New study by Xi Cui, of College of Charleston, and Yu Liu, of Florida International University, explores journalists’ curatorial practices with regard to linked and embedded sources in the online … Continued

Young adult audiences have increasingly gravitated toward online sources of news and information, write Dunja Antunovic, of Bradley University, Patrick Parsons, of Pennsylvania State University and Tanner R. Cooke, of … Continued

The rise of populist anti-EU parties was widely reported by British press during The European Parliament election of 2014. Did that coverage show citizens the character of these parties and where … Continued

Conventions regarding how to credit algorithmically produced news stories are various and incoherent, write Tal Montal and Zvi Reich, both of Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The authors interviewed … Continued

The news headlines used in BBC’s flagship news program, BBC News at Ten, are designed not only to summarize, but also to stoke interest, write Martin Montgomery, of University of … Continued

The Norwegian press council (Pressens Faglige Utvalg, PFU) bases most of its rulings on a tradition of “discourse ethics”, writes Svein Brurås, of Volda University College. The author investigated the … Continued

The research project Media, Conflict and Democracy (MeCoDem) has published a new policy brief document. The brief draws together the results of two rounds of interviews with both journalists working … Continued

Under the title “Books of the week”, JRN will list new, relevant publications that have recently become available. Click the title of the book for further information on the publisher’s … Continued

A new Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) fellowship paper on crowdfunded journalism has been published. Its author, Zichao Liu, is a senior writer at the Southern People’s … Continued

Both the French France 24 and the German Deutsche Welle depicted the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram in accordance with the countries’ foreign policies, write Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi, of Monash University, … Continued