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 ...

The German Tagesschau on public broadcaster ARD, its Swiss counterpart of the same name on SRF and the Zeit im Bild (ZIB) 1 on Austria’s public broadcaster ORF are, undisputedly, the news programmes ...

The launch of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has brought increased attention to AI in fields like science, media, and society. However, only a few studies have analysed how the public perceives ...

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 ...

History has shown us that where freedom of the press declines, democracy suffers. That is why press freedom has remained a burning issue for countries around the globe. And while the Federal ...

Olivia Samnick, MA Journalism, Media, and Communications, is a journalist based in Germany. Her work includes multimedia publications in Germany's leading news magazine SPIEGEL ONLINE, and the leading ...

War reporting is currently dominating many European newsrooms, but coverage has extended beyond the classic “war correspondent” sent to report first-hand from the war zone. Since Russia started ...

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 ...

Endless hours in front of the computer screen with only a short break for lunch in the kitchen a few metres away, then back to the grind until the sun goes down and you curl into bed, only to repeat ...

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 ...