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November 12, 2014 •
Digitale nyhende, Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Michal Kus
Data journalism is being increasingly promoted and supported by media organizations and universities in Poland. Interactive data platforms have recently been launched by two of the country’s biggest newspaper groups, and academic courses...
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November 4, 2014 •
Mediepolitikk •
by Thomas Schmidt
Campaigning for the 2014 US mid-term elections has been largely negative and confrontational. Candidates have depended less on traditional media to get their political message across, relying instead on data-driven journalism, statistics,...
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November 4, 2014 •
Notisar, Sensur •
by Mikal Hem
All dictatorships and authoritarian regimes censor the media in some way. The reason is obvious: a free press will usually investigate the actions of government officials, give space to the opposition and publish ideas contrary to official...
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October 31, 2014 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Researchers occasionally make us aware of the insanity of scholarly “productivity“. The publish or perish system young researchers are forced into and the brutal competition they face. Thomas Hanitzsch, of the University of Munich, has...
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October 30, 2014 •
Digitale nyhende •
by Philip Di Salvo
Journalists and researchers are increasingly asked to understand, and interpret, vast amounts of data. Some of the most important recent public interest news stories were discovered hidden amongst complex statistics. As our understanding...
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October 24, 2014 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Peter Laufer
I teach the Journalistic Interview course at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Over the last few years I have been unable to find an up-to-date text to augment my classroom lectures and student assignments....
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October 22, 2014 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Caroline Lees
Journalism covers the European Union well – for the elite. Global newspapers, wire services, specialist magazines, websites and think tanks, as well as the information published by the EU institutions themselves, are well informed and...
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October 17, 2014 •
Journalistiske prosjekt, Medieøkonomi •
by Bret Schulte
Newspaper industry panics are not new. In the 1990s declining circulations prompted Northwestern University, in the US, to survey 37,000 readers in 100 newspaper markets, to find out why sales were dropping. It found that feature-style...
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October 16, 2014 •
Digitale nyhende •
by Rachel Stern
Since the infamous “Right To Be Forgotten” ruling came into effect throughout Europe in May, it has been widely debated. Should search engines, adhering to the EU Court of Justice’s decision, be required to remove links to...
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