The European Journalism Centre
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Blurring the line between editorial and advertising in the Netherlands
Bart Brouwers, 50, has been at the forefront of the quest for a new business model for journalism ever since he started working at Spits, the Dutch free daily newspaper. Last year Brouwers left his job as Spits' Editor in Chief to create a network of hyperlocal sites. But Splits' parent group,...
Who's pressing your 'Like' button?
For some journalists, success is now measured not just by circulation, ratings or online visitors but by the number of people who click social media 'Like' buttons on their pages. It's been only a year since Facebook let other websites put the button on their pages but it already feels like fo...
Wikileaks failed to deliver Bagdhad secrets
There were high expectations when Wikileaks announced that the biggest topic in its 250,000 leaked diplomatic cables was the war in Iraq. As the webmaster of an Iraqi newspaper, I imagined myself feasting on mountains of secret information. Wikileaks claimed it had over 6,600 cables from the ...
Italian media corrected by its audience on Japan earthquake
The earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March also shook Italian media outlets, with the audience protesting about their output. TV and newspaper reporters who were sent to the afflicted areas were blamed for failing to provide concise and reliable news, and accused of exaggeration and inaccura...
Sexual assault on journalist triggers ugly media reactions
On 11 February, the day Egypt's President Mubarak agreed to step down, a mob of about 200 people attacked a CBS television crew, separating Lara Logan, the network's chief foreign correspondent, from her colleagues. Logan was violently beaten and sexually assaulted until a group of women and ...
Pope gives blessing to social media
By Claudia Costa. Shortly after his election, Pope Benedict XVI was seen as more interested in his theological and philosophical studies than people's everyday concerns, as theologian Hans Küng underlined in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica last April. But last week, to mark the...
Dealing with a plague of fake and offensive comments
"I'm not a popular prime minister. I probably would have been more popular, if I was leaking to the press, initiating positive polls and paying comments agencies to post flattering comments about me." These words, from Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, are from a 2007 speech w...
Wikileaks spawns European imitator
Emma Brewin: Wikileaks spin-off Brussels Leaks launched out of the blue last Thursday, to much excitement in the European capital and Twittersphere beyond. The European Journalism Centre's exclusive email interview with an anonymous representative is amongst the first media contacts with the...
Radio in Central and Eastern Europe
The European Journalism Centre, based in the Netherlands, offers a daily updated selection of the latest developments in European and international media. In the feature below, Anca Dragu, a Romania-born journalist with Slovak public radio, reports on the state of radio journalism in Central a...
