Tag Archives: journalism
What if political scientists covered the news?
Read it here. So, what if political scientists covered EU news in newspapers in that way? (no, unfortunately I don’t have time to write something…possibly something for my to-do list
How To Report The News
and while we’re at it:
Posted in European Debate, culture, humour Also tagged BBC, charlie brooker, media, news, poll, statistics, TV, UK 2 Comments
Dear Journalists…
Following the Yes vote on the Lisbon treaty in Ireland the media is full with articles and reports about the EU, the Lisbon treaty and the Irish vote. Unfortunately, journalistic accuracy for EU related topic is not that widespread. At least I get the impression after reading and watching a fair amount of material in [...]
Posted in European Union Also tagged EU, EU reporting, institutions, Ireland, lisbon treaty, referendum 13 Comments
EU Terminology for Dummies
A short guide for bloggers and journalists that write about EU affairs and are exposed to “Eurojargon“. Not only acronyms are an art form but also normal EU terminology can be tricky. Language plays an important role in constructing a certain image of the EU and journalists and bloggers should be aware of that. The [...]
Posted in Brussels, European Debate Also tagged EU, EU reporting, eurojargon, institutions, language, terminology 9 Comments
EU news in regional newspapers
I am in Stuttgart at the moment and our local newspaper, the Stuttgarter Zeitung just relaunched and got a new layout and structure. It is a broadsheet with a circulation of around 150 000. It is one of the big regional newspapers in Germany. Yes, I know newspapers are so 20th century and it is [...]
Posted in European Debate Also tagged EU reporting, local, media, newspaper, regional, Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Zeitung 5 Comments
Civil society reacts on crisis in Moldova
A number of well known Moldovan civil society leaders issued a statement on the crisis: Declaration regarding the escalating social and political situation in Moldova after the parliamentary elections of April 5, 2009 (pdf) The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) also published a ‘Moldovan NGO statement’: A Sustainable Solution to Political Crisis in [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe Also tagged Chisinau, Civil Society, GMF, media, Moldova, NGO, pman, press freedom, revolution 2 Comments
De Staandard compares EU with Latvian poems
A short episode from today’s DNA conference in Brussels which was an interesting event mixing new web start-ups and established media companies. At a panel with the ‘traditional’ media the question came up whether established media cover EU affairs in-depth enough? The question was primarily directed to the chief editor of De Standaard, one of [...]
Posted in Brussels, European Debate, European Union Also tagged de standaard, digital news affairs, dna09, dna2009, media, newspaper, NOS, reporting Europe 7 Comments
The mindset of EU Journalists
Here are the results of an intereting survey (pdf) on “Media relations and Europe – from the journalist’s perspective”. It was carried out by APCO, a public affairs consultancy in partnership with Journalists at Your Service (J@YS). Although the sample was relatively small (121 respondents = 10% of Brussels press corps) there are quite some [...]
Posted in European Debate Also tagged communication, EU, EU blogs, Europe, European Union, journalist, politics, PR 4 Comments
The Daily Mail Song