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September 25, 2014 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk •
by Stefan Antonov
The business partnership that has controlled most of Bulgaria’s media for the past seven years has split, following a reported dispute between the two oligarchs behind it. One, Tsvetan Vassilev, is in Serbia, awaiting extradition to...
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August 20, 2014 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Forsking, Journalistiske prosjekt, Mediepolitikk •
by Paulina Pacula
Europe’s media often ignores, or reports negatively, issues faced by minority groups and indigenous people, such as Crimean Tatars and Roma, according to human rights groups....
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July 22, 2014 •
Digitale nyhende, Pressefridom •
by Caroline Lees
An EU ruling, giving individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’ on the internet, has been criticized by UK journalists after Google deleted links to their articles from its search engine. Robert Peston, BBC News economics editor, last...
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July 4, 2014 •
Pressefridom •
by Liga Ozolina
The decision by Cairo’s court to sentenced three Al-Jazeera English (AJE) journalists – Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste has shocked journalists around the world. It has raised questions about the independence of the...
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June 24, 2014 •
Journalistiske prosjekt, Pressefridom •
by Evgeniya Boklage
This article has been updated. Details below. Alexander Sodiqov a Tajik blogger at Global Voices and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto was detained in Tajikistan on June 16, in a case that raises issues of freedom of expression...
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June 12, 2014 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk •
by Thomas Schmidt
When the US Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal from James Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter for the New York Times, it effectively declined to settle a long-simmering debate about the legal consequences of reporting leaks....
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June 5, 2014 •
Forsking, Mediepolitikk •
by Beatrice Gatti
News is growing more negative. Research shows this is a a growing trend in political news and articles. Researchers argue that the political stories are commonly framed negatively, and the cynical coverage appears focused on the...
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May 12, 2014 •
Forsking, Pressefridom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Internet gurus and serious researchers have had great expectations that the internet will give us new freedoms and the potential for democratization. Sadly, the empirical findings provided by two American researchers, Karin Deutsch...
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April 9, 2014 •
Forsking, Mediepolitikk •
by Thomas Schmidt
Determining the relationship between journalism and politics often amounts to a chicken-and-egg-situation: Who drives whose agenda? Is it media outlets dictating the news of the day or is it politicians and their spin doctors manufacturing...
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