englischFor recipients to be able to use journalistic content to form opinions and make decisions, a certain amount of trust is essential. At the same time, every act of trust involves taking risks. Therefore, this book focuses on the relationship between journalism, trust and risk. In order to [...]

englischThe threat to and restrictions placed on the freedom of the press are two of the most pressing current political concerns. It is not only the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, the arrest and imprisonment of Deniz Yücel, and the attacks on the media by heads of state such as Erdogan or Trump [...]

englischThe digitalisation of media markets is calling the legitimacy of public broadcasting into question. Willingness to pay a licence fee is declining, and young people hardly use radio and television anymore. How is ARD responding to these challenges? In this study, Henning Eichler examines [...]

englischTrust, distrust and trust issues are often objects of journalistic coverage. However, little is known about the journalistic depiction of the three dimensions of trust. Using a longitudinal analysis, this study is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic investigation into their [...]

englischHow do local journalists perceive the PR of local businesses and how are they influenced by it? This study uses guided interviews with local German journalists to explore the role of PR in local business news. It reveals a wide variety of common practices in different editorial offices. In [...]

englisch25 years after the project of peace journalism was launched, the author of this book takes stock of what theoretical, empirical and experimental research and development have achieved since then, and how peace journalism itself has developed further: from an alternative to the propaganda [...]

englischBe it Brexit, the Eurozone crisis or the degree of a banana’s curviness–we are affected by EU issues every day. The most important source of information about these issues are journalistic media. However, little is known about the anonymous news producers, that is, news agencies. In this [...]

englischDaily newspapers are considered to have been the big losers in the media revolution. Their coverage has been declining for many years and their traditional revenue models no longer work. This study, which was carried out in cooperation with the publishing house and editorial staff of the [...]

englischThis volume is an up-to-date assessment of the current state of journalism research. The authors are acknowledged experts in the fields of research whose central questions, theories and results they present in a compact form. They also develop perspectives for future research. In doing so, [...]

englischIn light of pressures brought to bear by the Internet, it is becoming increasingly necessary for journalists to be able to point out specific criteria for demarcating their work against citizen journalists. An online experiment among German journalists and non-journalists investigates the [...]