Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
How To Report The News
and while we’re at it:
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 [...]
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 correct [...]
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 [...]
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 Moldova [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
Communicating the Lisbon Treaty…
… to the citizens seems to be a huge problem.
One could assume that at least in Ireland, the only country that will hold a referendum on the Treaty, things are slightly different. But apparently this is not true! This article (What exactly are we reforming in this treaty?) shows us all the [...]
Facts and myths in EU debates
Popular EU myths are always interesting and entertaining. Everybody probably remembers the stories about bananas, cucumbers or the “bombay mix” as well as the ‘evil EU (= Eurocrats) in Brussels that has no idea about reality’. So, either you are active in producing EU myths or you try to demystify them. However, a common approach [...]
