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October 28, 2016 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk, Siste nytt •
by Robert G. Picard
There are critical vulnerabilities in contemporary journalism practice that allow populist parties and their supporters to actively manipulate the press and subvert democratic processes. Journalists need to be aware and respond to these....
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October 20, 2016 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Forsking, Siste nytt •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The warning signs have been ignored for a long time: news media are endangered and are losing ground against propagandists in the digital world. Well before Pegida aficionados started to chant “Lügenpresse” (“lying press”) in...
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October 11, 2016 •
Aktuelt, Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk •
by Gábor Polyák
The publisher Mediaworks has suspended the publication of Népszabadság, Hungary’s leading opposition newspaper and highest circulation broadsheet. Though the measure was officially referred to as a suspension, in reality it...
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October 7, 2016 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk •
by Halyna Budivska
Ukrainian journalists find it hard to remain neutral and independent when covering the conflict in their country. Many are torn between feelings of patriotism and their role as detached observers, new research has found. Of the 47...
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September 30, 2016 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk •
by Alice Antheaume
“Someone close to”, “an intimate”, “a friend”, “a confidante”, “a former minister”. A recent political article in Liberation, France, contained no fewer than 11 anonymous sources in 1340 words. The day after it was...
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September 14, 2016 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Journalistiske prosjekt, Notisar •
by Anna Andrievskaya
Public interest in popular science journalism is growing in Russia. New platforms, blogs and an online television channel, aiming to make complex scientific subjects more accessible, have been launched to meet the demand. One site, started...
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August 23, 2016 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Redaksjonell styring •
by Ville Seuri
Editors are often so occupied with running the day-to-day news operation they have little time to concentrate on what their organisations should become. Yet news organisations must innovate to stay relevant to their audiences. I asked...
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July 12, 2016 •
Aktuelt, Etikk & Kvalitet, Forretningsmodellar •
by Vas Panagiotopoulos
On a late June morning in a hotel in central Athens, the award-winning journalist Yavuz Baydar is discussing the erosion of press freedom in Turkey. “The Panama Papers were completely ignored,” he shrugs. In the audience, there are...
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July 4, 2016 •
Aktuelt, Etikk & Kvalitet •
by EJO
The network of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is expanding into the Arab world. Together with the Media Development Centre (MDC) in Tunisia, the EJO has created an Arabic Journalism Observatory (AJO – www.ajo-ar.org). With a...
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