In light of the recently published report, UK Journalists in the 2020s: Who they are, how they work, and what they think, Lea ...

Changes in the industry have contributed to the situation. Job cuts at many newspapers and publishers over the years led to a decline in topic diversity and harmed the quality of coverage. Poor career ...

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 ...

EJO German staff writers look at the coverage of the coronavirus crisis by public service broadcasters and local media, and consider the impact of the economic fallout on the journalistic profession.

Eastern European countries are a particularly good playing field for disseminating disinformation using new information technologies. Especially the Baltic States and Ukraine continue to be the ...

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 2004, Stephan Russ-Mohl founded the EJO with colleagues from the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano; the first websites appeared in German, Italian and English. Today, the EJO is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Europe grapples with a second wave and looks forward to a promising vaccine, Stephan Russ Mohl reflects on how the media has reported on COVID-19 and offers pointers on what they could have done ...

In the five years since the European refugee crisis began, controversies related to migration have deeply affected political landscapes across the EU, yet no “European solutions” have so far been ...