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REPORT: The media industry faces another interesting, uncertain year
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has again published its predictions for the new year. The report, authored by Nic Newman, is based on a survey of 194 senior media industry...
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ARTICLE: Journalism produces its own kind of gendered institution
Many previous studies on journalism have overlooked journalism as a gendered institution, argue Iiris Ruoho and Sinikka Torkkola of the University of Tampere, in a new study. The gendered institution...
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ARTICLE: Alternative narratives of journalism in crisis from Singapore and...
Much research on the crisis of journalism has been done in the Anglo-American context. Less is known about alternative media systems. Shangyuan Wu of Nanyang Technological University, examined...
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REPORT: Gender inequalities in the media at the European level
Gender pay gap and discrimation remain as issues in the European media sector, but there are also new problems, such inequality within digital media platforms. New study looks at the European policy...
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ARTICLE: “News ecosystem” is not a neutral term
The commonly used term “news ecosystem” is not devoid of normative assumptions, but instead invokes ideological interpretation, Anthony Nadler, of Ursinus College, writes. Nadler’s essay chronicles...
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ARTICLE: US and China covered 2016 Olympic gymnastics very differently
Olympic Games are inherently nationalized competitions. Despite their differences, both the US network NBC and Chinese CCTV prioritize gymnastics coverage during the Summer Olympics. Andrew Billings...
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ARTICLE: Perceptions of audience shaping Al Jazeera’s news
What do journalists imagine their audiences are like, and how does this affect their work? Julian Matthews of the University of Leicester, and Maiya Al Habsi of Al-Bayan College, studied the topic in...
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ARTICLE: Big news agencies do not necessarily dominate international news...
Three transnational news agencies have dominated the wholesales of news. As media ecosystems are changing, so is the role of the agencies. Ali Rafeeq and Shujun Jiang of the United Arab Emirates...
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ARTICLE: The BBC does not live out the ideals of public service broadcasting
Independent and strong enough public service broadcasters are often seen as a defence against overly commercialized or state-captured media. The BBC has been praised as a global standard bearer in...
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ARTICLE: Politically active people in Taiwan still read print newspapers
Tien-Tsung Lee of the University of Kansas, and Yuki Fujioka of Georgia State University analyzed data from the Taiwan Communication Survey (TCS) from 2013, looking at which news and information...
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ARTICLE: Chinese media frame Islam and Muslims negatively
Chinese state news reports project an overall negative view of Muslims, a new study shows. Luwei Rose Luqiu of Pennsylvania State University, and Fan Yang of the University at Albany, conducted a...
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ARTICLE: Scandinavian news websites are not linked on equal terms
Hyperlinking patterns of news websites can be seen as indicators of flow of information. News outlets are not connected equally, and significant parts of the journalistic sector are disconnected from...
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ARTICLE: Challenging the political elite remains restricted in India
The relationship between the news media and individuals of the political elite in India can be conceptualized as ‘contingent heteronomy’, a new study argues. Swati Maheshwari and Colin Sparks, of Hong...
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ARTICLE: Convergence and de-convergence at a Chinese newsroom
A well-established organizational culture and a working routine are crucial for legacy media when adapting to rapid changes in the digital age, a new study states. Ke Li, of the University of...
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REPORT: High level of distrust in news in Turkey
People’s trust and mistrust in news media Turkey indicate a very polarised society and news media, a new report by Servet Yanatma of the University of Oxford, shows. The report is supplementary to the...
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ARTICLE: The US news system as “polarized liberal”
While many of the changes in United States’ media are discussed in relation to the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s presidency, “they are the symptoms of broader systemic dynamics that have been...
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ARTICLE: The coverage of the Ukraine conflict in 13 European countries
The crisis in Ukraine in 2014 was covered in varying ways around Europe. A group of researchers did a content analysis for coverage on the conflict from the first half of 2014. All in all, they...
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ARTICLE: Chinese media has a limited effect on Kenyan and South African students
The growing number of Chinese-owned media in different African has demonstrated how Beijing wants to create a stronger mediated relationship with Africa. Some of the media projects in recent years...
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ARTICLE: Western newspapers used a cultural framework when reporting the...
The Great East Japan Disaster of 2011 provides an important case study through which to evaluate how the western media cover Japan. Besides the nuclear crisis, limited attention has been paid to news...
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ARTICLE: The field of comparative journalism research is growing
In the recent years, comparative journalism studies have become more common. They have focused on Western authorship, the study of Western countries and elite media, quantitative methods of analysis...
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