Action-oriented research remains relatively unexplored in journalism, for valid reasons. In this essay, Namrata Archarya ...

Accessibility is still missing from many newsroom diversity conversations. That failure does not only exclude audiences. It ...

From “Letters to the editor” to comments on news websites and social media pages: audience feedback can take many forms. But does it also affect how readers see a story? Can negative comments from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have heard it all again at Cop 27. Last month, the UN’s climate change summit in Egypt warned that the planet is “sending a distress signal” and that the past eight years were on track to be the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...