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 ...

The events studied were: the photographs of the body of three-year old Aylan Kurdi, (2 September); the day Germany introduced border controls (13 September); and the EU summit aimed at agreeing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coronavirus now completely dominates the news agenda in Germany. In an interview with the public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk on 19 March, media ethics expert Christian Schicha said that ...

In Austria, the rise of the far-right (now part of a coalition government) has been accompanied by the growth of a number of partisan and alternative websites. The best known of these is Unzensuriert ...