Every journalist has experienced a time when emotional intelligence became a more important element in news gathering and reporting than merely stating “the facts”. Whether they’re trying to persuade ...

When Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, visited Kenya in 2015, it was a major news story across the world. But while reporters from major international news outlets took all ...

"Powerful, inexpensive and creative.." - NOT inexpensive! Mobile journalism proponents make a lot of noise about using the latest and greatest smartphones and best apps, That is not an inexpensive ...

THE only red tops plying their trade in Fleet Street these days are the open-deck tour buses that drive along it, as part of the booming London tourism industry. “Of course, the reporters and printers ...

In the five years since the European refugee crisis began, controversies related to migration have deeply affected political landscapes across the EU, yet no “European solutions” have so far been ...

Stephan Russ-Mohl analyses how the phenomena of 'fan culture' and 'tribalism' are influencing and shaping media trends and coverage.

This is the second part of a two part study, comparing Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM). In a first article on the subject, we found that PSM’s budgets vary enormously across Europe and ...

The German Tagesschau on public broadcaster ARD, its Swiss counterpart of the same name on SRF and the Zeit im Bild (ZIB) 1 on Austria’s public broadcaster ORF are, undisputedly, the news programmes ...

Mexico recently lived through the biggest election in its history with more than 3400 political positions, including the Presidency, at stake. For a brief moment it seemed that the eyes of the entire ...

Journalists reporting on the coronavirus pandemic face a huge challenge. Communication scientist Florian Meißner looks at some of the things they need to bear in mind when approaching the topic.

The Czech media landscape has significantly changed over the last five years. A wealth of new and independent journalistic projects – fact checkers, independent outlets and charities – has shot up, ...

In recent years we’ve seen the emergence of a number of alternative, populist, or partisan websites that have grown rapidly in some countries largely through free social media distribution. In most ...