The center is welcoming researchers and practitioners who work in the center’s fields of interest. We are glad to announce the launch of our Fellowship Program, which is open to both young and experienced researchers and practitioners in the media and journalism field. The fellowship program is centered around a research project that fellows will…
Today, the Media and Journalism Research Center has launched its new strategy, covering the period 2023-2025. The center is planning in the next three years to focus on fighting media capture and declining trust in journalism wherever this work is needed. “Our belief is that the best way to support journalism today is by studying…
Editorial and content costs are the largest single area of expenditure for news publishers, accounting for just over a third (33.5%) of expenditure, Damian Radcliffe writes in an analysis published on Medium. This is almost double the next area, advertising and sales (15.8%), as well as general costs (15.6%) and print production (14.5%), according to…
Dr. Emma L. Briant published an article about the need for an urgent debate on propaganda ethics in Tech Policy Press. Dr. Briant argues in the article that “it’s time for a public debate about clandestine PSYOPs.” Dr. Emma L. Briant is a political communication scholar who researches contemporary propaganda and information warfare. The article…
On 13-14 October 2022, the research group Novos Medios (New Media) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) Faculty of Communications Sciences organized an academic workshop to present three major research projects. The workshop brought together a group of highly reputed academics from several universities in Spain. Two of the projects are run by…
A report about the findings of the latest study on state media issued by our center has been published by 444.hu, one of the leading news portals in Hungary. Discussing the deterioration of the editorial freedom in state media all over the world, the news outlet highlights the high share of state media that lack…
Euronews’ Turkish portal reported on the findings of the latest edition of our center’s State of State Media report, which covers 157 countries. The channel highlighted that some 84% of the world’s state media lack editorial independence, one of the study’s main findings. The outlet also reported that all of the mainstream media groups in…
As the Covid-19 infodemic has shown, business models in the global media and information space are not conducive to independent, fact-based journalism, but rather encourage the spread of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. At the same time, economic and technological pressures, coupled with a growing tendency of government control of the media through use of public…
Our director, Marius Dragomir moderated on 28 September 2022 a panel at the TrustCon conference in Palo Alto. Tittles “Can Journalists Make Tech Platforms More Trustworthy?”, the panel explored the impact that platform beat , “a new realm of watchdog journalism” (Phil Napoli) that has emerged in recent years, has on how tech platforms behave,…