Typology of Journalistic Collaboration

The study “New Guests Crashing the Party: A Typology of Journalistic Collaboration” by Patrick Walters from Washington and Lee University examined the variables when journalists collaborated with groups outside the traditional journalistic field – such as  nonprofits, universities, think tanks, artistic groups, and citizen journalists.  According to the author, collaboration has become a bit of … Continued


Emerging media following the Arab uprisings

The article “Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere” by Yazan Badran from Vrije Universiteit Brussel sought to understand the genesis, development and relevance of the new emerging media organizations in the Arab mediasphere following the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011. The study builds on the author’s previous work on the … Continued