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Project end in exchange with practitioners

Three years after the start of the international research project “Innovations in Journalism in Democratic Societies: Index, Influence and Preconditions in International Comparison” (“Join-DemoS”), the project has come to a worthy conclusion in Vienna. At the end of September, nearly 50 practitioners and project participants gathered in the Austrian capital for a joint closing event. […]

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All Case Studies in one view

The homepage has been updated to coincide with the end of the project: From now on, all the case studies examined can be viewed via the “Case Studies” tab. Within the sub-study II, a total of 100 pioneer projects that could be found in various innovative fields of journalism over the past years were examined […]

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Final Meeting in Vienna and Outlook

Three years after the start of the international research project “Innovations in Journalism in Democratic Societies: Index, Influence and Preconditions in International Comparison” the project is now coming to a close: On September 29, nearly 50 practitioners and researchers will meet in Vienna for a common concluding event. At the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the […]

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JoIn-DemoS-Meeting in Winterthur

The research project “Innovations in journalism in democratic societies: Index, influence and prerequisites in international comparison” (JoIn-DemoS) has taken another step towards the end of the project: From March 23 to 25, nearly 20 researchers from five countries met in Winterthur for the second-to-last joint workshop. JoIn-Demos started in October 2020 and is funded by […]

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JoIn-DemoS in Vienna

In mid-October, the JoIn-DemoS project was presented at the Masterclass of the fjum_forum für Journalismus und Medien, the Viennese training institution for journalists. After a general introduction to the project, the Spanish colleague José María Valero Pastor presented some case studies of the most important journalistic innovations of his country to the 18 participants from […]

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Project presentation at emma 2022 in Munich

Which innovations in journalism are related to the marketing of the journalistic offer? How were these innovations developed and what influence do they have on the media company? Maike Körner, Korbinian Klinghardt, José Maria Valero-Pastor, Renée Lugschitz, Giulia Ferri and Mirco Saner provided answers to these questions at emma 2022 in Munich. The three-day conference […]

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Technology and innovation: presentation of the Spanish JoIn-DemoS team at the University of Valencia

Félix Arias, researcher of the Spanish team of JoIn-DemoS, participated in the International Congress of the Spanish Journalistic Society (SEP) 2022, held between the 10th and 11th of June 2022 at the University of Valencia, where he presented the communication “Technology in journalistic innovation: the case of Spain“. A contribution derived from the work of […]

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JoIn-DemoS Meeting in Eichstätt 

1.5 years after the launch of the DFG research project “Journalism Innovation in Democratic Societies” (JoIn-DemoS), the international research team drew an interim conclusion in Eichstätt.  After the last meeting in November 2021 in Elche, Spain, the JoIn-DemoS research team was finally able to meet again in person. A total of 16 scientists met for […]

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Jo-In DemoS identifies the most important journalistic innovations of the last decade in Spain in an article published in ‘El Profesional de la Información’

The prestigious scientific journal ‘El Profesional de la Información’ publishes in its latest volume the article “Las innovaciones periodísticas más destacadas en España (2010-2020): características e impacto organizacional, industrial y social”, written by a group of researchers from the international project Jo-In DemoS (Journalistic Innovations in Democratic Societies). The research catalogues the innovations that have […]

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Ontological premises of Automated Journalism

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence and automation have become increasingly pervasive in newsrooms, and scholars have often stressed both the potential and the pitfalls of these technologies. The way news automation is understood by journalism experts and practitioners raises important ontological questions both about the impact of these technologies, but also about new […]

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Completed inventory of innovations presented

At the annual conference of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM) in Zurich, the Swiss team presented the completed international inventory of innovations in journalism and first comparative findings. During the innovation panel “Current Challenges” of the Journalism Research Group there was an opportunity to first go into more detail on the […]

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First meeting of the Jo-In DemoS project at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche

The researchers of the international project Join Demos (Journalistic Innovations in Democratic Societies) held a working meeting at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche on 11th and 12th November. Teams from the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany), led by Professor Klaus Meier; the Austrian Academic of Sciences (Austria), led by Professor Andy Kaltenbrunner; the Institute of […]

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