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I've come to Norham Gardens, down a side street off of Banbury Road to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism  to meet  Rasmus Kleis Nielsen , the new Director of Research at the Institute.

The University of Chicago has appointed James Robinson, a renowned political scientist and economist and an expert on Africa and Latin America, as University Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy.

Engel, a veteran war correspondent and Stanford alumnus who has covered international events for nearly two decades, will deliver the 124th Commencement address.

More than 60,000 people have explored their political options through Vote Compass, a joint project by the ABC, Vox Pop Labs and the University of Queensland. Vote Compass is an online democratic engagement tool that allows people to work out where their views sit on the political spectrum and in relationship to the major political parties.

By analyzing data on multilingual Twitter users and Wikipedia editors and on 30 years' worth of book translations in 150 countries, researchers at MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, an

Current Indonesian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), His Excellency (H. E. Dr Desra Percaya has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham, UK.

The Jaws Effect: biting review finds shark policy based on movie myths 9 December 2014 The film Jaws has heavily influenced Western Australia's stance on sharks, a review of over a decade of state government policy has found.

In 2007, a treasure hunting company found a 19th Century shipwreck in the Atlantic, off the coast of Portugal.

By Andrew Thorpe. From reporting on US President Barack Obama's landmark Brisbane address to analysing politics at the International Media Centre, University of Queensland journalism and students had all angles of the G20 covered.

A study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism researcher has found that children who watch television shows with action or violence are more susceptible to messages in the advertisements shown during the programs. Eunji Cho, a graduate student in UW-Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication , says the excitement of a violent show causes children to be focused and attentive, an effect that carries over to commercial breaks.

"Epidemiology is about connecting people's stories and finding patterns in diseases. Journalism is the same," says Dr. Seema Yasmin Since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa began, numerous commentators have appeared on television news shows to discuss the disease and its implications.

At the front of the classroom, Columbia Journalism School Professor Judith Matloff clicked through a somber slideshow of 15 journalists killed, assaulted or seriously injured while doing their jobs.

Michael McFaul, a Stanford political scientist and former U.S. ambassador to Russia, has been selected as the next director of the university's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Stanford University is investigating the facts behind an academic research study independently undertaken by political science researchers at Stanford and Dartmouth that involved election mailers sent to voters. As it investigates, Stanford is also cooperating with an inquiry undertaken by election officials in the State of Montana.

A new report by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism says news desks believe their audiences have found stories about Brussels too boring and technical in the past. However, most Brussels-based reporters believe that a more divided parliament, with one third of the MPs representing Eurosceptic parties of various kinds, has created the drama to make parliament easier to cover.

With the parting of a leopard-print curtain and the flash of cameras, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation officially opened Sept.

University of Washington Posted under: Administrative Affairs , Education , Politics and Government , Research , UW and the Community The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington has announced the creation of a new International Policy Institute.

MPs who take comfort in the old adage that while people don't like politicians, they do like their own MP, may have to think again, according to new research from the British Election Study (BES).

It's time to put pollsters under the spotlight. Prior to the election, the prevailing view of the news media was that Hillary Clinton would win.

A Cardiff-led research team is gearing up to deliver the UK's first conference on Creative Citizenship.

An international relations expert at Plymouth University has been invited to address a United Nations conference on security issues in Central Asia.

Book on 'political self-sacrifice' wins 2014 Sussex International Theory Prize A book on forms of 'political self-sacrifice' - from suicide bombings to civil disobedience - is this year's winner of an annual prize awarded by the University's Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT).

The motives, strategy and endgame of Russia’s involvement in the escalating crisis in Ukraine is set to be the focus of a professorial lecture at Plymouth University this month.

Reports that The University of Queensland is considering "dumping its journalism degree" are incorrect.

Reports that The University of Queensland is considering "dumping its journalism degree" are incorrect.

The space pavilion will feature the wealth of ESA and German national programmes across all space domains, focusing on recent mission results and upcoming launches.

ANN ARBOR-About a third of India's electricity is lost each year. It just never gets billed. Some is stolen or disappears because of technical problems. It's enough power to light up all of Italy for a year. The problem gets especially bad during elections when electricity is used to win votes, a new University of Michigan study shows.

University of Washington Doug Underwood is a University of Washington professor of communication. He answered a few questions about his latest book, " The Undeclared War between Fiction and Journalism: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History. Q: What is the concept behind this book, and the meaning of its intriguing title? A: The book is about journalist-literary figures who have written both fiction and nonfiction, which have been in competition in the Western writing world since the beginnings of the modern newspaper and the modern novel in the 18th century.

As world leaders gathered in Kigali last week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, Adama Dieng, the United Nations secretary-general's special adviser for the prevention of genocide, reflected on the tragedy in a roundtable discussion on campus April 18.

Deep into a bloody history With support from Scholars at Risk, journalist probes Cambodia's killing fields T his story could be three words long: Watch this film.

For months the crisis in Ukraine has left the media scrambling to explain newsworthy developments that seem to unfold on a daily if not hourly basis.

Sovereignty implies the inalienable right of a country to protect itself, former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy told University of Toronto students and staff at an international relations panel April 1.

Sovereignty implies the inalienable right of a country to protect itself, former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy told University of Toronto students and staff at an international relations panel April 1.

In celebration of a landmark gift to the campus by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is exhibiting never-before-displayed phot

A globally renowned foreign policy, human rights and international relations scholar this week begins his new role as Executive Dean of UQ's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS).

A play originally written for Lancaster University's 25th anniversary is being revived for the 50th.

Quality standards in the sciences have recently been heavily criticised in the academic community and the mass media.

American voters are pointedly asked during every presidential campaign if they are better off today than four years ago.

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games are a prime target for terrorism, say Stanford scholars. The proximity and intensity of the neighboring Chechen separatist threat as well as the Russian handling of the security issue are heightening fears about possible attacks.

The complex political and psychological barriers which often need to be overcome in peace negotiations are to be explored in a public debate at Plymouth University.