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The Nexus Between COVID-19 and Climate Change in US Newspapers: A Content Analysis Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Ran Duan
Recently, the topic of COVID-19 has been discussed profusely in conjunction with climate change in the media. This study explores how US print newspapers cover the nexus between climate change and ...
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Empowerment Through Sustainable Journalism Practices in Africa: A Walkthrough of EcoNai + and Ushahidi Digital Platforms Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Adeola Abdulateef Elega, Allen Munoriyarwa, Lucia Mesquita, Isabella Gonçalves, Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
In this article, we address the question of sustainable journalism through the case studies of two leading digital journalism platforms in Africa: Ushahidi and EcoNai + . We draw on the walkthrough...
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Diversity as Capital? Marginalized Identities and Subtle Inequality in Data Journalism Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Franka Bals, Laura Laugwitz, Juliane A. Lischka
This study examines the intersectional dynamics of gender, socio-economic status, and migration history in data journalism, applying Bourdieu’s field theory to explore how capital is accumulated an...
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Journalism, Crisis, and Resistance. Journalistic Role Performance in the Brazilian Progressive Media Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Afonso de Albuquerque, Reynaldo Aragon Gonçalves
Journalists working in the Brazilian Progressive Media (BPM) have struggled to be recognized as legitimate journalists. This article analyzes how these journalists justify their practices and locat...
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Performing Discourse in Pursuit of Credibility: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Dutch Live Blogs Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Sebastiaan van der Lubben, Yael de Haan, Sanne Kruikemeier, Jaap de Jong, Willem Koetsenruijter
Live blogs are a popular format for covering crises, breaking news, politics, or sports events. Despite their popularity among journalists and the public, the format has also been subject to schola...
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Testing a Typology of Data Journalism: Professional and Epistemological Orientations Across and Between Global Regions Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Gerry Lanosga, Lindita Camaj, Jason Martin
This article provides analysis of the growing data journalism subfield using data gathered from a cross-national survey of journalists in 68 countries. The study makes two contributions to the lite...
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Uses of Generative AI in the Newsroom: Mapping Journalists’ Perceptions of Perils and Possibilities Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Hannes Cools, Nicholas Diakopoulos
This study delves into journalists’ perspectives on the perils and possibilities of using generative AI-tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and DALL-E in the newsroom. Semi-structured interviews with journal...
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Assessment of Journalism Principles in Media: An Evaluative Instrument Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Joshua A. Fisher, Jennifer A. Palilonis
The integration of emerging technologies in journalism raises concerns about their impact on journalistic principles. During these technologies’ early adoption stages, there is significant experime...
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The News Sourcing Practices of Solutions Journalists in Africa, Europe, and the U.S. Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Jennifer Brannock Cox, Serena Miller, Soo Young Shin
Solutions journalism is one of the newest alternative journalism strategies aimed at combating news fatigue through rigorous reporting on solutions to society's problems. One of the primary goals f...
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Introduction: Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Change Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Claudia Mellado, Daniel Hallin
Published in Journalism Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“I Feel Burnout as a Journalist”: Testing Two Interaction Models on Burnout in a Hyper-Connected Society Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Bumsoo Kim, Nicholas R. Buzzelli
The pursuit of professionalism, an important value for journalists in a competitive media industry, can be burdensome. Therefore, this study gauges how professionalism is associated with journalist...
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Reshaping the Spheres: Gatekeeping as an Ethical Normative Imperative Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Patrick Ferrucci, Toby Hopp
This theoretical essay argues for reconstituting the normative role of gatekeeping of journalism in a functioning democracy. It contends that in this time of disinformation, misinformation and fake...
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Balancing Needs and Values: A Multi-Stakeholder Examination of Algorithmic News Recommenders in the Netherlands Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Karin van Es, Dennis Nguyen
This paper aims to deepen understanding of the negotiation process underlying the values embedded in algorithmic news recommenders. The focus is on examining the perceptions and aspirations of diff...
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Life After News? How an Online Community of Journalists Discuss Stress and Provide Social Support Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Matthew Chew, Lydia Cheng, Edson C. Tandoc Jr
Journalists have been leaving the industry in droves due to stress and burnout. This study examines an online community of journalists discussing their “Plan B” to understand what they identify as ...
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Revisiting the Algorithms Behind the Headlines. How Journalists Respond to Professional Competition of Generative AI Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Arjen van Dalen
Due to its ability to process and create human-like texts, Generative AI such as ChatGPT is a potential game changer in news making. This paper re-examines central research areas that were analyzed...
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Autonomy Behind the Paywall: Subscription-Chasing and Journalistic Freedom at the Level of Practice Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Pauliina Penttilä
Addressing the growing phenomenon of datafied paywalling, an ethnographic case study examined journalistic autonomy at the level of day-to-day activities in Finnish tabloid Iltalehti, which launche...
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The Importance of the Human Touch in Journalism: Journalistic Values from an Audience Perspective Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Claudia Mellado, Constanza Gajardo
Traditionally anchored in principles like objectivity, autonomy, and independence, journalists’ professional values have long defined the core identity of the profession. However, given the transfo...
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Surprised by Joy: Professional Roles as Emotional Facets of News Production Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Gregory Perreault, Claudia Mellado
Research in the field often reflects the serious, labor-intensive nature of journalism; findings that would seem to reflect the understandable exodus from the profession. Equally profound however i...
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Between Political Strife and National Science: COVID-19 Vaccines on the Main Brazilian TV newscast Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Luisa Massarani, Thaiane Oliveira, Amanda Medeiros, Eleonora de Magalhães Carvalho, Juliana Gagliardi de Araújo, Lídia Raquel Herculano Maia, Marina Ramalho, Mauricio Monteiro de Salles, Michelle da Costa Pereira Carneiro
Brazil ranks second worldwide in COVID-19 deaths. In this country, television is the most popular means of mass communication, and 95.5% of Brazilian homes have a TV set. During the coronavirus pan...
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“It Became No Man’s Land”: The Burden of Moderating Online Harassment in Newswork Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Tomás Dodds, Marloes Geboers, Mark Boukes
Online harassment against media workers has been on the rise, prompting academic and international organizations to call for comprehensive measures that could protect journalists from intimidation ...
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Crisis Reporting and Professionalism in Journalism: An Analysis of Reporting Practices in Cameroon and Nigeria Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Patience B. Fai, Steven W. Bayighomog, Jonathan Stubbs
This study examines the dynamics of journalistic professionalism in crisis reporting in Nigeria and Cameroon: countries which have experienced sustained violent secessionist crises since 2015 and 2...
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Personal Storytelling and Subjective Narratives of Local Reporters through Private Newsletters Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Julius Idowu Adebayo
This study explores the emergence of personal, subjective narratives in private, digital newsletters, focusing on the SIDINL network’s role in transforming citizens into local news reporters in Sub...
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Journalistic Roles and Political Parallelism in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ethiopia Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Terje Skjerdal
The article is an assessment of journalistic role performance and political parallelism in an African media system, specifically Ethiopia. Transitional countries such as Ethiopia are often associat...
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Fake News Makes the News: Definitions and Framing of Fake News in Mainstream Media Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Sandrine Boudana, Elad Segev
This paper explores how news media define and frame fake news, thus orienting public perceptions of fake news in terms of problem, causality, responsibilities, and solutions. It first maps the news...
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Pandemic Podcasting: Industry Disruption, Organizational Adaptation, and Covering Sports When the World Stops Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Ryan Broussard, Lindsey A. Sherrill, Marcus Funk
COVID-19 brought U.S. sports to an abrupt halt. As leagues struggled to find a path forward, so did sports podcasters, who had to find content to satisfy listeners and advertisers. Some print sport...
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“What the Heck Is Going on in the Group!”: Challenging Journalistic Authority by Pseudo-Professional WhatsApp News Groups Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Jonathan Ilan
This paper addresses the ways new entrants and mobile technologies have become significant challenges to the old news’ legitimacy models by focusing on pseudo-professional WhatsApp news groups from...
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Worth a Thousand Words: Crime Scenes Represented by Photojournalists and Forensic Photographers in Brazil Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Laura Patrício Macedo, Fábio Henrique Pereira
This article compares how crime scenes are represented by photojournalists and forensic photographers in the city of Brasília. It starts from the premise that crime scene photography adheres to the...
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Insta-News: How the New York Times and Washington Post Use Instagram Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Jeremy Saks, Ashley Hopkins
As social media platforms increasingly gain institutional power within the media landscape, it is important to understand how news organizations are working within the platforms’ restrictions. The ...
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Data Journalism Practices in Turkey During COVID-19: Methods, Narratives, News Production, and Future Directions Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Vera Cengiz, Sinan Kaya
This research investigates data journalism practices in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring their current usage, development, and prospects. The research focuses on data journalism metho...
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Powerful News Sources Versus Advocate-Journalists as Factors Affecting the Editorial Agenda-Building on Sustainable Development Goals Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Sadia Jamil
While journalism scholarship has extensively investigated the actors shaping news content, there is a paucity of research on how different factors influence newspaper editorial agendas for sustaina...
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The Ideal and Practice of Constructive Journalism: How South African Journalists Perceive Their Roles Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Barbara Fölscher-Kingwill, Herman Wasserman
This article enters into a growing conversation in the literature around the notion of constructive journalism as a normative paradigm for journalism practice. Literature on constructive journalism...
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Does News Diversity Work Among Audiences? A Citizen Experiment Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Jonathan Hendrickx, Kathleen Beckers, Kelly Van Droogenbroeck
Scholarly and policy debates alike frequently highlight the normative value of news diversity as a necessary prerequisite for journalism to optimally fulfil its watchdog function in democratic soci...
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Dealing with the Quiet Opposition? News Coverage of Climate Skepticism in Two Finnish Newspapers 1990–2021 Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Ville Kumpu
This article examines news coverage of climate skepticism in two Finnish newspapers between 1990 and 2021. It approaches climate skepticism as a professional problem that involves a tension between...
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Make Slot not Art: Creativity and Burnout in U.S. Local Television Newsrooms Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Carey L. Higgins-Dobney
Journalism is considered a creative industry, but newsroom workers can only incorporate creativity into their stories if they have the time, tools and support for such endeavors. The structural con...
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Being Authentic: Gender Identity, Leadership Enactment, and the Case Study of Indonesian Women Newsroom Leaders Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Fitria Andayani, Yong Volz
Globally, news organizations often maintain a male-dominated work culture, with a pronounced preference for men over women in leadership roles, mirroring trends observed in Indonesian newsrooms. Th...
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Putting Forward Sustainability as a Model for Journalism Education and Training Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Nancy Booker, Bruce Mutsvairo, Dinesh Baliah, Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Kristoffer Holt, Lars Tallert, Jean Mujati
African journalism practice presents unique opportunities and challenges that require journalists to be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to engage in sustainable journalism...
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The Context-Dependent Demand for Watchdog Journalism: Dynamics in Audience Expectations for Journalists’ Role Performance Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Morten Skovsgaard, Lene Heiselberg, Kim Andersen
The watchdog role is central to the democratic legitimacy of journalism and is also perceived as an essential part of journalists’ role performance by the public. So far, the expectations on journa...
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And That’s a Fact: A Rhetorical Perspective on the Role of Fact-Checkers Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Mette Bengtsson, Sabina Schousboe
Fact-checking initiatives have rapidly expanded worldwide with the overall aim of assessing the veracity of factual claims made in public. In this paper, we critique how the objectivity norm inform...
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COVID-19-Induced Challenges and Burnout among Bangladeshi Newspaper Journalists Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Ahmed Shatil Alam, Elanie Steyn
This explorative study investigates how a sample of newspaper journalists in Bangladesh experienced burnout symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent impacts on their jobs and newsro...
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Implications for Hybrid Newswork from the Work-from-Home Activities of Local US Television Journalists During COVID Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Kevin Crowston, Keren Henderson, Kian Loong Lua, Raghav Raheja
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many local television (TV) newsrooms decided to have employees work from home (WFH) or from the field rather than from the newsroom, creating a kind of hybrid wo...
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Journalistic Professionalism in a Time of Paradoxes: Ntv Online and “Alternative Voice” in Bangladesh Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Ameena Islam, Md Azalanshah Md Syed
This article explores the specific work mechanisms journalists use to promote the ideology of good and independent journalism at the online news services of Ntv station in Bangladesh. Along with th...
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It All Begins With a Name: Examining News During the Ketanji Brown Jackson Judicial Nomination Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Rachel Grant, Benjamin K. Johnson
After winning the US presidency, Joe Biden fulfilled a promise and put forward the name of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a nominee to the highest court in the nation on 25 February 2022. The purpose of ...
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Journalism Education and Sustainable Journalism in Ghana Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Gifty Appiah-Adjei
Despite a decentralised planning system for a multi-stakeholder approach in implementing the SDGs and numerous efforts towards attaining Agenda 2030, Ghana's progress is not at the rate required to...
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Un-Settling Stereotypes: Photo Agency Visual Representations of Syrian Refugee Resettlement in the United States Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jennifer Midberry, Laura P. B. Partain, Zachary Vaughn
News photographs of Syrian refugees fleeing conflict have been found to perpetuate stereotypes of dehumanization, victimhood, security threats, non-integrable, and dependency. This content analysis...
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Credible, but Not for Me: Immigrant Folk Theories of News Trust in Chinese, Korean, and Filipino Communities in the US Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Hazel Kwon, Kristina Vera-Phillips, Young Eun Moon, Chun Shao, Weiai Wayne Xu
This study examines how Asian immigrants in the United States navigate American news media and respond to misinformation. Drawing on theoretical discussions on public trust in news, relational jour...
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Changes in Journalism in Politicized Media Systems: A Study on Newspapers in Poland and Hungary Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, Kinga Adamczewska
This paper comparatively investigates variations in journalistic role performances in politicized media systems. Poland and Hungary are included in the quantitative content analysis as illustrative...
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Media (De)concentration and Editorial Cross-Media Self-Promotion: Evidence from Flanders Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Jana Goyvaerts, Jonathan Hendrickx, Sarah Vis, Ike Picone, Benjamin De Cleen
This article asks what the impact is of ownership concentration and deconcentration on editorial cross-media selfpromotion. Zooming in on two significant ownership changes in the small and highly c...
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Emotional Dimensions of the Adoption of Audience Analytics: Results from a Survey of Austrian Journalists Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Kim Löhmann, Folker Hanusch
Audience analytics have been a vital development in the digital transformation of the journalistic field over the past decades. Journalism scholarship has paid ample attention to this, albeit mostl...
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Genre Conventions of Fact-Checks: Topics, Style, and Form of Fact-Checking in Two IFCN-Certified News Media Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kim Verhoeven, Steve Paulussen, Gert-Jan de Bruijn
Despite fact-checking often being described as a new genre of journalism, the number of studies focusing on genre conventions in fact-checking is limited. This study examines fact-check conventions...
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Covering the Distant Other: Discursive Construction of the Makoko Community in Nigeria as “Venice of Africa” Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Munachim Amah
Journalistic texts are sites for the construction of meaning. Through their work, journalists construct, enact, and sustain identities and social realities. In particular, journalistic representati...
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The Role of Minority Political Groups in the Dissemination of Disinformation. The Case of Spain Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Elias Said-Hung, Marta Sánchez-Esparza, Daria Mottareale-Calavese
This study seeks to understand better the role played by minority political groups in Spain in promoting disinformation on Twitter. The study applies statistical analysis and topic modelling to pos...
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Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Michał Tkaczyk
Evidence on how journalistic role performance changes in time and in relation to which factors is largely missing. This study investigates the presence of civic, infotainment, and service roles in ...
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How the Pandemic Shaped the Digital Skills of Journalists in Turkey Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Eylem Yanardağoğlu, Esra Ercan Bilgiç
Digitalization process has been changing the work patterns and practices of media professionals all over the world in the last decade. This research focuses on perceptions of journalists in Turkey ...
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Assessing Physical and Digital News Spaces: Placemaking in Global South Journalism Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ruth Moon, Tryfon Boukouvidis, Fanny Ramirez
Homepages and front pages are both important places in the news production world. And yet, we know little about how these differ in contexts beyond Western Europe and the United States. This study ...
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Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Susanna Pagiotti, Anna Stanziano, Marco Mazzoni, Roberto Mincigrucci
The literature comparing journalistic roles around the world highlights different ways of understanding journalistic work across countries. One of the main differences in conceptualising concerns t...
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“Whether That’s Truly Objective Journalism, Probably Not”. Professional Retreatism and Professional Dilemmas When Reporting on Muslims Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Nadia Haq
Professional retreatism can be seen as a central concept in guiding journalistic role performance. It relates to how journalists distance themselves from the stories they produce by drawing upon pr...
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Political Communication and Mediatic Urgency: An Ethnographic Approach of Portuguese Parliamentary Journalists at Work Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 João Mineiro
What kinds of relationships exist between Members of Parliament (MPs), journalists, and spin doctors in Parliament, and how do these relationships influence the performance and representation of po...
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Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Abera Yenework Kebede, Adem Chanie Ali, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
This study explores contemporary journalists’ autonomy and role in the Ethiopian contested media practice by taking journalists working in Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). A qualitative research app...
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News Framing and Platform Affordances in Social Media Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sabina Civila, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando
Framing refers to the construction of narratives with specific intentions, emphasizing certain aspects of the story and omitting or obscuring others, thus affecting how audiences perceive social re...
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“You Feel Like You Don’t Have the Freedom to Do Your Work”: Exploring Fijian Women Journalists’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment Journalism Practice (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Folker Hanusch, Shailendra Singh, Birte Leonhardt, Geraldine Panapasa
The topic of violence against women in journalism has received growing attention in scholarship, especially in terms of digital forms of harassment. At the same time, many women journalists continu...