Democratic institutions are faltering—and with them, journalism and the public sphere. Within that context, it is important ...

This article examines how music documentaries increasingly function as a research-based media format that combines ...

Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of ...

Tabloid Populism And The Legitimation Of Brexit In The British Press These characterisations played a pivotal role in how tabloids were able to frame the debate over the Brexit referendum around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We tend not to look back when electoral outcomes swing favourably, not for one political party, but for the integrity of democratic processes themselves, with their web of procedures, safeguards and, ...

History has shown us that where freedom of the press declines, democracy suffers. That is why press freedom has remained a burning issue for countries around the globe. And while the Federal ...

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 ...

Many free speech advocates, government officials, cybersecurity experts, and even Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg agree that the Internet’s original techno-libertarian ethos is no longer sustainable. In ...

There are various perspectives on the increasing academisation of journalism training. However, the fact that one must learn the profession in some form before joining it, is probably undisputed. But ...