During the GamerGate controversy in 2014 and 2015, gaming journalists had to manage a debate on two fronts: defending gaming journalism and remediating attacks on women. Gregory Perreault of Appalachian … Continued

Afghan journalism is “captured”, or forced to work for non-journalistic interests, by a number of methods and actors, write Jeannine E. Relly and Margaret Zanger, both of University of Arizona. … Continued

Four times as many males as females appeared as experts on flagship television and radio news programmes in the United Kingdom as of the early 2010s, write Lis Howell and Jane … Continued

Media subsidies are not a neutral instrument, but rather a political tool for achieving certain policy objectives, writes Aske Kammer, of The IT University of Copenhagen. They also serve to … Continued

Experts’ texts about the future of journalism are fairly thin on actual predictions, write Wilson Lowrey and Zhou Shan, both of University of Alabama. The authors analysed a total of … Continued

What happens to trust in media when individuals are present at the site of the event, and can evaluate the reports based on their own experiences? Oren Livio and Jonathan … Continued

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School announced a call for research project proposals for spring 2017. The proposals should fall within four areas of inquiry: Computation, algorithms and automated … Continued

Marc Ziegele and Pablo B. Jost, both of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, investigate the effects of a comment moderation strategy that recommends news outlets to respond publicly to uncivil … Continued

Journalists and journalism teachers frame narrative journalism as “a dangerous game” that is still necessary for journalism, writes Kobie van Krieken and José Sanders, both of Radboud University Nijmegen. The … Continued

In their new article Brett Hutchins, of Monash University and Raymond Boyle, of University of Glasgow, employed Barbie Zelizer’s concept of “community of practice” to emphasise the existence and significance of shared practices within … Continued