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 ...

On 24 November 2024, in the first round of presidential elections, 23 Romanian citizens out of 100 who voted chose a candidate with no party, no electoral staff, no declared electoral budget and ...

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 ...

Donald Trump is gone. But more will remain of Trumpism than we would like – and the media will have to come to terms with the extent to which its work has played a role in allowing the former ...

In the last decade, an ever growing number of journalists reporting on environmental issues have been assaulted, imprisoned or killed. The practical and psychological consequences of these attacks are ...

Two decades later, the same photo reappeared online. This time, however, it had been doctored for use as a propaganda tool. The edited picture aims to persuade the viewer that the same woman is a ...

A survey of bylines and editorial photographs in the print editions of the Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Mail, each over seven dates during May and August 2017, revealed that three ...

Seven-step structure According to Alfter, cross-border journalism is generally structured as a series of seven work steps: 1. the network, 2. the idea, 3. the research team, 4. the work plan, 5. the ...

The refugee crisis in Germany in 2015 shook the foundations of trust in the German media. According to a study by “infratest dimap” commissioned by the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, 60 percent of Germans ...

In Ukraine, such stories are tracked by Stopfake, a project founded in 2014 by young local media experts and students. But the operators of this fact-checking website still have a lot to do. In ...

In the leading news programmes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, these events generally received little and sometimes no attention. The geographical distribution of reports shows that the global ...

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 ...