The blurring line between freelance journalists and self-employed media workers [PDF]
This study uses the question, ‘what makes a freelancer specifically a journalist’ as a starting point for investigating the ways Australian freelance journalists experienced and managed precarious employment in COVID-19 impacted 2020. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 32 self-identified freelance journalists, we analyse the types of work they did,
Beate Josephi, Penny O’Donnell
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Socio-Demographic Portrait of a Freelance Journalist of the Digital Age [PDF]
In the era of digitalization and pandemic, freelancing is becoming an increasingly common lifestyle and way of earning money. At the same time, journalism is one of the most popular professions for freelance work. In the following, we analyzed the history of the beginning of the career and professional development of 204 freelance journalists in order ...
Mukhina, O. S., Мухина, О. С.
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Maintaining a Freelance Career: How Journalists Generate and Evaluate Freelance Work
This article examines how journalists generate and evaluate their freelance work to maintain their careers. Based on interviews with 52 Swedish freelancers, it illustrates how they respond to precarious working conditions.
Maria Norback
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Habermas the Freelance Journalist: The Relationship between Theory and Practice in Habermas’s Early Career [PDF]
Although Jürgen Habermas is one of postwar Europe’s leading philosophers and public intellectuals, the secondary literature often portrays him as an apolitical thinker with little interest in “real politics.” This article demonstrates that from the beginning of his career Habermas was an intensely political thinker, who tried to mediate his political ...
Peter J Verovšek
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Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics [PDF]
Several articles questioning the expertise, intentions and professional integrity of several researchers along with weaponized copyright infringement claims is the latest example of how scientists can become targets of so-called dark PR tactics.
Howard Wolinsky +2 more
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The controversy around anti-amyloid antibodies for treating Alzheimer’s disease [PDF]
The recent rejection of lecanemab by the European Medicines Agency despite its approval in other countries highlights the debate among researchers and regulatory bodies about the efficacy, safety, and underlying scientific basis of drugs to treat ...
Philip Hunter
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Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work [PDF]
The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ethical reasoning?
Ladendorf Martina
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Security challenges by AI-assisted protein design [PDF]
Scientists and security experts are concerned that the increasing power of AI-assisted protein design and synthesis could be abused by various actors for terrorist or criminal purposes.
Philip Hunter
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Exogestation for treating premature births and congenital diseases [PDF]
Exogestation has made considerable advances lately to the point that first therapeutic applications in human can be considered.
Philip Hunter
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Ancient wisdom and modern innovations: Methods of administering healing [PDF]
This issue of the Biomedical Journal highlights major advancements in drug delivery, including aptamer-functionalized liposomes and nanozymes. A new biomarker combination shows promise for improved diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Aila Akosua Kattner
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