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The domestication of data journalism in Palestine: Consumption of data-based news stories via social media Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Shadi Abu-Ayyash, Hussein AlAhmad, Elias Kukali
Data journalism (DJ) stands out as a distinguished contemporary form of news storytelling in which data are simplified and communicated via visuals. It can disseminate knowledge on complex phenomena and contribute to the advancement of journalism. Understanding the motives of readers’ DJ consumption is vital to the understanding of three focal elements in the journalism equation: society, journalists
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How journalism adapted the Internet in Germany: Results of six newsroom surveys (1997–2014) Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Christoph Neuberger
Based on six newsroom surveys, this article analyzes the history of digital German journalism. The surveys cover a period of 17 years (1997–2014). Periodizing the history of digital journalism into three phases, this article considers the interplay between journalism and journalism research. The results show how journalistic digital media define their role in the relationships between old media and
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Different yet complementary: A systematic literature review on data journalism in visualization research and journalism studies Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Francesca Morini
This article surveys and compares literature on data journalism from two areas of inquiry: journalism studies and visualization research. As digital interfaces become an important access point for news, journalism and visualization scholars have begun to share a common research interest: data journalism. Given their radically different traditions and histories, these areas follow very different rules
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Digital reputation indicator: A webometric approach for a global ranking of digital media Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Magdalena Trillo-Domínguez, Ramón Salaverría, Lluís Codina, Félix De Moya-Anegón
In this article we present the Digital Reputation Indicator (DRI), an innovative methodological tool that allows evaluating and comparing the reputation of digital news media on a global scale. In use since January 2023 by SCImago Media Rankings ( scimagomedia.com ), DRI is a composite assessment and measurement instrument that weighs web metrics originating from trusted, stable, and globally accessible
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Book review: The Routledge companion to freedom of expression and censorship Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tom Bradshaw
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Book review: News across five continents: Newspaper language in the context of regional and functional variation Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Yuting Jian, Xiaoqin Wu
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Going meta: Interaction at the normative boundaries of the news interview Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ian Hutchby
In the modern hybrid media landscape, the relations between journalists and politicians in arenas such as the broadcast news interview can seem less stable. Politicians and their advisors seem increasingly confident in identifying when and how to engage with political interviewers while journalists, in response, feel under pressure to intensify their role as scrutineering tribunes of the people. In
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Producing indefinite drafts of history: Journalists’ roles in historic revisionism in Europe and beyond Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Abit Hoxha, Kenneth Andresen, Panagiotis Paschalidis, Anke Fiedler
This paper seeks to explore to what degree revisionism and journalism interact in a European context. By looking at countries with troubled pasts, such as Greece and Spain, which are well into the European Union and also the euro-public sphere, and Kosovo, which uses European Integration as a framework to deal with its conflicting past, we aim to answer the crucial questions of what historical revisionism
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‘Thanks for being here with us’: Para-social interaction and the effects of pundit talk on the Hannity and Maddow shows Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Andrea McDonnell, Adam Silver
Contemporary American television news centers pundits as key voices in national political discourse. The most prominent pundits anchor their own programs, often during primetime hours, reaching large audiences . This paper analyzes pundits’ performance of a type of news talk that is designed to appear unscripted and therefore authentic, enhancing parasocial interaction (PSI) with viewers and affirming
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Visual representations of community in scholastic photojournalism: A thematic analysis of award-winning photographs from the national scholastic press association’s photo of the year contest Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Leslie Klein
While journalism awards can enhance social capital and signify quality, they often reinforce a limited, negative perspective of what is newsworthy. This study builds on existing research examining award-winning photojournalism by focusing on the understudied population of student photojournalists. Via a qualitative analysis of 229 photographs from the National Scholastic Press Association’s Photo of
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Who controls ‘the narrative’? journalistic emplotment and political discourse in the networked public sphere Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Paul Dawson
Over the last decade there has been a massive spike in use of the word ‘narrative’ in both media reportage and political discourse. This essay interrogates the rhetorical function and theoretical assumptions of this widespread usage, arguing that narrative rhetoric operates as a form of metajournalistic discourse shaping coverage of domestic politics and international relations while revealing an anxiety
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But whose harm? Towards the ethics of participatory advocacy journalism with unhoused populations Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Vojtěch Dvořák
Maximalist forms of media participation bring about innovative ways to empower people who experience homelessness while also holding the potential to challenge common stereotypes and media narratives related to homelessness. This paper is part of a broader research focused on developing media participation opportunities for unhoused populations. Its objective is to examine and discuss the compatibility
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Social media posts as source for political news coverage inside and outside election campaigns: Examining effects on deliberative news media quality Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Corinna Oschatz, Teresa Gil-Lopez, Dylan Paltra, Sebastian Stier, Tanjev Schultz
Journalists increasingly cite and/or embed social media posts in news articles. While social media posts have been found to be of little deliberative quality, we do not know whether this also affects the deliberative quality of the news. Against the background of a hybrid media system and deliberative news media standards, we answer this research question with a content analysis of news articles including
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Syrians in Turkey and their naturalization as Turkish citizens: A computational text analysis of newspaper data Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Elçin Istif Inci, Dirk Speelman
Following the civil war in Syria in 2011, migration from Syria in massive numbers has caused various political, demographic, societal, and cultural challenges in Turkey. The focus of this research is on how the issue of naturalization of Syrians as Turkish citizens has been presented in Turkish newspapers and to what extent the dominant perspective on the issue has shifted over time. For our computational
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Using formulations to maximize differences of opinion during televised climate change panel interviews Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Søren Beck Nielsen
This paper discusses climate journalistic issues of polarization and ‘false balance’ based upon a study of Danish public service television panel interviews in which participants debate climate change politics. More specifically, the study uses Conversation Analysis to examine the host’s use of formulations. Formulations refer to utterances designed to give the gist (or its ‘natural’ upshots) of a
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The podcast in the consumption agenda of Colombian digital users Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Andrés Barrios-Rubio, Juan Felipe Reyes Espitia
The proliferation of smartphones as the hub of consumption through screen devices has created a fresh path for accessing information, entertainment, and musical content. The digital ecosystem is revitalizing sound, and users are venturing into narratives and alternative formats that grab their attention and shape a content regimen that defines their sonosphere. This study centers on assessing audience
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‘Softballs’ for ‘Hardballs’: The congenial political interview on right-wing partisan TV news outlets Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Marianna Patrona
Taking a conversation-analytic approach, this article examines potentially shifting norms of political interviewing against the surge of authoritarian populism and increasingly legitimated forms of political and discursive bias on affiliated partisan TV outlets. Based on four political interviews of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon on Fox News and GB News, the analysis documents changes in interviewing
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To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Thijs van Dooremalen, Jan Willem Duyvendak
While the domestication literature indicates how national media link foreign events to a country’s domestic affairs, it has thus far only examined modes of domestication - the ways through which these links are created. In this article, we introduce a different dimension of the phenomenon: degrees of domestication. This includes the extents to which a foreign event gets connected with the domestic
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Politicization of fake news debates and citizen attitudes towards fake news and its regulation Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ki Deuk Hyun, Mihye Seo, Gunho Lee
As fake news becomes a pressing social concern, governments from many countries have considered legislation against fake news. This study examined how citizens formed opinions about fake news and an anti-fake news bill in South Korea where political elites provide polarized discourse regarding fake news and associated regulatory politics. Progressive leaders more intensely criticized fake news and
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The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Claudia Mellado, Daniel C. Hallin, Nicole Blanchett, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Daniel Jackson, Agnieszka Stępińska, Terje Skjerdal, Marju Himma, Karen McIntyre, Lutz M. Hagen, Pauline Amiel, Yasser Abuali, Nagwa Fahmy, Sandrine Boudana, Yi-Ning Katherine Chen, Sergey Davidov, Mariana De Maio, Maximiliano Frías Vázquez, Miguel Garcés, María Luisa Humanes, Petra Herczeg, Misook Lee, Christi I-Hsuan Lin
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual
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Audience engagement in data-driven journalism: Patterns in participatory practices across 34 countries Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jason A Martin, Lindita Camaj, Gerry Lanosga
This study explores what motivates data journalists to engage with audiences and their strategies for incorporating audiences into their work. Building on scholarship on audience engagement and participatory journalism, we investigate how data journalists perceive the role of audience; the stage of the reporting process at which the audience is engaged; and how optimistically or sceptically data journalists
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The impact of using person-centered language to reference stigmatized groups in news coverage Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Caroline Murray, Anita Varma, Natalie Jomini Stroud
News coverage often uses stigmatizing language to label marginalized groups. Person-centered language has been discussed as a potential remedy, which this study tests for the first time. Using a between-subjects experiment with members of three marginalized groups ( n = 339), we investigate whether news articles that use person-centered terms (e.g., “person with substance use disorder”) instead of
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Local journalism and its audience Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Lene Heiselberg, David Nicolas Hopmann
Local media outlets are merging, cutting jobs, or closing, due to a loss in audiences and in advertising revenues in an era of digitalization of information environments. This development raises the question how local media outlets can respond to the ongoing digitalization of information environments to retain or even regain audiences and, hereby, their attractiveness for advertisers. This study uses
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Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Adeola Abdulateef Elega, Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos, Lucia Mesquita
Data journalism is increasingly vital in our data-driven society, requiring professionals to gather, analyze, and visualize data for public understanding. While scholars recognize its significance, the audience-centric aspects remain underexplored. This study focuses on Eco-Nai+, a digital geo-journalism platform aiming to be Nigeria’s first. It provides interactive data access via web and mobile apps
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Noticed and appreciated? The role of argument diversity in enhancing news credibility and reader satisfaction Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Thomas Zerback, Pascal Schneiders
Although viewpoint diversity is a key value for audiences, journalism and media policy, not much is known about how audiences process and evaluate it. This is critical because any positive effect we might expect from a broad range of views (e.g., on opinion formation) requires that recipients recognize and appreciate it as a part of news content. The current study examines how news readers process
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What is populism anyway? Newspaper representations of populism in Spain and Italy between emptiness and political partisanship Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Carlo Berti, Arantxa Capdevila, Carlota M. Moragas-Fernández
The rise of populism in Europe has been accompanied by increasing use of the term in the media. This has been studied in the European press from the democratic corporatist or liberal media systems, but there is a lack of studies on southern Europe and the polarized pluralist media system. Using a content analysis of newspaper articles, we investigate the journalistic construction of populism in Spain
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The epistemic injustice in conflict reporting: Reporters and ‘fixers’ covering Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Johana Kotišová
This paper investigates the epistemic injustice in conflict reporting, where foreign parachute reporters collaborate with local producers and ‘fixers.’ Drawing from existing research on ‘fixers’ an...
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On society’s reachability, representability, and ability for dialogue: Exploring the interrelation between journalism and social cohesion Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Julius Reimer, Verena Albert, Wiebke Loosen
In politics and academia, but also in the broader public, there has been wide discussion concerning a sense of dwindling social cohesion most markedly in liberal democracies. One of the virulent qu...
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Solving journalism with data: Silicon Valley’s influence on the Fourth Estate Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Nadja Schaetz, Laura Laugwitz, Juliane A Lischka
The historically ambiguous relationship between journalism and Big Tech can be traced back to the late 20th century, when news organizations started to recognize the potential of the Internet as a ...
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Labouring the news: Management control strategies and work intensification in the digital newsroom Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Kathryn Hayes, Michelle O' Sullivan
Using a labour process lens, this research focuses on the structured antagonism that characterises the employment relationship. This article seeks to further our understanding of how news organisat...
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Social media news editors as journalists or marketeers: Who are they and how do they identify themselves? Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Michaël Opgenhaffen, Jonathan Hendrickx
Social media editors (SMEs) have become fixtures in contemporary newsrooms as part of designated social media teams. A growing body of scholarship has explored their daily work routines and how the...
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Covering inclusion: Frames, themes, and voice in news about LGBTI topics Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Emma Verhoeven, Steve Paulussen, Alexander Dhoest
This article investigates how LGBTI topics are framed in the news and who is given a voice in this coverage by analysing the Dutch-speaking Belgian press. An inductive framing analysis and quantita...
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Be cautious or be cancelled: News audience’s motivations not to participate in online journalism Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Nadia Mentzel, Mijke Slot, Roderick Nieuwenhuis
News organizations try to improve the relationship with their audiences by seeking interaction with them - also known as participatory journalism. But not everyone participates; many news consumers...
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Mutual aid for local journalism?: A public media collaborative Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Andrea Wenzel
This study looks at a public media station’s effort to build a “mutual aid journalism collaborative” connecting a cohort of community and ethnic media journalists, podcasters, bloggers, and social ...
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Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the COVID-19 pandemic Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Daria Kravets, Anna Ryzhova, Florian Toepfl, Arista Beseler
Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results that are biased tow...
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Digital journalism in Spain: Technological, sociopolitical and economic factors as drivers of media evolution Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Ramón Salaverría, María-del-Pilar Martínez-Costa
Digital journalism has been a reality in Spain for nearly 30 years. In this time, the number of digital media outlets has steadily increased to become the most abundant type of media in the 2020s, ...
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(Re)connecting with audiences. An overview of audience-inclusion initiatives in European French-speaking local news media Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel, Laura Amigo
This paper explores how local news organizations seek to strengthen their bond with audiences in French-speaking Europe (Belgium, France, and Switzerland). It does so by suggesting a new methodolog...
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Look me in the eyes: How direct address affects viewers’ experience of parasocial interaction and credibility? Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Erga Atad, Jonathan Cohen
This study examines whether viewers’ parasocial interaction with a journalist affects the credibility of the journalist and the credibility of the news message, as well as whether the journalist’s ...
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Metrics as the new normal – exploring the evolution of audience metrics as a decision-making tool in Swedish newsrooms 1995-2022 Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Carina Tenor
This paper explores the implementation process of digital audience metrics as a key strategy in Swedish legacy news production during the last three decades. The historical adoption of metrics in t...
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Does the audience welcome an audience-oriented journalism? Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Pauljan Truyens, Ike Picone
Although the ‘audience turn’ (Costera Meijer, 2020) in journalism has been extensively discussed in studies, and journalists acknowledge the need to improve their relationship with their audience (...
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Just Listen! The importance of listening in foreign correspondents–governments relationships Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Amira Bejerano, Clila Magen
This study examines the role of listening methods within public diplomacy (PD)/foreign correspondents' relations. Listening theory plays a double role in the study: a) It serves as the theoretical ...
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How online harassment affects Korean journalists? The effects of online harassment on the journalists’ psychological problems and their intention to leave the profession Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Na Yeon Lee, Ahran Park
This study examined the effects of online harassment on journalists’ psychological trauma and their intention to leave work. It also investigated whether journalists’ psychological trauma mediates ...
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“I love learning new things”: An institutional logics perspective on learning in professional journalism Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Minna Koivula, Tiina Saari, Mikko Villi
In contemporary working life, journalists are often faced with the pressures of an increasingly precarious field where employment is less stable and more contractual than in previous years. Consequ...
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Who is who in fact-checked conspiracy theories? Disseminators, sources, and the struggle for authority in polarized environments Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques, Paulo Ferracioli, Naiza Comel, Andressa Butture Kniess
Despite the growing scholarship concerning mis- and disinformation, research has yet to assess how journalism tackles conspiracy theories in settings where news organizations and media professional...
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Targeting the trades, press associations, and J-schools: Tobacco industry mapping and shaping of metajournalistic discourses Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Michael Buozis
Drawing on archival sources, this study explores how tobacco companies and their representatives targeted journalism trade publications, professional and press associations, and journalism schools ...
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News values in a digital age- Intra-media, inter-media, and extra-media platforms Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Lisa Merete Kristensen, Peter Bro
News values and newsworthiness have been central concepts of Journalism Studies since they were first introduced to the public over a hundred years ago. Seminal studies of 20th-century media examin...
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Front-page prominence and newspaper ownership: Examining US women’s national team coverage after 2015 and 2019 World Cup victories Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Roxane Coche, Travis R Bell
The FIFA Women’s World Cup was a steeple of professional sport in the summers of 2015 and 2019. Did newspapers deem the story newsworthy enough to reach the front page? This content analysis of ove...
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“Despite everything, love”: Commemorative journalism and the rereading of the critical rereading of the Israeli past Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Danielle Yusufov, Oren Meyers
This study examined how commemorative journalism shapes collective memory by exploring 18 supplements and special projects commemorating Israel’s 70th anniversary. The research questions focused on...
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Are women journalists in leadership changing work conditions and newsroom culture? Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Karin Assmann, Stine Eckert
Using standpoint epistemology and critical mass theory this study analyzes the potential impact on work culture and conditions in German newsrooms following a call for voluntary gender quotas in ne...
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Ideological crystallization: rethinking the alternative-mainstream binary in times of populist politics Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Maud Peeters, Pieter Maeseele
This paper assesses if and how alternative news media manifest their counter-hegemonic potential within the current conjuncture of populist politics in Western liberal democracies. Based on the met...
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Digital transformation of journalism and media in Serbia: What has gone wrong? Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Aleksandra Krstic
The aim of this paper is to sketch a brief history of complex digital transformation of media and journalism in the context of Serbia, a European country which has undergone politically turbulent t...
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Challenging journalistic objectivity: How journalists of color call for a reckoning Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Thomas R Schmidt
This study explores how journalists in the United States advocated for a stronger affirmation of social justice in journalism following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Analyzing the metajournal...
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A game worth playing: The formation of a journalistic Illusio in late nineteenth century France and the USA Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Matthew Powers, Sandra Vera-Zambrano
This article examines the formation of a belief in journalism as a worthwhile career in France and the United States. Using journalists’ memoirs, early textbooks and novels depicting journalism, we...
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Conceiving Computer-Assisted Reporting: Optimism, materialism, and technological determinism in United States-focused textbooks Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Perry Parks, Will Mari
This study examines how US-focused instructional textbooks presented newsgathering approaches associated with the Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) movement from the late 20th to the early 21st cen...
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Coverage of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in the international press: A perspective on indexing theory Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Shabir Hussain, Ayesha Jehangir
This article tests the key arguments of indexing theory by analysing how the press of seven countries reported Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. The seven countries represent a mix of demo...
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Disinformation and weaponized communication: The spread of ideological hate about the Macedonian name in Greece Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis
The study examined through ideological discourse analysis (IDA) 38 widely spread disinformation-laced news stories (or “fake news”) regarding the Macedonian Name Dispute (MND) and the “Prespes Agre...
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Information flows from local to national: Evidence from 21 major US cities Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Lei Guo, Yiyan Zhang
Local journalism is in decline in the United States. As one way to assess the state of local journalism, this study examines the information flows between local and national media in the online med...
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“Voices from the Island”: Informational annexation of Crimea and transformations of journalistic practices Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Ksenia Ermoshina
After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, the peninsula experienced a progressive transition of telecommunication and broadcasting infrastructure under Russian influence, followed by ...
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Do media systems matter? A comparative study of editorials on the migration crisis in the UK, German and Greek traditional press Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Theodora A Maniou, Michalis Moutselos
This study compares the editorial coverage of the 2015 migration crisis in major centre-left and centre-right newspapers in three European countries affected (the UK, Germany and Greece). We test t...
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Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiences Journalism (IF 3.194) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 John Magnus R. Dahl, Brita Ytre-Arne
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward questions of what citizens need and want from journalism in a global crisis. In this article, we analyse one particular aspect of pandemic news experiences...