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Biased Reporting: The Greek Debt Crisis
A new study examining recent press coverage of the ongoing Greek debt crisis shows that most newspapers in Italy, Britain, and France featured biased reporting of events. Cristina Marconi, an Italian...
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The Dark Side of Turkey
There’s been a recent revival of trials attempting to integrate Turkey into the EU, yet advocates of such an action should perhaps take a closer look. Unfortunately, Western media rarely report on the...
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Journalism +65
Pensioned journalists have created online news sites, thus becoming competitors to their former employers. It seems legacy media have not yet learned to use the potential of experienced seniors. Within...
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When Self-Regulation Works
It’s not every day that an American trade journal like the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) shows serious interest in something happening outside the U.S. Recently, however, the journal dedicated a...
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Media Mafia
Will Rupert Murdoch withdraw from the United Kingdom and instead aggrandize his media empire in the U.S.? Ken Doctor, an American media economist and columnist for the Nieman Lab at Harvard University...
View ArticlePlaying up, playing down
How have the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal covered Murdoch’s News of the World hacking scandal?Alessia Borrè of the University of Lugano has dedicated her bachelor thesis to this question....
View ArticlePress Freedom Under Scrutiny
“Reporters Without Borders“ has once again published its annual Press Freedom Index. According to the ranking, Finland remains the global “front runner,” followed by the Netherlands, Norway, and...
View ArticleTwo Clowns Hit Italian Politics
Spiegel Online’s pre-election coverage last week was not wrong, yet somehow it missed the decisive point in its pull quote: “A clown, a billionaire, an apparatchik and a professor who understands...
View ArticleHow Reliable Are Press Freedom Rankings?
In a recent post we discussed the merits and limits of press freedom rankings. One of the rather sad facts is that newsrooms rarely ask how such rankings are created. Researchers seem to be more...
View ArticleData And Facts About the Swiss Media System
Due to the four languages, the sophisticated federalism and the direct democracy, and – last not least – due to a booming advertising branch in the „island of wealth“, Switzerland’s media landscape has...
View ArticleSelf-Blockage: Media Research and Practice
Media researchers and journalists in busy newsrooms have spent decades ignoring each other. Anyone who tries to bring the two together has to work out how to combine the ordered, stately pace of...
View ArticleIn the Stocks! An Economic Case for Media Responsibility
Media managers and journalists are not good at dealing with criticism. They demand accountability and transparency from others, but do not see why they should hold themselves up to similar scrutiny....
View ArticleThrough a PRISM, darkly. Media and Accountability
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...
View ArticleThe Fellow Guardians of Journalism
With their long academic traditions, university-based journalism fellowship programmes look like relics from the past, but they are in fact needed now more than ever. The Nieman Fellowships at...
View ArticleAustrian Media Managers – the Better Journalists?
A new survey of media managers in Austria offers some unexpected insights into how different parts of media organisations think. For the first time, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Matthias Karmasin und Daniela...
View ArticleThe Snowden-Effect, Wikileaks and Watergate
At a first glance, president Obama’s recent speech about the NSA seems to support arguments by Dan Gillmor, one of America’s most prominent Internet gurus. He believes that the fallout from the...
View ArticleSwiss media’s culpability in the anti-immigration vote
Switzerland’s decision this weekend to vote in favour of imposing quotas on the numbers of newcomers into the country has caused uproar across Europe, and within the country. Germany’s Ralf Stegner,...
View ArticleMedia and Politics: A Swiss Dance
A study looking at how politicians and journalists interact with each other in Berne reveals some surprises about the interplay between media and government. Is the interaction between journalists and...
View ArticleTen Years of Monitoring the Fourth Estate
As the EJO celebrates its 10th anniversary, founder Stephan Russ-Mohl looks back at its founding principles. It is kind of a miracle: The European Journalism Observatory (EJO) has not only survived for...
View ArticleFinancial Journalism and PR: Andrew Gowers Interview
Andrew Gowers was editor of the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005. He then moved into public relations, and was head of corporate communications at Lehman Brothers, and later head of group media at BP....
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