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Playful Citizens: How Children Develop and Integrate News-Related Practices in Their Daily Lives Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Denise Mensonides, Anna Van Cauwenberge, Joëlle Swart, Marcel Broersma
This paper studies children’s (aged 8–12) news-related practices and subsequent acts of lived citizenship in formal and informal social contexts. While children in this age group are increasingly e...
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Journalistic Careers and Gender in Brazil: Impasses and Inequalities between Men and Women in the Profession Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Fábio Henrique Pereira, Liliane Maria Macedo Machado
This study analyzes the trajectory of Brazilian women journalists. It compares the position of women and men journalists in the workplace and in the configuration of journalistic careers. It also a...
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“Am I a Journalist?” Lifestyle Journalists’ Discursive Construction of Their Profession Inside, Outside, and Alongside the Journalistic Field Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Lydia Cheng, Bunty Avieson
Scholarly understanding of what “journalism” is has long been shaped by discourse on what “hard news” or political journalism entails. Less academic attention has been paid to perceived alternative...
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Mediated Public Diplomacy and RT on Instagram: Role of International Institutions, Audience Engagement, and Online Account Bans Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Carol Kay Winkler, Virginia Massignan, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mor Yachin, Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu, Kayla Denise McMinimy
Changes in the global media environment now challenge relationships between and within states. To expand understandings of mediated public diplomacy, this study examined 13,500 Instagram posts dist...
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Journalists at the Frontline: Recognising and Managing Emotions in the Face of Conflict and Terrorism in Burkina Faso Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Lassané Yaméogo, Florence Le Cam, Marie Fierens, Emma Heywood, Jean-Pierre Sawadogo, Salamata Sidibé
This article examines the impact of emotions on the professional realities and practices of Burkinabè reporters working in conflict-ridden regions of Burkina Faso. To achieve this, it adopts an inn...
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Boundary Work in the Nordic Media Model: Metajournalistic Discourse on Alternative Media in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Leif Pedersen, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Tine Ustad Figenschou, Eva Mayerhöffer
The increasing prominence of alternative news media has been identified as a particular challenge to contemporary established journalism, next to collapsing financial models, platform dependency, f...
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Correction Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-24
Published in Journalism Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Indifferent About Online Traffic: The Posting Strategies of Five News Outlets During Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Mari Vállez, Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Javier Guallar, Marco T. Bastos
This study examines the publication strategies of legacy news outlets on Twitter following the company’s acquisition by Elon Musk. We used SCImago Media Rankings to identify the news organizations ...
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Engagement as Revenue in Journalism: Turning Community, Comments, and Access into Economic Viability Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Patrick Ferrucci
While both the journalism industry and journalism studies research have long celebrated engagement as both a normative goal and a potential revenue source, scant evidence exists illustrating how an...
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Young People and News: A Systematic Literature Review Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Heidi Røsok-Dahl, Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk
Exploring how young people engage with, share, and are influenced by news has long captivated academic interest. It is crucial for comprehending how young people are informed and develop critical t...
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Do Algorithms Do It Better? Analysing Occupational Ideology in the Age of Computational Journalism Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou, Christos Danezis
Journalism is increasingly discussed through the lens of a quantitative and material turn associated with data and computational journalism, implying that important aspects of news production are m...
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Still a Boy’s Club: Women Journalists & Political News Coverage Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Nichole M. Bauer, Cana Kim, Kenlea Barnes, Khaleel Ouedraogo, Elise Strain
We investigate the level of gender parity in political news reporting at the New York Times. We apply a media sociology approach to examine how gender stereotypes, women in media leadership, and wo...
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Every Journalist has an Achilles’ Heel: The Interference–Vulnerability Model Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Lea Stahel
To what extent do journalists differ in their vulnerability to pressure from actors outside media organizations? This study complements research on such external interference by introducing the int...
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Journalistic Discourse on Disruptive News Ventures Launched by Media Insiders Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Kevin Grieves, Erica Salkin
Disruptive journalistic innovation tends to challenge established news organizations and practices from the outside in and from the bottom up, especially when that innovation is driven by those con...
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Pointing Fingers in the Disinformation Era: How Journalists and Politicians Perceive Each Other’s Role in Spreading Disinformation and Its Impact on their Relationship Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Emma van der Goot, Karolin Soontjens, Kathleen Beckers, Willem Buyens, Peter van Aelst
In an era of post-truth and disinformation, the crucial relationship between journalists and politicians is under increasing pressure. Some politicians publicly question the media’s role in spreadi...
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A Virtuous Circle: Explaining News Deserts and Their Relationships with Social Capital Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Jaewon Royce Choi, Edward C. Malthouse
Popularized with the term “news desert,” the decline of the number of newspapers has cast a gloom over the future of American democracy. However, there has been little research on what factors are ...
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Reconceptualising Transparency in Journalism: Thinking Through Secrecy and PR Press Releases in News Cultures Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Anne M. Cronin
This article re-examines debates about transparency in journalism by using a sociological framework that analyses how transparency is held in a dynamic tension with secrecy. I use a specific empiri...
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User Perceptions of News Recommender Systems and Trust in Media Outlets: A Five-Country Study Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Sina Blassnig, Eliza Mitova, Edina Strikovic, Aleksandra Urman, Claes de Vreese, Anikó Hannák, Frank Esser
The study investigates user perceptions of news media’s employment of news recommender systems (NRS) and their relation to trust in media outlets. A cross-sectional survey (n = 5079) in the United ...
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Local Journalists as Brokers: Conceptualizing Information Relationships in Rural Communities Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Tyler W. S. Nagel, Marcel Broersma
This paper introduces the concept of brokerage to the scholarship of local news. Drawing on anthropological conceptions of actors that bridge gaps in social structure and help information flow acro...
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Exploring the Value of Computational Methods for Metajournalistic Discourse: The Example of COVID-19 Reporting in Dutch Newspapers Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Dennis Nguyen, Karin van Es
The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about trust in journalism and the quality of news reporting during societal crises. While journalists and media professionals frequently offered critical refl...
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Introduction: Understanding Social Media Journalism Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Jonathan Hendrickx, Michaël Opgenhaffen
Now over a decade since the influential paper Understanding Social Media Logic by van Dijck and Poell was published, the total number, sheer variety and penetration of social media apps in everyday...
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The Dynamics of Political Interest and News Media Avoidance: A Generational and Longitudinal Perspective Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Erik Espeland
Despite the abundance of political information in today’s media environment, an increasing number of people tune out from the news. Scholars have traced these developments to both individual motiva...
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What Is the Problem with Misinformation? Fact-checking as a Sociotechnical and Problem-Solving Practice Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Oscar Westlund, Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Lucas Graves, Rebekah Larsen, Steen Steensen
Misinformation is a complex and global problem of social and technical dimensions. It is a problem that is exacerbated and sought to be solved by using diverse technologies. It is also a problem th...
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Framing Policy Reform in Europe. A Comparative Study of Frame Variation Across Countries, Newspapers, and Time Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Linda van den Heijkant, Morten Skovsgaard, Rens Vliegenthart
Politicians must navigate the complexities of social policy reform to ensure sustainable fiscal policies while considering their impact on citizens. News media play a crucial role as a source of po...
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Exploring the Relationship Between Stylistic Features and Reactions on Facebook: A Comparative Analysis of Newspaper Headlines and Status Messages Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Kenza Lamot, Hannes Cools, Ine Gevers
Social media platforms have become omnipresent over the last fifteen years and have forced news outlets to repackage the distribution of their content, custom-tailoring their news in accordance wit...
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Journalism Between Science and Development—A Decolonised and Dewesternised Normative Framework Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 An Nguyen
This introductory paper will (a) review the intersection between science, journalism and development from a historical perspective, (b) propose normative directions for science journalism of the Gl...
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Abusive Metajournalistic Discourse Towards Journalists on Social Media Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Ahmed Al-Rawi, Maliha Siddiqi, Alaa Al-Musalli
In this study, we used a mixed method approach to investigate online abuse mostly targeting journalists, by focusing on the use of the term presstitute. We inductively analyzed the professional cat...
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Correction Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-22
Published in Journalism Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Servant of the Authorities or an Ally of Civil Society? The Role Perceptions and Role Performance of Local Interloper Media Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Juho Ruotsalainen, Viljami Vaarala, Jaana Hujanen, Mikko Grönlund, Katja Lehtisaari
The study explores the journalistic role perceptions and role performance of local interloper media practitioners in Finland. The examined media include non-commercial outlets funded by a city admi...
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How Journalists Perceive News Avoidance: Reactions and Solutions to the Missing Audience as Boundary Work Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Ruth Palmer, Stephanie Edgerly
How do journalists think news avoidance can be addressed? We analyze how US journalists (N = 1,543) responded to two survey questions about consistent news avoidance: whether they believed it was p...
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Feeling Misinformed? The Role of Perceived Difficulty in Evaluating Information Online in News Avoidance and News Fatigue Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Ariel Hasell, Audrey Halversen
As misinformation has become a prominent topic in U.S. politics, Americans have become increasingly concerned about the problem that misinformation poses. Correspondingly, people have become weary ...
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Politicisation of Science in COVID-19 Editorial Cartoons: A Comparative Study of Cartoons in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Emma Weitkamp, Elena Milani, Marina Joubert, Michelle Riedlinger
This study explores the representation of scientists and politicians in editorial cartoons from three countries: Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Of 466 cartoons collected from six S...
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Difficult Memories as Institutional Narrative: U.S. Journalists’ Recollections of 9/11 Across Three Anniversaries Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Jeanna Sybert
Due to professional norms like objectivity, the emotional experiences U.S. journalists have while reporting tend to be obscured. However, occasions of memory-making, particularly around traumatic e...
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In Solidarity: Undocuqueer Identities and Politics in U.S. Spanish-Language Ethnic Media Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ayleen Cabas-Mijares
This study presents a critical discourse analysis of the coverage of undocumented LGBTQ people and the Undocuqueer Movement by Spanish-language news media to examine how notions of solidarity and a...
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Why Do Social Media Users Accept, Doubt or Resist Corrective Information? A Qualitative Analysis of Comments in Response to Corrective Information on Social Media Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Michael Hameleers
Although the widespread application of corrective information has been found to lower the credibility of misinformation, there may be important sources of resistance among social media users that p...
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Coding Competencies across Roles: Computer Programming Practices in News Media Organizations Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Cindy Royal, Allie Kosterich
Computer programming, or what is commonly known as coding, is an emerging skill supporting the development of digital products in news media organizations. Through the application of practice theor...
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Survival Games: Understanding Journalistic and Extra-Journalistic Practices and Pursuits of Small-Town Stringers in South India Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Nimmagadda Bhargav, John Downey
The precarity of journalistic labour has received significant scholarly attention globally, leading to a plethora of studies that attempt to theorise changing journalistic roles, practices, and nor...
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Zooming in on Topics: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Motives for Selective News Avoidance Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Svenja Schäfer, Dominika Betakova, Sophie Lecheler
Intentional news avoidance is a common behavior that can be influenced by individual, content, and contextual factors. However, prior studies have primarily focused on general news avoidance and ne...
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No More Market-Driven Than Hard News: Lifestyle Journalists' Market Drive and Perceived Audience Obligations Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Gregory P. Perreault, Patrick Ferrucci, Grace Ficara
Throughout journalism studies scholarship, the market orientation of lifestyle journalism has been associated with its diminished place within the journalistic field. Specifically, because lifestyl...
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The Quality of COVID-19 Coverage: Investigating Relevance and Viewpoint Diversity in German Mainstream and Alternative Media Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Carsten Reinemann, Marcus Maurer, Simon Kruschinski, Pablo Jost
The COVID-19 pandemic was a major challenge for journalism. In the case of Germany, critics very early on voiced concerns over the quality of mainstream media coverage. Mainstream media were attack...
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The Precarity Trap: Modelling Non-Democratic Journalistic Practices Beyond Media Capture Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira
How and why does legacy news media move from protecting to undermining democracy? Several studies argue that journalism can facilitate and shape democratic backsliding. However, evidence is scarce ...
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News Automation and Algorithmic Transparency in the Newsroom: The Case of the Washington Post Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Hannes Cools, Michael Koliska
News organizations have turned to news automation to innovate specific processes in the newsroom. Despite the many advantages for news organizations in producing innovative news content, the news a...
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News Avoidance and Poverty: Intersectional Marginalization in the Norwegian “Media Welfare State” Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner, Torgeir Uberg Nærland
Based on interviews with 41 informants, this article presents an analysis of whether, how and why everyday news use is constrained by everyday conditions of poverty in the “media welfare state” of ...
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Journalists’ Apprehension of Being Politically Correct: A Source of Racial Stereotyping of Street Harassment Perpetrators in the Press Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Mischa J. T. Dekker, Jan Willem Duyvendak
While racialized stereotyping in mass media is well-documented, sociological analysis of the journalistic practices and norms contributing to the production of such representations remains underdev...
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Who Are They? Different Types of News Avoiders Based on Motives, Values and Personality Traits Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kiki de Bruin, Rens Vliegenthart, Sanne Kruikemeier, Yael de Haan
The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to...
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Dissecting Social Media Journalism: A Comparative Study Across Platforms, Outlets and Countries Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jonathan Hendrickx, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero
News outlets increasingly position themselves on social media platforms with platform-bound content next to their regular media offerings. At the time of writing, scholarship on studying these nove...
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News Production and the People of Silence: Pseudo-professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jonathan Ilan
Mobile technology is part and parcel of the news today, perhaps to such a degree that it is hard to imagine news without it. This technology has affected those platforms on which news is being prod...
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Is a Brand Journalist Just Another Journalist? Examining Differences and Similarities in the Self-Perceptions of Their Professional Roles and Ethical Orientations Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Benno Viererbl, Thomas Koch
The lines between journalism and public relations (PR) have become increasingly blurred with the rise of organizational media. Within this landscape, certain publications mimic journalistic formats...
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The Influence of Conflict News on Audience Digital Engagement Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Ashley Muddiman, Joshua M. Scacco
In a competitive digital environment, news outlets employ attention-gaining strategies, including the portrayal of conflict. Yet such coverage may backfire. Using an experiment comparing exposure t...
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The Psychophysiology of News Avoidance: Does Negative Affect Drive Both Attention and Inattention to News? Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Mia Carbone, Stuart Soroka, Johanna Dunaway
Technological change has produced a high-choice media environment in which selective exposure and news avoidance are increasingly feasible and common. The literature has suggested several correlate...
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“It was a Real Town Newspaper”: Creating Community-Centered News Myths Through Newspaper Closure Statements Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Nisha Sridharan, Rian Bosse
While ample scholarly attention has focused on the effects of news deserts in local communities, very little academic literature has examined the goodbye discourse in the final statements of local ...
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Mapping Automation in Journalism Studies 2010–2019: A Literature Review Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Marko Siitonen, Anne Laajalahti, Päivi Venäläinen
The algorithmic turn has fundamentally transformed journalistic work. Academic interest in the implication of automated algorithms for journalism has grown hand-in-hand with their everyday use. Thi...
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Right Topic, Right Source? Source Diversity and Balance in Right-Wing Alternative News Content Across Topics Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Annett Heft, Tim Ramsland, Eva Mayerhöffer
This article investigates how the hybrid nature of right-wing alternative news media striving for journalistic legitimacy and partisan credibility plays out on source and topical diversity and bala...
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News Coping and Resistance: An Examination of Entertainment as Self-Care in the Digital Black Press Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Miya Williams Fayne
Scholarship on the mainstream press in the United States has argued that in the new media age, consumers prefer entertainment while journalists prefer hard news—yet digital Black press journalists ...
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Managing Difficult Relationships: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in Nigeria, State Officials, and Senior Editors in Overseas Media Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Levi Obijiofor, Marie M’Balla-Ndi Oelgemoeller
This research systematically and empirically examines challenges that confront Nigerian foreign correspondents, including how foreign correspondents manage the demands of their job such as pressure...
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What is Rural Journalism? Occupational Precarity and Social Cohesion in US Rural Journalism Epistemology Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mildred F. Perreault, Jessica Walsh, Gregory Perreault, Louisa Lincoln, Ruth Moon
Given the recent focus on news poverty and gaps in local journalism, rural journalists would seem to have a challenging job. This study seeks to understand the novel experiences and challenges of j...
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Quality Journalism in Social Media – What We Know and Where We Need to Dig Deeper Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Matthias Degen, Max Olgemöller, Christian Zabel
While research on journalism in social media is extensive and approaches the topic from different perspectives, the consideration of what contributes to quality journalism in social media is underd...
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How News Found the Avoiders: The Changing News Routines of Infodemically Vulnerable Young People in England During Covid-19 Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 James Dennis
This article examines how young people (18–24) in England who experience social inequality consumed news during the first national Covid-19 lockdown. Described as “infodemically vulnerable” due to ...
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Navigating Public Service and Profit-Making Mandates: The Case of the Daily Graphic Newspaper Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Paul Koomson, S. Senyo Ofori-Parku
This study examines how Ghana’s Daily Graphic, a public newspaper operating as a limited liability company, balances its public service mandate with its economic rationality. The case study combine...
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Correcting False Information: Journalistic Coverage During the 2016 and 2020 US Elections Journalism Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Clara Juarez Miro, Jonathan Anderson
This study examines journalistic coverage of false information through a qualitative textual analysis of news about four popular false information cases during the 2016 and 2020 US presidential ele...