9 March 2019 – New York City
The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for their 2019 conference.
2019 ECREA JOURNALISM STUDIES CONFERENCE IN VIENNA
14-15 February 2019 – Vienna, Austria
ECREA is hosting a Journalism Studies Conference in Vienna in 2019. The conference aims to explore media ecologies, coupled with shifts in public discourse, which are challenging received assumptions about journalism, and therefore also raising fundamental questions for journalism scholars.
EU CALL FOR PROPOSALS: FUNDING OF PROJECTS IN MALAYSIA
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Deadline: 24 January 2019
Call for proposals: Funding of projects in Malaysia. The thematic is about enhancing CSOs’ Contribution to Governance and Development Processes, notably through the media as key actor to promote good governance, transparency and accountability (Objective 2).
FOME SYMPOSIUM 2018 TO FOCUS ON MEDIA CAPTURE
22-23 November – Berlin, Germany
The 2018 FoME Symposium will address media capture, and to what extent this expanding strategy influences democracy, pluralism and freedom of the press and how to prevent “The Silent Takeover” of the free media.
GFMD WEBINAR: THE CHALLENGES OF APPLYING FOR EU FUNDING
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On Nov. 27 at 15:00 CET, GFMD will be hosting a members-only webinar focusing on the challenges of preparing EU funding proposals and, specifically, of responding to the EIDHR Global Call which was launched earlier this month. The webinar is the second instalment in GFMD’s Capacity Building Programme.
PRAGUE MEDIA POINT CONFERENCE: MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY, 2018
15 Nov – 17 Nov, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Media Point is a series of annual international conferences, dedicated to discussing the changing media landscape in a professional, political, economic, and social context. These events gather leading academics, journalists, media executives, and experts from around the world to exchange experiences, establish new relationships, and debate challenges facing both traditional and new media. The topic for this iteration of conference is Media and Technology: Innovative Journalism in a Contested Political Space.
5th INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA CONFERENCE 2018
27 Sept – 28 Sept, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The International Open Data Conference (IODC) is an event designed to bring the global open data community together in order to learn, share, plan and collaborate on the future of open data. The unique nature of this event is that it gathers together in one location a diverse range of participants from the northern and southern hemispheres to define strategies to advance open data both locally and globally.
ISO LOMSO FELLOWSHIP FOR EARLY-CAREER AFRICAN RESEARCHERS
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Deadline: 20 October
Applications for the Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers are now open. Iso Lomso fellowships provide an exceptional early career opportunity for Africa’s brightest minds in academia.
MDI SEEKS EXPERIENCED INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERTS
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Deadline: 31 October
The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) is looking for experienced international development experts to join our team of consultants for EC Framework Contract projects.
CALL FOR PAPERS: REPORTING GLOBAL WHILE BEING LOCAL
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A special issue of Journalism Studies titled “Reporting Global while being Local: Local sources of news for distant audiences” has launched a call for papers.
REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS – SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
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Deadline: Ongoing
The Social Media and Democracy Research Grant Program invites proposals that examine the impact of social media and related digital technologies on democracy and elections.
FNPI REPORT ON TRENDS THAT SHAPE DIGITAL AUDIENCE IN COLOMBIA
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The Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI) and the Journalism Studies Center in the University of Andes-Ceper produced a report identifying eight key factors that contribute to understanding the digital audience in Colombia.
REUTERS INSTITUTE DIGITAL NEWS REPORT 2018
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Discover why the sharp decline in use of social media for news gives rise to fresh distribution avenues; why low trust in news creates opportunities to develop loyalty with your audiences, and uncover which strategies are delivering sustainable online revenues.
MFWA STUDY ON MEDIA COVERAGE OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
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A new report from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) explores the level and quality of media coverage of governance issues in Senegal. Senegalese journalists and media outlets have a strong interest in issues related to corruption and accountability, yet there are very few investigative stories published.
JOURNALISM, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND PREDICTIONS 2018
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This will be a critical year for the relationship between publishers and platforms, as companies like Google and Facebook fight a rising tide of criticism about their impact on society – and on journalism. In this report Nic Newman looks ahead at the trends that will shape the news industry in 2018.
GIJN REPORTS ON BEST PRACTICES IN MEASURING IMPACT
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To assist both practitioners and supporters of investigative journalism, the authors examine a wide variety of views on how to measure the impact of investigative journalism quantitatively. They report that “the metrics available aren’t as straightforward as measuring audience or tracking website traffic”.
ARE JOURNALISTS KEEPING PACE WITH THE TECH REVOLUTION?
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In the recent webinar hosted by GFMD, panellists have shared their insights on how audience data can be used for project design, informing project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, and how it can be used by local news media. This exercise aimed to showcase current developments in the field of digital audience analytics.
REPORT ON MEDIA PLURALISM AND MEDIA FREEDOM IN THE EU
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On 27 March the EU Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the Report on media pluralism and media freedom in the EU. The report includes a motion for a European Parliament Resolution, which focuses on the relationship between media pluralism, freedom of expression and democracy in the digital age.
MEDIA DEVELOPMENT FUNDING UPDATE FROM CIMA
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“Tracking donor efforts to support media development is fundamental to assessing whether enough resources are being directed at these efforts, and whether those resources are being channeled to the areas of most pressing need”, writes Daniel O’Maley on www.cima.ned.org.
IMS STUDY DOCUMENTS BEST PRACTICES ON THE SAFETY OF JOURNALIST
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“Defending Journalism”, a new global study by International Media Support (IMS), analyses the efforts to safeguard journalists in seven countries where environments of conflict and instability challenges the ability of journalists to produce good, in-depth journalism.