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February 16, 2010 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Kate Nacy
Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, reports from Haiti. Physician-journalists like Gupta typically appear on staff to offer a sophisticated understanding of medical science, clinical...
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January 19, 2010 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Kate Nacy
Last November, a conference hosted by the Institute of Applied Media Studies in Winterthur, Switzerland, examined the relationships among journalism, scholarship and the public interest. Barbie Zelizer, director of the Annenberg Scholars...
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January 14, 2010 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
When and under which conditions is journalism in the “public interest?” If one does not complacently assume whatever journalists publish is serving the common good, one gets into trouble finding a plausible answer to this question,...
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December 16, 2009 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Austrians are all too familiar with the unfavorable media attention focused on their Swiss neighbors, for as the Austrians learned, once the electorate sheers obstreperously from the consensus of “political correctness“ on which...
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November 24, 2009 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Kate Nacy
“Covering the Crisis,” a conference organized by the EJC, focuses on the media’s role in the financial crisis. Colossal failures in predicting the crash and reporting on Wall Street lie at the center of discussion. In her...
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September 26, 2009 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Many journalists face difficulties in dealing with statistics, and frequently lack the competence to present quantitative information to their publics in easy-to-grasp language. This is nothing new, as most journalism textbooks contain...
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September 22, 2009 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist, Nr. 8+9 During the last few years, many publishers in Europe experimented with changes to news formats. However, not all of these experiments in providing handy, magazine-like papers succeeded. The Swiss yellow-press...
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June 4, 2009 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, PR og kommunikasjon •
by Adam Szynol
Comparing Media Systems in Central Europe: Between Commercialization and Politization, 2008 Research Adam Szynol of the University of Wroclaw examines the effects of Passauer Neue Presse and Orkla Media on the Polish daily press market....
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April 25, 2009 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 17, 2009 Do corrections columns strengthen the news media’s credibility? A frequent victim of journalistic error, Barack Obama may have set records in name-botching. On his blog RegretTheError.com, media...
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