In 2004, Stephan Russ-Mohl founded the EJO with colleagues from the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano; the first websites appeared in German, Italian and English. Today, the EJO is a ...

Many free speech advocates, government officials, cybersecurity experts, and even Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg agree that the Internet’s original techno-libertarian ethos is no longer sustainable. In ...

Disinformation has been an issue worldwide, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the Central and Eastern European experience is unique. The mixture of post-totalitarian legacy, Russian ...

European news outlets have slowly started to shed light on the potentially harmful errors of artificial intelligence (AI). But the narratives around these technologies are still dominated by a ...

Manipulating images to give them false context or convey untrue information is a common practice nowadays. Dubbed, ‘deepfakes’, the trend is being facilitated by access to expensive hardware and AI ...

Donald Trump is gone. But more will remain of Trumpism than we would like – and the media will have to come to terms with the extent to which its work has played a role in allowing the former ...

Like virtually every other industry, the coronavirus pandemic caught the media by surprise. As publishers, editors, reporters and freelancers stepped off the dizzying roller-coaster ride of 2020, ...

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 ...

Turkey is currently the largest prison for journalists in the world, with over 80 media workers in detention. Not content with that, the Turkish parliament has now passed a law that gives the ...

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Journalists reporting on the coronavirus pandemic face a huge challenge. Communication scientist Florian Meißner looks at some of the things they need to bear in mind when approaching the topic.

EJO German staff writers look at the coverage of the coronavirus crisis by public service broadcasters and local media, and consider the impact of the economic fallout on the journalistic profession.