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Research: Europe’s Media Ignore Pan-European News Stories
Flickr/CC Important pan-European news stories, such as the Ukraine crisis, are often overlooked by Europe’s media – including the quality press – according to new research. A comparative analysis of...
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Will It Kill Us Or Make Us Stronger? How Europe’s Media Covered Brexit
Will it kill us or make us stronger? The front-page headline of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, June 25 Europe’s newspapers were overwhelmingly negative towards Britain’s vote to leave the European Union,...
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Has Journalism Been Let Down By The EU?
The EU has spent millions of euros on publicising itself, but far less on supporting European journalism. The European Union is celebrating itself – the so-called Treaty of Rome was sealed 60 years ago...
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Europe’s chance to show the value of a ‘soft power’ collaboration to fight...
© Wikimedia, CC0 In many countries over the past few years, the political process – and social cohesion – have been threatened by various forms of disinformation, sometimes misleadingly and...
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Why It Matters When The EU Denies Access To Journalists
© Wikimedia Last week, I received an email from the European Commission denying me annual accreditation for the year 2018. In the terse reply to my request sent more than six weeks earlier, the...
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How Europe’s Media Cover Brexit
© Wikimedia News media in the UK, perhaps understandably, often seem to be obsessed with Brexit and its implications. Rarely a day passes which does not see another alarmist article being published on...
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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...
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Interested 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...
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Have 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...
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How 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...
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How 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...
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The 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...
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How 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...
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Sad 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...
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Media 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...
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Toxic 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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