German Media and Coronavirus: Exceptional Communication—Or Just a Catalyst for Existing Tendencies?

Holger Wormer
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Holger Wormer: Department of Science Journalism, Institute and School of Journalism, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Media and Communication, 2020, vol. 8, issue 2, 467-470

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has immediate effects on science journalism and science communication in general, which in a few cases are atypical and likely to disappear again after the crisis. However, from a German perspective, there is some evidence that the crisis—and its accompanying ‘infodemic’—has, above all, accelerated and made more visible existing developments and deficits as well as an increased need for funding of science journalism.

Keywords: coronavirus; fake news; journalism funding; science communication; science journalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.17645/mac.v8i2.3242

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