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January 13, 2015 •
Journalistiske prosjekt, Mediepolitikk, Pressefridom •
by Thomas Schmidt
The New York Times and other media outlets in the United States were slammed by readers and bloggers after not reprinting controversial cartoons of Charlie Hebdo in the aftermath of the terrorist attack last week. One criticism so incensed...
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January 9, 2015 •
Journalistiske prosjekt, Mediepolitikk •
by Caroline Lees
When Gergő Sáling was abruptly dismissed from his job as editor-in-chief of Hungarian news portal, Origo.hu, last June, at least half of Origo’s newsroom resigned in protest. Many claimed Saling had been sacked for refusing to stop an...
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January 6, 2015 •
Digitale nyhende, Forsking •
by Rachel Stern
An estimated 11 million European Union citizens live in a different EU country from which they were born. Generation E, the first cross-border data journalism project on European youth migration, aims to tell, and catalogue some of their...
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January 2, 2015 •
Digitale nyhende, Mediepolitikk •
by Caroline Lees
In 2015 journalism will continue to be shaped by digital technology. Virtual reality could soon enable users to wear their news, or sense it via a headset. Simple news stories will be written by robots and curated by algorithm. Digital...
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December 19, 2014 •
Mediepolitikk •
by Artan Fuga
Almost 100% of political news reported by Albanian public television (ATV) was based on public relations sources, or materials produced by government institutions and political parties, according to empirical research conducted during...
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December 17, 2014 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Vitor Tome
European news is dominated by white, middle aged men. While men over the age of 40 feature in three-quarters of news stories, women are the protagonists in only a quarter of news, according to new research. Migrants, immigrants, disabled...
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December 12, 2014 •
Forretningsmodellar •
by Tiziano Bonini
An online newspaper with a difference has been launched in Italy. Gli Stati Generali is a journalistic start-up with a strong IT component. The difference between this newspaper and others lies in its business model: contributors are...
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December 11, 2014 •
Forsking •
by Caroline Lees
The European Journalism Observatory is pleased to announce the launch of its newest partner website, EJO Portugal. The Portuguese language website, coordinated by Professor Gustavo Cardoso and Ana Pinto Martinho, from the Lisbon University...
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December 10, 2014 •
Mediepolitikk •
by Peter Bajomi-Lazar
A recent opinion piece, published on the EJO website, offered a rosy picture of the state of media freedom and of democracy in Hungary – a view that few analysts would share; in fact, many would argue that both media freedom and...
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