European Journalism Observatory

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The European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is a non-profit media research institute founded in spring 2004 at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano . The core tasks of the institute include “comparative journalism research and research transfer”.

tasks

According to its own claim, the institute observes “trends in journalism and the media industry and compares journalism cultures in Europe and the USA.” In this way, it wants to make a contribution to quality assurance in journalism. The publication of research results in the field of the media as well as researching "best practices" in journalism not least serve to promote freedom of the press .

Originally, the EJO's publications were published in German, English and Italian. With the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation , activities in the direction of Eastern Europe could be expanded. The EJO is now a constantly developing network of research institutes in the following 14 countries: Albania, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Tunisia, Ukraine, Hungary and the USA. Each EJO partner decides independently for his language version which topics are relevant for his audience and which EJO contributions are translated. The German EJO editorial team is at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Awards

In 2005 the EJO received the renowned “Media Award” from the Swiss Association for Quality in Journalism.

In 2019 the EJO received the Günter Wallraff Prize for journalism criticism .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freimut Duve (ed.), Mission statement independence. To ensure journalistic responsibility , Konstanz 2004, p. 121.
  2. ↑ a b Das EJO , ejo-online.de (accessed on June 14, 2019).
  3. ^ L'Osservatorio europeo di giornalismo parla le lingue dell'est , tio.ch, October 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Marc Höchli, The Invisible Scissors. Media Freedom and Censorship in Switzerland , Bern [u. a.] 2010, p. 154.
  5. ^ Wallraff Prize for Raif Badawi , zdf.de, June 12, 2019.

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