The journal Journalism Practice has published a special issue directed at working journalists, edited by Bonnie Brennen and Robert E. Gutsche Jr.

The open access theme issue showcases research that has been distilled and revised for a more general audience outside academia. It includes 28 texts related to studies published earlier in the journals Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, and Digital Journalism. All the essays include a link to the original research that is also openly accessible.

The special issue focuses on four main areas of journalism research. Read the introduction to the issue, and browse all the articles behind this link.

Here is a  complete list of the articles included in the issue:

• Introduction: Journalism Research in Practice: Strategies, Innovation, and Approaches to Change by Bonnie Brennen & Robert E. Gutsche Jr.
• Hero or Anti-Hero? Journalists and their Stories by Scott A. Eldridge II
• Journalists’ Perceptions of Mass Shooting Coverage and Factors Influencing Those Perceptions by Nicole Smith Dahmen, Jesse Abdenour & Karen McIntyre
• Media Criticism from the Far-Right: Attacking from Many Angles by Tine Ustad Figenschou & Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk
• Public Media and Marginalized Publics: Online and Offline Engagement Strategies and Local Storytelling Networks by Andrea Wenzel
• “Listen First, Then Ask!” Listening-based Journalistic Questioning Training Methods by Halliki Harro-Loit & Kadri Ugur
• “I Was Doing a Good Deed”: Exploring the Motivations of Photo Story Subjects in Granting Photojournalists Access by Brian P. McDermott, Tara M. Mortensen, Khadija Ejaz & Daniel D. Haun
• Is Journalism Going Global? Finding Answers in Quantitative Studies Employing the Concepts of the “Culture Peg” and the “Culture Link” by Miki Tanikawa
• Challenging Data-Driven Journalism by Renata Faria Brandão
• A Tale of Two Tragedies: Culpability and Innocence in American Journalism by Saif Shahin
• Five Things We Should Learn from the Messiness of Participation by Laura Ahva
• Disruptive Media Events: Balancing Editorial Control and Open Dissent in the Aftermath of Terror by Tine Ustad Figenschou & Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud
• Insights from a Comparative Study into Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms by Manuel Menke, Susanne Kinnebrock, Sonja Kretzschmar, Ingrid Aichberger, Marcel Broersma, Roman Hummel, Susanne Kirchhoff, Dimitri Prandner, Nelson Ribeiro & Ramón Salaverría
• Automating Complex News Stories by Capturing News Events as Data by David Caswell & Konstantin Dörr
• Remaining in Control with an Illusion of Interactivity: The Paternalistic Side of Data Journalism by Ester Appelgren
• “Don’t be Stupid.” The Role of Social Media Policies in Journalistic Boundary-Setting by Andrew Duffy & Megan Knight
• What a Story! Interpretative Rhetoric in News Media’s Facebook Updates by Yngve Benestad Hågvar
• How Engagement with Journalists on Twitter Reduces Public Perceptions of Media Bias by Trevor Diehl, Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu & Homero Gil de Zúñiga
• Fact-checkers as Entrepreneurs by Jane B. Singer
• Careers in Modern Professional Journalism: A Case Study of NYC Journalist Network Histories 2011–2015 by Allie Kosterich & Matthew S. Weber
• From Analog Dollars to Digital Dimes: A Look into the Performance of US Newspapers by Hsiang Iris Chyi & Ori Tenenboim
• The Two Faces of Janus: Web Analytics Companies and the Shifting Culture of News by Valerie Belair-Gagnon & Avery E. Holton
• Where Do Facts Matter? The Digital Paradox in Magazines’ Fact-checking Processes by Susan Currie Sivek & Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin
• Entrepreneurs and Idealists — Freelance Journalists at the Intersection of Autonomy and Constraints by Birgit Røe Mathisen
• Ethical Boundaries among Freelance Journalists by Birgit Røe Mathisen
• Total Eclipse of the Social: What Journalism Can Learn from the Fundamentals of Facebook by Kristy Hess & Robert E. Gutsche Jr
• Pushy or a Princess? Women Experts and UK Broadcast News by Lis Howell & Jane B. Singer
• Local Journalism and the Information Needs of Local Communities: Toward a Scalable Assessment Approach by Philip M. Napoli, Sarah Stonbely, Kathleen McCollough & Bryce Renninger
• Solutions Journalism: The Effects of Including Solution Information in News Stories About Social Problems by Karen McIntyre

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