ARTICLE: Think tanks increase their influence on media

Independent research institutions, or so called think tanks, are increasing their influence on Danish, Swedish and Norwegian news, recent research points out. A special issue of the journal Politik focuses on think tanks in the Nordic countries. Mark Blach-Ørsten, of Roskilde University, and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, of University of Copenhagen, investigated how the two largest … Continued

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Published: 5 Apr 2016

ARTICLE: Three ways journalists adapt sources’ views

Journalists hardly ever adopt the frames offered by their sources into their stories, write Christian Baden and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, both of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The authors compared how different Israeli, Palestinian, German, UK, and US newspapers used the same source statements, for example speeches. The authors identified three different models of source frame … Continued

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Published: 5 Apr 2016

ARTICLE: Swedish press has become more neoliberal

The Swedish press used a more market-oriented, neoliberal discourse in covering an economic crisis in 2011 than in 1977, writes Diana Jacobsson, of Gothenburg University. The author compared the coverage of the automotive crisis of 2011 and the textile industry crisis of 1977 in two Swedish newspapers, Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. In covering the 1977 … Continued

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Published: 4 Apr 2016

ARTICLE: Struggling with online sources

A new review article by Sophie Lecheler and Sanne Kruikemeier evaluate how online sources have changed the relationship between journalists and their sources regarding selection of sources as well as verification strategies. Lecheler and Kruikemeier claim that journalists have accepted online news sourcing techniques into their daily news production process, but they still gravitate toward elite sources, and do not … Continued

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Published: 24 Aug 2015

ARTICLE: Social media as news sources

The Czech news media do not fully utilize the democratic potential of social networking sites as news sources, claims a recent study by Radim Hladík of Charles Univesity in Prague and Václav Štětka of the University of Oxford. The paper titled The powers that tweet: Social media as news sources in the Czech Republic was published … Continued

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Published: 8 Aug 2015

PAPER: Has Internet changed journalistic sources?

  Journalists appreciate easy and quick information, writes Maisa Hopeakunnas in her newly published paper in the Finnish journal Informaatiotutkimus. In the article, Hopeakunnas notes that even though the Internet has changed the search for the information and sources, the journalists still use mainly other source types – documents and situational sources still rule over the ease of … Continued

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Published: 28 Jul 2015

ARTICLE: Local news, citizen sources, peace journalism and more

A new issue of International Journal of Communication has been published. We cherry-picked the articles written about European journalism or by European journalism scholars, paraphrased below. Manuel Goyanes of Carlos III University writes about the willingness the pay for local news in the digital environment. He has analysed the relationships between paying intent and predictor variables such as demographics, … Continued

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Published: 13 Jun 2015

PAPER: Can journalists protect their sources anymore?

Is source protection dead, asks a new paper by Carl Fridh Kleberg who spent a month at LSE as the Polis Journalistfonden Fellow. Kleberg studied the potential threat to the privacy of journalists’ communication and data, surfaced after the revelations of mass surveillance by Edward Snowden. If nobody’s data is safe, can journalists claim they can protect their … Continued

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Published: 26 May 2015