there are also new problems, such inequality within digital media platforms. New study looks at the European policy agenda pertaining to gender equality in the media sector and reviews existing research on the topic. It includes case studies from four EU … Continued

Tags: journalistic norms, media systems
Published: 30 Jan 2018

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ARTICLE: Alternative narratives of journalism in crisis from Singapore and Hong Kong

Much research on the crisis of journalism has been done in the Anglo-American context. Less is known about alternative media systems. Shangyuan Wu of Nanyang Technological University, examined Singapore and Hong Kong. These ‘global cities’ are exposed to Western liberal ideals but are still under a sort of authoritarian control. The research used a framework … Continued

Tags: censorship, freedom of speech, media policy, media systems
Published: 23 Jan 2018

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ARTICLE: Journalism produces its own kind of gendered institution

Many previous studies on journalism have overlooked journalism as a gendered institution, argue Iiris Ruoho and Sinikka Torkkola of the University of Tampere, in a new study. The gendered institution of journalism can be seen either as an externally or internally constructed object. Journalism and gender should not be kept apart, but their relation can … Continued

Tags: journalistic identity, media systems
Published: 17 Jan 2018

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ARTICLE: Both US and Chinese journalists embrace attribution

Plagiarism in journalism is treated in varying ways. Do attitudes towards it travel across national and cultural boundaries? Norman P. Lewis of the University of Florida, Bu Zhong of Pennsylvania State University, Fan Yang of State University New York and Yong Zhou of Renmin University of China, compared 1,096 professional journalists who answered a survey … Continued

Tags: China, journalistic norms, media systems, United States
Published: 20 Dec 2017

REPORT: Media and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa

Democracy and press freedom have been natural companions, but the relationship between the two has been closely entwined in sub-Saharan Africa, write Herman Wasserman, and Nicholas Benequista, both of Centre for Film and Media Studies (CIMA), University of Cape Town. The report sheds light on how the struggle for vibrant, independent, and plural media systems in … Continued

Tags: freedom of speech, media policy, media systems
Published: 12 Dec 2017

ARTICLE: New Zealand’s media is converging beyond ownership concentration

Ownership concentration is not the only relevant measure of media convergence, although it is the only form that has been researched in the New Zealand context, Merja Myllylahti, of Auckland University of Technology, writes. Myllylahti analysed a host of studies, corporate documents and press reports in order to map out how different forms of convergence … Continued

Tags: journalism funding, media systems, New Zealand
Published: 24 Nov 2017

ARTICLE: Central and Eastern Europe has three types of media systems

Can the media system typology famously proposed by Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini (2004) be applied to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries? This question was put to the test by a group of researchers based in Switzerland and Germany. They applied the framework to 11 CEE countries and conducted a series of statistical tests … Continued

Tags: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, media systems, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Published: 17 Nov 2017

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ARTICLE: The bigger and more powerful a country is, the less foreign news it produces

Many factors influence the volume of foreign news reported in different countries. The new study by Miki Tanikawa of Akita International University, Japan, takes a macro-level look at the issue. Tanikawa studied countries’ size and strengths as determinants of foreign news volume. The researcher used secondary data from two recent international studies on television news … Continued

Tags: foreign correspondence, media systems
Published: 15 Nov 2017