US News media has heeded the call to limit the mentions mass shooters’ names

The study “News media heeding call to reduce reporting names of mass shooters” by Thomas J. Hrach from The University of Memphis looked at whether the news media has heeded the demand to not report the names of mass shooters. The issue of reporting the names of mass shooters is contentious. On the one hand, … Continued

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Published: 20 Feb 2024

Newspaper representations of populism in Spain and Italy

The study “What is populism anyway? Newspaper representations of populism in Spain and Italy between emptiness and political partisanship” by Carlo Berti, Arantxa Capdevila, and  Carlota M. Moragas-Fernández, all from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, looked at the journalistic construction of populism within the polarized pluralist media system in South Europe.  There are debates about what … Continued

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Published: 13 Feb 2024

Editing of reader’s letters in Late 19th-Century Finnish Press resembled was already modern

The study “ Selecting and Editing of Readers’ Letters in the Late 19th-Century Finnish Press” by Satu Sorvali from University of Turku looked at an under researched topic: reader’s letters to newspapers, specifically reader’s letters  in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the late 19th century. Finland in 1895 was a bilingual autonomous part of … Continued

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Published: 8 Nov 2023

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

Moral loadings in culture wars articles reflect a liberal pattern yet are objective

The study “ Objectivity and Moral Judgment in U.S. News Narratives: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of ‘Culture War’ Coverage” by Mengyao Xu from University of Missouri and Zhujin Guo from Clarkson University used Natural Language Processing tools to evaluate objectivity practice in terms of attitude injection by examining 20,679 culture news articles published in … Continued

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Published: 27 Jan 2023

Types of sources in climate change journalism in Indonesia

The study “News Sourcing Practices in Climate Reporting in Indonesia” by Mira Rochyadi-Reetz from Technische Universität Ilmenau looked at two types of news sources in Indonesian climate change reporting: people and actors, and information in form of international news flows from news wires and international media organizations. There is ample evidence that news media is … Continued

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Published: 30 Sep 2022

Article: How Do Investigative Journalists Initiate Their Stories? 

The study “How Do Investigative Journalists Initiate Their Stories?” by Lena Wuergler and Pauline Cancela from University of Neuchâtel interviewed Swiss investigative journalists to uncover the origin of investigative stories. Investigative journalism is seen contradictingly as both the way for journalism to survive amidst the changes to the journalistic ecosystem and as an endangered species. … Continued

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Published: 16 Sep 2022

Brexit-related othering was similar in broadsheets and tabloids

The study “Converging media-based othering in tabloids and broadsheets” by  Stefanie Walter from University of Munich and Zoltán Fazekas from Copenhagen Business School used word embeddings to analyze how different groups of citizens in Brexit-related news coverage are othered. The research on othering in media has looked at how the ingroup is portrayed or how … Continued

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Published: 7 Sep 2022

News ideology and media storms in France and Israel

The article “What Happens in the Eye of the Storm? News Ideology During Media Storms” by Doron Shultziner from Hadassah Academic College looked at the nexus of news ideology and media storms using two media storms to analyze the topic: the Yellow Vests Movement (2018) in France and the Occupy Movement (2011) in Israel. Media … Continued

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Published: 23 Aug 2022

The rise of National Socialism and opinion-leading media in Germany and Austria

The study “ Opinion-leading media as indicators of a democracy at risk: The press and the rise of National Socialism between 1927 and 1932” by Josef Seethaler and Gabriele Melischek looked at shifts in opinion-leading media in Germany and Austria from 1927 to 1932 – at the time when National Socialism rose to prominence. The … Continued

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Published: 4 Aug 2022