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Europe Gets the Stink Eye
Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) releases Press Freedom Index 2010. Last year was a particularly grim one for journalists, as the number of murdered reporters rose...
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Piracy Protection
EU and US join forces, launch website, battle piracy. The new site – the Transatlantic IPR Portal – was devised to help small software and hardware developers protect their intellectual property from...
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The EU, its Neighbours and the Journalism Revolution
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre Among many others, one of the challenges faced by post-revolutionary countries concerns journalism and the media. A free, pluralistic, and...
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MEDIADEM Project Moves into Final Year
As MEDIADEM authors continue plowing through their research, the scope of the €2.65 million media policy project takes shape. In a thorough examination, project director Evangelia Psychogiopoulou from...
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Terror Law Interpretations Shape Future for Turkish Journalists
Journalists in Turkey face increasing harassment and imprisonment due to a handful of loosely interpreted anti-terrorism laws. As publicity of the intimidation continues, convincing the Turkish...
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The Dark Side of Turkey
There’s been a recent revival of trials attempting to integrate Turkey into the EU, yet advocates of such an action should perhaps take a closer look. Unfortunately, Western media rarely report on the...
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A Pan-European Newspaper
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre On a Tuesday morning in Rome, a woman drinks her espresso while browsing the European Daily in a noisy cafeteria. At the same time in Stockholm, an...
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Eight Ways the EU Can Help Journalism
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre Why is the European Union so ineffective when it comes to supporting press freedom and media pluralism? The Vice President of the European Commission...
View ArticleGreece: Crisis Raises Censorship on the Media
Journalists arrested, netizens remanded to trial. A petition calls on EU authorities to intervene as the media in Athens faces a new season of menace. Economic crisis is bearing down hard in the...
View ArticleEU Moves toward a Digital Freedom Strategy
Digital rights deserve just as much protection as the fundamental rights according to the European Parliament in Strasburg, which recently endorsed a report on “Digital Freedom Strategy in Foreign...
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Do as I Say, not as I do. Media and Accountability
The European Union’s proposal to strengthen national media self-regulatory bodies has triggered a new debate on whether or not regulatory institutions carry out their tasks effectively and efficiently....
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EJO Portugal Now Online
The European Journalism Observatory is pleased to announce the launch of its newest partner website, EJO Portugal. The Portuguese language website, coordinated by Professor Gustavo Cardoso and Ana...
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Research: When News Excludes
European news is dominated by white, middle aged men. While men over the age of 40 feature in three-quarters of news stories, women are the protagonists in only a quarter of news, according to new...
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Generation E: Data Journalism and Migration
An estimated 11 million European Union citizens live in a different EU country from which they were born. Generation E, the first cross-border data journalism project on European youth migration, aims...
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Politico Europe – Is There A European Public Sphere?
Politico Europe – the new Brussels-based site covering European politics – is doing important pioneer work in establishing the notion of there even being such a thing as a ‘European public sphere’. For...
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Superficial And Eurosceptic? British Press Coverage Of The EU
British press coverage of Europe is often superficial, one-sided, and eurosceptic, according to academics and journalists speaking at a recent conference on Britain’s place in the EU. Speakers at the...
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Research: Gays In The Headlines, Comparing Russia And Germany
If you try typing the terms ‘homosexuality’ or ‘gay’ into Yandex News, Russia’s most widely-used search engine, no results will be displayed. Readers are given the impression that these themes do not...
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Research: How Europe’s Media Reported The Euro Crisis
News coverage of the Euro Crisis across Europe has tended to portray European institutions as important, but ineffectual, in dealing with the crisis and to take national rather than a European approach...
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Reporting Europe: Why Journalists In Brussels Should Get Out More
There are few views that are more unanimously shared by all European journalists than this: it is close to impossible to report well on the European Union. The bureaucratic monster only makes great...
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How Media In Greece Reported The Migration Crisis
Europe’s migration crisis has transformed Greece into something more than just a transit country. Countless journalists from media all over the world have travelled to the islands and the borders to...
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