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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The recent news that The New York Times is eliminating the position of Public Editor—sometimes called an ombudsman, or reader’s representative—is sad but not at all surprising. Not too long ago, back ...

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 ...

Disinformation has been an issue worldwide, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the Central and Eastern European experience is unique. The mixture of post-totalitarian legacy, Russian ...

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 ...

War reporting is currently dominating many European newsrooms, but coverage has extended beyond the classic “war correspondent” sent to report first-hand from the war zone. Since Russia started ...