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News Automation and Algorithmic Transparency in the Newsroom: The Case of the Washington Post Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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 3.604) 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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Navigating Public Service and Profit-Making Mandates: The Case of the Daily Graphic Newspaper Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) 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 3.604) 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...
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Journalists’ Perceptions of Precarity: Toward a Theoretical Model Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jana Rick, Thomas Hanitzsch
Journalistic work has become increasingly precarious. Labor conditions in the profession meet several criteria of precarity, as established in the sociology of work. Journalists, especially freelan...
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An Intersectional Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand Journalists’ Online and Offline Experiences of Abuse, Threats and Violence Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Susan Fountaine, Cathy Strong
Criticism towards journalists has increased significantly since the internet created easy and anonymous communication and has turned more abusive and threatening in recent years, becoming a regular...
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Professionalizing Emotions as Reflective Engagement in Emerging Forms of Journalism Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mojca Pajnik
The argument for this article rests on exploring the significance of emotions and emotion-related forms of journalism that have historically been dismissed as improper reporting and flawed journali...
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New Guests Crashing the Party: A Typology of Journalistic Collaboration Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Patrick Walters
This study examines the key factors involved when news work is done through collaboration. The author draws on two years of ethnographic observation, interviews and textual analysis in examining tw...
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Dynamics of Campaign, Press, and Public Discourse in Electoral Politics Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Phillip Arceneaux, Osama Albishri, Joshua Anderson, Spiro Kiousis
Utilizing agenda-building theory, we explore how campaigns and parties influenced press and public agendas during Florida’s 2018 midterm election. We investigate if the Gubernatorial and Senate cam...
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Correction Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Published in Journalism Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Dag Elgesem, Erik Knudsen, Kjersti Fløttum
How do journalists conceive of covering climate change from a lifestyle perspective? Do they think reporting on climate and lifestyle should provide their audiences with advice and solutions for ho...
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Rectifying Harm Through Care-Based Practices: How Journalists Might Tend to Disengaged Communities Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Sue Robinson, Patrick Johnson
Journalists struggle to engage with disengaged communities, especially conservative and BIPOC groups. In this research, we suggest that an ethic of care, born from developmental psychology, can be ...
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Rethinking Journalist-Politician Relations Using a Small State Framework: Mobile Generalists, Personal Closeness and Professional Distance Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Jón Gunnar Ólafsson
This article examines the relationship between journalists and politicians in Iceland. I illustrate how there are limitations in the existing journalist-source relations literature when it comes to...
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Journalists as Mindful Users of Language (Change): Gender-Inclusive Spanish in Argentinian News Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Mariana Fried, Isabel Awad
In Argentina, arguably a front-runner country in efforts to challenge linguistic sexism, a wide variety of gender-inclusive styles are visible across and within the news media. This suggests that A...
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Why People Rely on Fact-Checkers? Testing Theses of “Perceived Severity of Fake News” and “Disappointment in News Media” Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Chang Sup Park
This study examines whether perceived severity of fake news and news media skepticism separately and/or jointly explain the use of and trust in fact-checkers. Drawing upon a survey of 2350 US adult...
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Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Özlem Erkmen
This study aimed to examine the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological trends and gaps in data journalism research by conducting a systematic literature review of 102 articles published in Eng...
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“I Hope my Partner Will Keep me up-to-date”: How Couples Navigate News Consumption and Avoidance Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Hadas Gur-Ze’ev, Tali Aharoni, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
In an era of information overload, understanding individuals’ news consumption and avoidance necessitates an examination of the specific contexts in which these practices occur. While research in j...
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News for (Me and) You: Exploring the Reporting Practices of Citizen Journalists on TikTok Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin
The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing and finding news and information, especially for younger people. Most scholarly research examining news shar...
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Avoiding News is Hard Work, or is it? A Closer Look at the Work of News Avoidance among Frequent and Infrequent Consumers of News Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Stephanie Edgerly
The study explores the experience of news avoidance among two groups—those who frequently consume news and those who do not. I focus the work of news avoidance, by asking: in today’s media environm...
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Science Journalism in the Arab Region: Perennial Problems and Potential Solutions Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Noha Mellor
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the acute need for science journalism in the Arab region, revealing challenges such as dependence on foreign sources for science news. The scarcity of job opportun...
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Journalistic Role Performance in Times of COVID Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Daniel C. Hallin, Claudia Mellado, Akiba Cohen, Nicolas Hubé, David Nolan, Gabriella Szabó, Yasser Abuali, Carlos Arcila, Maha Attia, Nicole Blanchett, Katherine Chen, Sergey Davydov, Mariana De Maio, Miguel Garcés, Marju Himma-Kadakas, María Luisa Humanes, Christi I-Hsuan Lin, Sophie Lecheler, Misook Lee, Mireya Márquez, Jamie Matthews, Karen McIntyre, Jad Melki, Peter Maurer, Marco Mazzoni, Jacques
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of...
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Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word: Reinforcing Institutional Identities through Newspaper Apologies for Racist Past Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Nisha Sridharan, Angeline Taylor
Following the early twenty-first Century’s “age of apologies,” news organizations have been among the institutions apologizing for their historical role in promoting racist rhetoric by directly add...
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Framing the U.S. and Russia Coverage: The Limited Agency of Foreign Correspondents and the Reproduction of Bias in the News Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Iuliia Alieva, Natasha Bluth
Media representations have long reinforced Russia’s negative impression in the U.S. and that of the U.S. in Russia, shaping public opinion and foreign policy. While content analysts examine stereot...
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Commercial News as Cultural Form Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 David Ryfe
Advertising-supported journalism, conventionally referred to as “commercial news,” is in decline. Efforts to make sense of this fact have been hampered by the narrow assumption that commercial news...
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In Peace Journalism we Trust? Effects of Peace Journalism on News-item Credibility and Media Trust Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Meagan E. Doll, Patricia Moy, Kathleen Beckers
Responding to criticisms that conflict reporting is at times overly sensational with negative impacts on individuals, peace journalism aims to shift journalistic attention from episodic, event-base...
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When Worlds Collide: Journalistic, Market, and Tech Logics in the Adoption of News Recommender Systems Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Eliza Mitova, Sina Blassnig, Edina Strikovic, Aleksandra Urman, Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser
An increasing number of media organisations are adopting news recommender systems (NRS). Such algorithmic technologies, which prioritise content based on, for example, previous user behaviour or po...
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A Coalition for Science Journalism as a Multi-Stakeholder Community of Practice: A Proposal from South Asia Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Adnan Rehmat
Science journalism in Global South is hindered by several factors, including the absence of local science stories, insufficiently trained science journalists, and a communication gap between commun...
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Twitter’s Technological Affordances and Science Journalism in the Global South: A Media Richness Approach from South Africa Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Sisanda Nkoala
This study uses media richness theory to examine social media usage in science journalism from the Global South. By analysing content from the Twitter feeds of three South African-based science jou...
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Beyond “Online Notice-Me”: Analysing Online Harassment Experiences of Journalists in Nigeria Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Temple Uwalaka, Fred Amadi
Journalists are increasingly reporting that online harassment has become a normative part of their lives, and that online harassment experience induces fatigue, anxiety, and self-censorship on them...
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Supporting National Science Journalism through International Organization: The Creation of the Ibero-American Association of Science Journalism Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Luisa Massarani, Danilo Magalhães
Science journalism associations at a national and international level have aimed to form networks of support for the professionalization of the field. In this article, we focus at the process of co...
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Making it Fit: How Science News Gets Remediated for Facebook and Instagram Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Marie Verstappen, Michaël Opgenhaffen
Today’s news users have a wide range of options when it comes to news consumption. Articles can be read on an app, via a news website, on social media or a printed newspaper. To provide these diffe...
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“Let’s Not Tank the Reputation of This Organization.” How Newsroom Social Media Policies Exacerbate Journalism’s Labor Crisis Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Logan Molyneux, Jacob L. Nelson
This study explores the tension between journalists’ personal social media accounts and newsroom social media policies to understand how newsroom managers exacerbate journalism’s labor crisis by de...
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Scandinavian Hyperpartisans Prevail? News Use on Facebook During the Covid-19 Pandemic Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Anders Olof Larsson
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that right-wing hyperpartisan media have been quite successful online and on social media—especially in comparison with their mainstream media counterparts. However, the bulk of this research has not taken the theme of the media products themselves into account, looking into the types of themes dealt with by different types of media actors—and how such themes appear
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Building Better Local Media Systems: A Comparative Policy Discourse Analysis of Initiatives to Renew Journalism Around the World Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Timothy Neff, Victor Pickard
ABSTRACT Amid the retreat of local journalism and the resulting emergence of “news deserts,” where communities lack authentic and civically accountable sources of news, it is important to not only seek new revenue streams for news organizations but also to consider how financial resources and institutional structures secure journalistic autonomy and an abiding dedication to public service. Surveying
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“I can’t be neutral or centrist in a debate over my own humanity”: A Study of Disagreements Between Journalists and Editors, and What They Tell Us About Objectivity Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Magda Konieczna, Ellen Santa Maria
ABSTRACT Journalistic objectivity has long been in flux. This paper examines cases in which we see journalists aiming to subvert norms, and managers pushing back, reprimanding the journalists and removing them from coverage or firing them. Understanding what’s happening at these edges of acceptable journalistic practice can offer clarity about the nature of change in the field. We find journalists
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Break a Story: Examining the Effects of Instagram Stories from News Accounts on Adolescents’ Political Learning Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Susan Vermeer, Linda van den Heijkant
ABSTRACT The increasing reliance on social media as a source of news, particularly among adolescents, raises important questions for democracy regarding the potential of these platforms to promote engagement with politics. This study sought to examine adolescents’ affective (emotions, feelings), behavioural (actions and issue-specific interest), and cognitive (issue-specific knowledge) responses to
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Platform Configuration and Digital Materiality: How News Publishers Innovate Their Practices Amid Entanglements with the Evolving Technological Infrastructure of Platforms Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Sherwin Chua
Technology companies and their platforms are important digital intermediaries for news publishers. Platforms as technological infrastructures have digital materiality and how publishers organise th...
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Everyone Has an Opinion and there are No Rules: How U.S. Journalists Articulate the Impact of Social Media on Journalism Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Stephanie Edgerly, YingYing Chen, Kjerstin Thorson, Taewoo Kang
ABSTRACT This study examines how newsworkers make sense of the impact of social media on journalism. We draw on the concept of metajournalistic discourse as a lens through which to analyze the web of positive and negative meanings evoked by journalists when assessing the industry impact of social media. We analyze data from a national survey of U.S. journalists (N = 1272), combining a computational
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Gatekeeping, News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Laura Jacobs, Joost van Spanje
ABSTRACT This study addresses the question what makes hate crime incidents newsworthy and which factors are conducive to such incidents being reported on. Relying on news value theory, we identify criteria (cultural proximity, conflict) that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We use a dataset of police-registered hate crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 (N = 3379). This
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Identifying Major Components of Solutions-Oriented Journalism: A Review to Guide Future Research Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Kathryn Thier, Kang Namkoong
ABSTRACT This article reviews the peer-reviewed literature about solutions journalism and constructive journalism to unpack their components, as such emerging solutions-oriented approaches gain steam in journalistic practice and scholarly examination. We find that solutions-oriented journalism differs from problem-oriented journalism in its qualities, frames, scope, purpose, orientation, boundaries
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Understanding Audience Emotional Needs in Crisis Journalism: The Boston Globe’s Social Media Coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Seseer Mou-Danha, Elizabeth Crisp Crawford
ABSTRACT This study examines the interaction between journalistic news posts and audience comments during a crisis, with attention to how various messaging approaches converged during the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing—the first major terrorist incident of the social media age. Using Taylor’s Six-Segment Message Strategy Wheel, this manuscript explores how journalists and commenters responded
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Black-boxing Journalistic Chains, an Actor-network Theory Inquiry into Journalistic Truth Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Dilina Nawararthne, Cristiano Storni
ABSTRACT Understanding journalistic truth has always been important in Journalism Studies, but it is increasingly significant in a society influenced by constantly evolving digital technologies and information disorder. This article explores the potential of “actor-network theory” to enhance the understanding of journalistic truth, surpassing the limitations of existing perspectives that categorise
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“You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Tali Aharoni, Eedan Amit-Danhi, Maximilian Overbeck, Christian Baden, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
ABSTRACT This paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences’ perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the context of election projections
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Newsrooms as Sites of Community and Identity: Exploring the Importance of Material Place for Journalistic Work Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Phoebe Maares, Sandra Banjac, Daniel Nölleke
ABSTRACT Recent research has examined the sociomaterial contexts that shape journalistic practice within and beyond the newsroom, considering relationships between humans, and between humans and (non)physical artifacts like desks, computers, or software. While much of that research has focused on the use and role of technology, recent research also suggests an affective dimension of materiality like
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Introduction: Understanding Roots and Betweenness Defining Safety of Journalists as a Sub-field of Research. Reading between the Lines Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Roy Krøvel, Fabrizio Palumbo, Kristin Skare Orgeret
Published in Journalism Studies (Vol. 24, No. 7, 2023)
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How News Organizations Coordinate, Select, and Edit Content for Social Media Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review Journalism Studies (IF 3.604) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Luise Anter
ABSTRACT Social media platforms (SMP) are increasingly important for news organizations to reach (wider) audiences. The accompanying platformization of journalism has raised concerns that the adaptation to social media characteristics leads to trivialization and softening of news. Often triggered by these normative considerations, journalistic content production for social media has attracted much