Einar Thorsen of Bournemouth University, UK, was one of the final presenters at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. He looked at how the relationship between BBC online journalism and ctizenship during the 2005 and 2010 UK General Elections. In a quick presentation, Thorsen explained how civic engagement as a key of the BBC mandate reflected in its election coverage online. For the 2010 election, the BBC viewed election news as a

On Wednesday 21 July, I’ll be talking at the IAMCR conference in Braga about our integrated journalism programme at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia. Here are my slides: Lessons from integrated approach to journalism education View more presentations from Alfred Hermida

Henrik Ornebring of University of Oxford gave a quick overview of his six-nation comparative study of the skills of journalists at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. This is a three-year project, running from 2007 to 2010 and covering six countries: UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland and Estonia. Ornebring conducted a non-representative online survey with 2,200 respondents and a response rate of 4.3%. He also conducted qualitative research with 62 interviews

I am at the IAMCR conference in Braga this week and plan to blog about the latest in journalism research. In a session on journalism and innovation, David Nordfors of Stanford University raised questions about journalism’s ability to cover innovation and its relationship to society and democracy. Nordfors framed innovation journalism as a field of journalism in which we study to cover innovation He argued that innovation was about technology, business