Journalists are the first line of defense against disinformation and fake news. But we still know little about the kind of strategies that European journalists use to address fake news. In this report Jacopo Custodi, me and Hans-Jörg Trenz use interviews with journalists to answer this question.

Maxilian Conrad from @haskoliislands.bsky.social (and the PI of RECLAIM, that I’ve worked on for three years) with interesting thoughts on what «post-truth» actually is and what we can do about it. @tepsa.bsky.social

People have a lot of opinions about how to fix the "fake news epidemic". One solution is to strengthen traditional journalism. But what exactly do people want from news?

Check the video below or read our paper for one answer: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

With #EUSA2025 officially over, I wanna thank everyone that I served on panels with (like @aseimel.bsky.social) and those who discussed my papers (shoutout to @siennanordquist.bsky.social among others) for helping make my work even better. I look forward to seeing everyone again in 2027!

I am looking forward to discussing the paper with among others @theresakuhn.bsky.social, @aseimel.bsky.social and @huysmans.bsky.social.

Does this sound interesting? You can check out the most recent pre-print (version 2) of the paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Are you heading to @eustudies.bsky.social in Philly next week? I would love to see you at the panel "Public preferences and identity formation" in Whistler B on Friday between 2-3.30pm. I will present a paper finding that EU austerity weakened EU identification to a substantial degree.

At #EUSA25 in Philly next week and want to make one last panel before Thursday night dinner? Come check out our paper applying economic voting theory to single market attitudes in both the EU and the US. The panel is in Wyeth A at 3.45 - 5.15pm! Look forward to seeing you there.

Our paper may interest @tepsa.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @olgaeisele.bsky.social, @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social, @efjeurope.bsky.social and @unioslo-arena.bsky.social.

This suggests that there is no real disconnect between supporting popular journalism and the kind of journalism that strengthens the public sphere: People want the kind of journalism that is also best suited to combat the presence of disinformation in the public sphere.

Our paper suggests that even in a time where journalism is under unprecedented threat, there may be little reason to rethink what it should do: Even as technology is changing, readers have very traditional views of what journalism should do.

We also show that views of the importance of objectivity vary very little across our three sample countries (Italy, Norway and Poland) even as journalism has been threatened to very different degrees in the three countries.

In the paper, co-written with Hans-Jörg Trenz and Jacopo Custodi, we show that people have complex views on what journalism should be. However, they remain committed to very traditional views of what journalism should be.

I am very pleased to share that my recent paper, "Reinforcing or Rethinking Journalism" was recently published by @cogitatiomac.bsky.social. You can read the paper (OA) here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

I have been fortunate enough to spend the last two days at @delorsberlin.bsky.social discussing EU competences and national control as a part of the “Reconfiguring Europe” program. Excited to see what colleagues like @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social and @anabobic.bsky.social are working on.

If anyone has any questions about the job, and what it entails, feel free to reach out. Please share the ad widely!

Are you, or do you know, an MA student in #polisci or a related field in #Berlin? Together with Markus Jachtenfuchs I am hiring a part-time student assistant for @delorsberlin.bsky.social project "Reconfiguring Europe". Read more and apply here: hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

I definitely have to think three times every time I write the word bureaucrat. Almost makes me rethink my recent turn towards studying the political attitudes of, you guessed it, bureaucrats...

The paper might be of interest to @dschraff.bsky.social, @theresakuhn.bsky.social, @aseimel.bsky.social and others interested in how the policies of international organizations shape individual-level attitudes towards both the institutions themselves and nation-states.

I am looking forward to presenting my new paper (coming soon to a pre-print server near you) on the linkages between austerity and identity as a part of the @delorsberlin.bsky.social European Governance Colloquium tomorrow. If you're interested but not in Berlin, the talk is streamed via Teams.

Many congrats on the paper (which I just finished reading). It is a solid piece, both methodologically and theoretically!

Congrats! Looking forward to digging into the paper. :)

I've been fortunate to spend the last couple of years thinking about how #politics, #journalism and #posttruth interact. In this short explainer I give my take on why quality journalism, and traditional media, are still vital even as the news cycle becomes quicker and quicker.

Really pleased to share that I have taken up a post as a postdoc at @hertieschool.bsky.social and @delorsberlin.bsky.social. For the next three years I will be working on collecting historical data on EU resources: www.delorscentre.eu/en/team/prof...