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 ...

Tabloid Populism And The Legitimation Of Brexit In The British Press These characterisations played a pivotal role in how tabloids were able to frame the debate over the Brexit referendum around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Amidst recent political and social upheavals, younger journalists in the UK consider roles such as ‘advocating for social change’ and ‘to speak on behalf of the marginalised’ as more important than ...

History has shown us that where freedom of the press declines, democracy suffers. That is why press freedom has remained a burning issue for countries around the globe. And while the Federal ...

Sisanda Nkoala, University of South Africa; Blessing Makwambeni, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and Trust Matsilele, Cape Peninsula University of Technology The number of South African ...

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 ...