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July 26, 2013 •
Pressefridom •
by Meera Selva
Governments in 2012 have attacked journalists, created new laws to kill off new independent digital media, and sparked off a huge diplomatic row over teddy bears, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
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July 25, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Bastian Pietsch
In June, the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism hosted a conference on the portrayal of Africa in the European media. One of the key points to emerge was that the European media is doing a disservice to its audiences and to...
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July 23, 2013 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Karen Grass
Latvian journalism has only had two decades in which to grow up. Most East European countries had to develop fast after emerging from Soviet Union control. The media systems of these new nation states have gone in very different...
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July 17, 2013 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
We are used to the media turning on those who seek to expose corruption and malpractice. But it is shocking nonetheless how soon media companies, when presented with one of the biggest data scandals in world history- namely the news that...
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July 16, 2013 •
Digitale nyhende, Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Philip Di Salvo
The market for drones is expanding rapidly and will soon play an important role in the way journalism works, according to a new report. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International estimates that in the next ten years, the...
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July 8, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Federico Guerrini
Fact-checking is an old journalistic practice now being brought into considerably greater prominence due to the possibilities offered by the Internet. Fact checking is an important job, that began to be done systematically at some US...
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July 5, 2013 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Jonila Godole
In Albania, mainstream media focuses on news coming out of the capital city Tirana The rest of the country only gets attention if there is a natural disaster or dramatic human-interest story. Even within Tirana, marginalized communities...
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July 2, 2013 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by David Levy
One of the most fascinating insights in the Reuters Institute 2013 Digital News Report is the relative performance of today’s news organisations in the online space as opposed to their performance offline. The figures in the report...
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July 2, 2013 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Simon P. Balzert
Journalism often deals with violence and catastrophe. So journalists must continually make decisions on how to use images of corpses, conflict, and trauma. A journalism diploma thesis by Simon Balzert at the Technische Universität...
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