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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

National newspapers in the UK are mostly written by male journalists, even though women make up nearly half of the profession. The majority of news, business and comment articles are written by men ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...