All the News That’s Fit For GDPR Compliance
© Screenshot For all the media buzz about the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) impact on different industries, little has been said about the impact on the news media industry itself. Maybe...
View ArticleInterested But Not Engaged – How European Media Cover Brexit
If one believes radical Brexiteers such as Nigel Farage or Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit is above all a question of “Them against us”. Europe? Only interested in harming the United Kingdom. The European...
View ArticleHave Europe’s Media Cut Back On Cookies?
© Wikimedia The volume of third-party content across Europe’s news sites has significantly decreased since the introduction of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25 2018, new...
View ArticleHow The EU Directive On Copyright Could Hamper Freedom Of Expression
CC BY 2.0 – Pixabay The European Parliament has recently approved the second reading of the proposal for a new directive on digital copyright. The aim of the directive seems simple enough: updating the...
View ArticleHow Tabloids Were Able To Frame The Debate Over Brexit
© Banksy, CC BY 2.0 While Brexit has been exhaustively discussed from a variety of perspectives, the role played by the British press, and in particular by tabloids, in framing the debate in the run up...
View ArticleThe pressing need for a European public sphere
The EJO’s co-founder calls for pan-European “alliances for enlightenment” to be created as part of the fightback against misinformation. Serious journalism is required to keep the public informed about...
View ArticleHow do the European media cover migration?
Migrants in a park outside the railway station in the northern Italian city of Como in the summer of 2016. Many migrants who were then trying to reach Northern Europe via Switzerland became stranded in...
View ArticleSad farewell or new dawn? Europe’s media reflect on ‘Brexit Day’
Two British papers used an image of the white cliffs of Dover on their front pages, but framed it in a very different way. Media across Europe used “Brexit Day” – 31 January, the day on which the...
View ArticleMedia pluralism ‘increasingly under threat across Europe’
To what extent is media pluralism – described in the latest Media Pluralism Monitor report (MPM2020) as “one of the essential pillars of democracy” – crumbling throughout Europe? Roman Winkelhahn...
View ArticleToxic Europeanisation – coverage of the 2019 EU elections
The fact that the media of European Union (EU) countries show little interest in the EU, has long been seen as the greatest obstacle to the emergence of a European public sphere. However, today we also...
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