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December 3, 2013 •
Digitale nyhende, Pressefridom •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The recent issue of New Eastern Europe, a news journal with the focus on Central and Eastern European affairs, has a special section on Digital Eastern Europe. In it, the group of authors look at the internet and surrounding technologies...
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December 2, 2013 •
Digitale nyhende •
by Thomas Schmidt
A new study by C. W. Anderson looks at the practices of news aggregators, problematizes the “originality” of original content and calls for “networks of journalistic expertise”. The research suggests that aggregators and...
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November 29, 2013 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The Economist is one of the rare news publications that are surviving, and thriving in the economic downturn. It managed to set up an innovative digital product and keep its print version profitable. It enjoys the privilege of maintaining...
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November 28, 2013 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Tina Bettels
In the U.S., many newspaper companies have sold their headquarters in the city centers and moved to smaller buildings in the suburbs. Those that haven’t are sharing their buildings with others firms. For example, San Francisco Chronicle...
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November 21, 2013 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl and Meera Selva
Ambitious, original, labour intensive journalism costs money, but is worth little on the open market. As behavioural economist Dan Ariely argues, most of us tend to behave irrationally if we can get something that appears to be free. We...
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November 20, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
On October 18, after a violent anti-migrant rally in Moscow’s Birulevo district, the radio station “Vesti FM,” part of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (ВГТРК), launched the Migrant Moscow (Москва...
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November 19, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Meera Selva
Why do countries feel the need to own a news channel? To inform their citizens about the world, or to inform the world about their citizens? A seminar organized by the BBC World Service, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
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November 14, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Tina Bettels
The connections between media and politics are deeply rooted in the Italian society and it seems very difficult to separate them, even without the media baron Silvio Berlusconi as the head of the Italian government. This is one of the...
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November 13, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Pressefridom •
by Stewart Purvis
After a career as both a journalist (BBC and ITN) and a regulator (Ofcom) I had come to the conclusion that my colleagues in British journalism weren’t very interested in reading rules that somebody had written for them. How then to...
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