Education in journalism emphasizes internships, apprenticeships, and other opportunities to learn journalism by doing journalism; however, most computer-mediated communication tools do not have such a provision. The fully open structure of Wiki matches the principles of learning journalism while, from a technical point of view, Wiki provides a very easy way for users to report, write and edit. ...

Political journalism plays a key role in current democracies. However, its functional features and dynamics change depending on the geographic context within which they are set. One of the distinctive features of the Spanish case is the high level of political commitment on the part of the media. The aim of this paper is to analyse the main problems that currently result from this high level of...

Media freedom has deteriorated across the world over past 15 years with populist leaders attacking journalism in both democratic and repressive states. Since rise of online misinformation disinformation, concern is growing that governments are using fake news language related laws to muzzle press. Studies find labelling reporters their stories as can threaten journalistic norms practices have i...

Unfortunately much existing scholarly research on news performance suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity and comparability. The authors will summarize existing efforts to analyze news content in ways that is comparable across cultures and facilitates cumulative science. Using six concepts that feature prominently in Western discussions of news performance – negativity, bias/diversity, hard/...

press training and may be reluctant to engage the media. However, many universities employ press officers with journalism background and keen to work with scientists in communicating their papers to the media. Scientists need to be more proactive in working with traditional and new media, recruiting the help of their press offices, and communicating their findings to the general public through ...

In discussing the sociology of newswork, much attention has been given to aspects such as the journalist’s background, work routines, and the influence of media ownership. Media production studies have covered empricial and conceptual ground investigating the myriad influences on editorial decision-making processes in journalism. Yet such studies (with few exceptions) have focused mainly on mai...

Journalism has enjoyed a rich and relatively stable history of professionalization. Scholars coming from a variety of disciplines have theorized this history, forming a consistent body of knowledge codified in national and international handbooks and canonical readers. However, recent work and analysis suggest that the supposed core of journalism and the assumed consistency of the inner working...

It’s been over century since the question «Did royal Russian government pursue a tough colonial policy in Central Asia and Turkestan including Kazakh steppes?» has matter of heated debate scientific literature. Many articles about region were published last decade. In particular, scientists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Japan, Italy, United States, France, Germany, Kingdom co...