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Slovakia: Human Assisted Content Analysis of the print press coverage of corruption

How did Slovakian newspapers select, cover and portray corruption-related issues? The research findings of ANTICORRP, a project funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme

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Mapping Digital Media: Slovakia

A report by the Open Society Foundation examines how digital changes affect the media system of Slovakia

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“News you don’t believe”: Audience perspectives on fake news

While a narrow definition of the term “fake news” deals with fabricated news reports, audiences use the same expression in a more broad meaning. RISJ’s Factsheet aims at contributing to the discussion on fake news from the point of view of “ordinary people”

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017

The 2017 edition of the Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute, the most comprehensive ongoing comparative study of news consumption in the world, focuses on the issues of trust in the era of fake news, changing business models and the role of platforms

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Worlds of Journalism Study

The Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) assesses the state of journalism on a global scale, collecting perceptions on the working conditions and the limitations under which journalists operate

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Media quality, media trust: a comparative perspective

Trust in the media is important not only for news organizations but also for society at large. Data collected by FÖG in the German language report “Qualität der Medien. Medienvertrauen – eine vergleichende Perspektive” shows the factors shaping media trust

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Media manipulation and disinformation online

The report “Media manipulation and disinformation online” explores how Internet subcultures and radicalised groups, including far-right activists in the United States, exploit web opportunities to influence the mainstream media agenda

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Chiara Sighele: Creating transnational networks for media freedom

10/07/2017

This short video presents the contribution of Chiara Sighele - project manager of the project European Centre for Press and Media Freedom at Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) - in the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017).