The question which author has written a certain text has been around since people have started to put their ideas and thoughts into writing. Recent advancements in statistics and the capabilities of powerful machine learning algorithms have created a research field which is known as authorship attribution. …

In this report Piet Bakker, professor of Cross Media Content, mapped the state of the media in the Netherlands.

In dit rapport worden de Nederlandse resultaten van The Worlds of Journalism Study gepresenteerd. Dit internationale onderzoek bestaat sinds 2010 en vindt om de zes jaar plaats. Het doel is om onderzoekers, mediabeoefenaars en beleidsmakers te helpen begrijpen welke verschuivingen plaatsvinden in de …

The fifth book in the Ebifananyi series is based on the memoirs and slide collection of Engineer Martin Wangutusi Wambwa (b. 1928). He is one of the first western trained Ugandan engineers. Journalism and photography would have been his second vocational choice, had his engineering ambitions not worked …

In January 2016, several newspapers reported on the sexual assault of women at Dom Square in Cologne. The aim of this study was to find out, whether the sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne in 2015 were the result of facts or framing. The scope of this research is based on 87 letters to the editor, …

Environmental journalism is een tak van de journalistiek die nog maar weinig bekendheid geniet in Nederland. Daardoor is er ook nog weinig onderzoek naar gedaan. Op dit moment is het klimaatprobleem groter dan ooit en is de rol van de journalist die uitleg, duiding en context biedt erg belangrijk. Het …

The third book of the Ebifananyi series, Ebishushani III – All the Tricks, delves into the life of Elly Rwakoma who ran photostudio studio and was a presidential photographer as well as a social worker and a businessman. Ebishushani III takes of from one particular image that, due to various circumstances, …

Entrepreneurial Journalism is gaining in interest, first in the United States, but now also increasingly in Europe and in the Netherlands. This can be explained by a combination of factors. Firstly, reorganisations and substantial lay-offs in recent years at news publishers, especially of regional newspapers, …

In 1999 werden de gratis kranten Metro en Spits in Nederland gelanceerd. Behalve die twee titels werden ook zes andere gratis dagbladen in Nederland gestart tussen 2000 en 2008. In 2007 bereikte de totale gratis oplage een hoogtepunt van bijna twee miljoen per dag. In dit artikel wordt de geschiedenis …

Self-regulation in the Netherlands: Journalists opening up to a more demanding public. In: The Trust factor report on self-regulation 2015