Journalism Innovation in Democratic Societies

study systematizes communication science innovation research

read more

Journalism Innovation in Democratic Societies

Our project

Which journalism has a future and relevance? How do innovations in journalism influence journalistic quality and thus the public in democratic societies? Our research will identify, index and evaluate the most important innovations in journalism in each of the participating countries in the last decade until now. The project “Innovations in journalism in democratic societies: Index, influence and prerequisites in international comparison” started in October 2020. 19 researchers in five countries are involved.

read more

news

read more

Funding

Our project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 438677067, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) – Project I 4797-G – and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) – number 100019E_190126. The project “Innovations in journalism in democratic societies: Index, influence and prerequisites in international comparison” has a total volume of ca. 1.3 million Euro.