M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

Around twelve percent of the adult population in Germany has limited literacy skills. This study explores the potential and the challenges of journalistic content presented in Easy and Plain Language – linguistic varieties designed to lower...

Gender research is an important yet comparatively small area within communication science. In relation to journalism, it has primarily focused on examining gender-based similarities and differences among communicators, media coverage, and historical...

News media in many Western countries face significant challenges due to declining interest in news, decreasing media trust, and audiences’ stagnant willingness to pay for news. It remains an open question whether a different, still relatively...

This interdisciplinary contribution focuses on the identification, systematization, and critical discussion of measures to counter (visual) hate in online environments. The study follows a two-stage approach: first, it synthesizes empirical insights...

Providing people with reliable information so that they can form their own opinions, offering them a forum for discussing issues of societal concern, and critically scrutinizing those in power: these are the features that make journalism...