Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in May 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
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Pushing and Pulling: How News Organizations Frame Push Notifications to Capture Audience Attention
Push notifications and their strategic framing, an understudied subject, were examined by Jeremy Saks from Old Dominion University and Ashley Hopkins from California State University, Long Beach. They looked at … Continued
Journalists’ Perceptions of Ownership Change and its Impact on Journalistic Content and Work
The impact of ownership change and its effect on content and work, based on the perception of journalists, was studied by Ville J.E. Manninen and Lauri Haapanen from University of … Continued
Coping as a competency: A typology of journalists and news creators work on platforms
The topic on how news content creators and journalists navigate their professional lives amid platformized labor was looked at by Valérie Bélair-Gagnon and Errol Salamon from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, … Continued
Actors behind deepfakes, the associated threats, and the proposed solutions were analyzed by Taufiq Ahmad, Rauf Arif, Muhammad Ittefaq, and Seyeon Park, all from University of Maryland, using 308 news … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in April 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
The Crooked Pictures in Our Heads: Partisan Cable Coverage of Congress
Partisan cable networks such as Fox News and MSNBC were analysed in an article by Adam J. Schiffer from Texas Christian University. Particularly, the author analyzed how and why members … Continued
This article dealing with identity, memory, and proximity and their effect on reporting in the context of Cameroon and Nigeria was written by Edwin Nfor from University of Jyväskylä and … Continued
Turkish political journalism was looked at in an article by Sarphan Uzunoğlu from Izmir University of Economics, from the viewpoint of looking at the terms trolling and astroturfing, which were … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in March 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
When Software Becomes the Newsroom: Journalists and the Loss of Organizational Connections
Virtual newsrooms, and the decision to turn newsrooms virtual, was covered in an article by Patrick Ferrucci from University of Colorado-Boulder. The viewpoint was that of media sociology and the … Continued
The article about practices in digital journalism in Hungary by Tamas Tofalvy from Budapest University of Technology and Economics used the news portal Telex.hu as a case study to look … Continued
Folk Theories of News Bias: How Audiences Perceive, Interpret, and Experience It
The article examining folk theories of news bias by Seth C. Lewis from University of Oregon, Nick Mathews University of Missouri, and Jon Benedik A. Bunquin from University of Philippines … Continued
The article dealing with media coverage of two countries participating in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), Azerbaijan and Sweden, by Rashad Mammadov from University of Mississippi, utilized Media Influences Theory … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in February 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
Trump’s first month through the eyes of political cartoonists
Political cartoons represent a traditional medium of discourse often shared in newspapers and capable of shaping media perceptions. The article by Manel Mefteh from University of Sfax, Tunisia, analyzed political … Continued
The article dealing with fact-checking in Venezuela was written by Regina Cazzamatta from Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology and Augusto Santos from University of Erfurt examined the challenges Venezuelan fact-checkers face … Continued
Not Censored, But Silenced: Evidence from Local Journalists in German Far-Right Strongholds
Not Censored, But Silenced: Evidence from Local Journalists in German Far-Right Strongholds For the first article we are covering from 2026 is this article by Patrick Peltz from European Centre … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in January 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
For the last article from last year, we looked at this article by Kathryn Shine from Curtin University in Perth, Australia, which investigated the news sources’ attitudes and experiences of … Continued
Implications of a Decreasing Sense of Safety on Lebanese Journalists’ Role Perceptions
The late 2025 article about Lebanese journalists and press freedom violations and their implications for their professional roles was written by Sally Farhat and Linda Steiner from Phillip Merrill College … Continued
The December 2025 article in Media, War & Conflict by Eslam Abdelraouf from Sultan Qaboos University examined the framing of Pro-Palestine campus protests in the US, at Columbia University, in … Continued
The December article from American Journalism by Henry. H Prown from University of Alberta analyzed the atrocity propaganda by the American Communist media – Daily Worker – in service of … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in December 2025 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
Heat in Real Time, Climate in Retrospect: Mapping Seasonal Gap in Japanese Heatwave Journalism
The article from last month by Kunhao Yang from Shibaura Institute of Technology and Mengyuan Fub from Waseda University deals with Japanese media news narratives about heatwaves, and how these … Continued
Now for the first post since the update, about chatbots in fact-checking, from China. The November article by Zehang Xie from Nanyang Technological University, Hui Hui from Shanghai Jiao Tong … Continued
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Making Sense of Climate Change: The Challenges and Promises of Embodied Climate Journalism
The November article by Trish Audette-Longo from Carleton University looked at how journalists utilized their bodies and drew from their senses in climate reporting published in Canada between 2019 and … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in November 2025 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.
































