Trust in Ethical Journalism. The Key to Media Features - Manuals

This issue of Ethics in the News looks at how the communications revolution is continuing to pose more questions than answers over a public crisis of confidence, both in democracy and in sources of public information

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 - HTML5 video

This short video presents the main findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 which reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 74,000 online news consumers in 37 countries, including many European countries

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 - Reports

This study explores the ways news is being consumed in a range of countries. This year's report focuses on the issues of trust and misinformation, media literacy, new online business models, the impact of changing Facebook algorithms and the rise of new platforms and messaging apps

Global Council To Build Trust in Media and Fight Misinformation - Stakeholders

The Global Council To Build Trust in Media and Fight Misinformation (GC2FM) is a global initiative aiming at facilitating and actioning realistic, practical and workable solutions to the problem of misinformation. The Council will unite and focus on this issue through four key areas based on the core needs identified during the framing process: first, the creation of a repository of resources and initiatives in the fight of misinformation: second, the creation of a network of individuals, organisations and initiatives; third, foster innovation in order to identify workable solutions; forth, stimulate the industry to speak with a unified voice.

The framing committee of the Global Council is composed by: the Ethical Journalism Network, the European Broadcasting Union, the Global Editors Network, the Global Forum for Media Development, the Online News Association, and WAN-IFRA/World Editor’s Forum.

The Council was launched in April 2018.

Mediated Personalization of Executive European Union Politics - Academic Sources

A piece of automated content analysis on a corpus of articles covering the European Commission from 1992 to 2016

Encryption and Anonymity follow-up report - Reports

After three years, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye authored an update to the 2015 Report on Encryption and Anonymity, addressing trends in state restrictions and the role of corporations

Digital News Report 2018 - Turkey Supplementary Report - Reports

This study is based on the analysis of data collected as part of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018. Based on the responses given by 2019 people from urban contexts of different parts of the country, it provides an overview of the media landscape in Turkey in 2018

Romania - Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 - Reports

The article aims to explore the changing environment around news in Romania, focusing mainly on television as the main source of information as well as on the increasingly-used mobile phone

Online Module: Inclusion through media - Reports

These resources and case studies look at the role and responsibilities of media, civil society, and institutions in enabling (or hindering) empowerment and participation of all members of society

Tackling fake news, the Italian way - Legal Resources

As measures against fake news are widely debated across Europe, the protocol adopted by the Italian Interior Ministry on the eve of political elections, enabling the Postal Police to fact-check and report contents, has caused concern in the public debate