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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, the Afghan media system has changed rapidly, becoming increasingly progressive. But is that enough to change society? From 1996 to 2001, Afghanistan was a country without pictures.

TV Nova, the most popular TV channel in the Czech Republic, is on the verge of becoming the property of the richest man in the country, the billionaire Petr Kellner. TV Nova’s parent company, Central ...

I was already very involved in European journalism at the Free University of Berlin, where we had set up a journalism school and established the European Journalism Fellowships programme. Since then, ...

Let’s take a look at the numbers. Seventy-four million Americans voted for Donald Trump, and, until his Twitter was blocked, there were more than 80 million users hungry for his unfiltered tall tales ...

One the one hand: A legacy, mainstream network which encompasses voices and outlets from the centre-right such as the Wall Street Journal, the centre to centre-left such as the NYT and the Washington ...