Though climate change is now regularly acknowledged to be “the defining story of our time” by media worldwide, many European media outlets have yet to formulate a clearly defined editorial policy on ...

The refugee crisis in 2015 shook the foundations of trust in the German media. A few years later, the situation is slowly improving but a lot remains to be done. The younger generation of journalists, ...

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 ...

"Powerful, inexpensive and creative.." - NOT inexpensive! Mobile journalism proponents make a lot of noise about using the latest and greatest smartphones and best apps, That is not an inexpensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, the news field has turned into a real front line, where even objective publications involuntarily become part of a large information mosaic. Every editorial office balances daily between 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 ...

In the five years since the European refugee crisis began, controversies related to migration have deeply affected political landscapes across the EU, yet no “European solutions” have so far been ...

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 ...

Stephan Russ-Mohl analyses how the phenomena of 'fan culture' and 'tribalism' are influencing and shaping media trends and coverage.

Annulled last year due to foreign interference, the re-run of Romania’s presidential elections continues to be overshadowed by concerns over opaque affiliations, cyberattacks, and coordinated online ...