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Libya's Desert Rebellion: The Lessons of World War II
The whipping sandstorms, low visibility, and stray camels make the five-hour car ride from Benghazi to the oil refinery town of Ras Lanuf a tense one even in normal times. But these days there is nothing normal going on in Ras...read more ›
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Collaboration as the Future of News Generation and Distribution
Munthe’s main thesis was that the era of ever closer collaboration between mainstream media and citizen journalism is imminent. According to him, “Journalism by the normals/nomads (citizen journalists) is an unstoppable trend...read more ›
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Nielsen lectures in Porto
On February 28 and March 1, Reuters Institute Research Fellow Rasmus Kleis Nielsen delivered two lectures to students and faculty of the Centro de Estudos das Tecnologias e Ciências da Comunicação at the University of Porto....read more ›
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In the public interest: leaking and whistle-blowing from the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks
Duncan Campbell compared the Wikileaks phenomenon to three famous cases of leakers in the past: Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Philip Agee, who exposed the names of CIA agents working in London, and Mordechai...read more ›
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Passage to Benghazi
There's a not-so secret password that gets foreign journalists coming from Egypt into Libya through customs and immigration without showing passports and through the neighborhood militia checkpoints on the coastal road from...read more ›
Media Fragmentation: The end of liberal journalism?
Paolo Mancini believes that media fragmentation openly threatens the very basic tenets of journalism, namely neutrality and objectivity. According to Mancini, for a society increasingly fragmented in its choice, the morning...read more ›
The crisis facing the business models of print media around the world
"Journalistic organizations need to stop making a product for a world that no longer exists”, argued Professor Robert Picard at a recent RISJ seminar on the crisis of the business of journalism. read more ›
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Fellows' papers now online
Dmitry Denisov (Russia), Judith Högerl (Austria) and Abiye Megenta (Ethiopia) have recently finished their Fellowship papers, which are now available on the RISJ website.read more ›
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Is the internet a solution for the revolution?
Evgeny Morozov participated in the Reuters Institute Seminar just after the so-called Tunisian Jasmine revolution, but just before the uprising in Egypt had started. In his book ‘The Net Delusion’, Morozov argues that internet...read more ›
Politics, Performance and Rhetoric – the 2010 Prime Ministerial Debates
“The 2010 prime ministerial debates reached parts of the electorate that have been hitherto most excluded from our electoral democracy.” This was the central point of Professor Stephen Coleman’s presentation on February 7, 2011,...read more ›