Increased exposure to election news does not cause voters to switch parties, write Sabine Geers, Linda Bos and Claes H. De Vreese, all of University of Amsterdam. The authors analysed … Continued

A conference entitled “The Mediatization of Time: New perspectives on media, data and temporality” is calling for paper proposals. The event will take place in Bremen, Germany, on the 7th … Continued

Twitter has agenda setting power over other media, but Twitter’s news agenda is generally set by accounts of political and media actors, write Raymond A. Harder, Julie Sevenans and Peter … Continued

Economic news published on Twitter by the Reuters and Bloomberg agencies cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index (DJI) to fluctuate, write Nadine Strauß, Rens Vliegenthart and Piet … Continued

On week 20 the following publications have come to our attention: Innovative Journalism in Latin America Edited by Teresa Mioli and Ismael Nafría Published by Knight Center for Journalism in … Continued

Marcus Funk, of Sam Hunt State University, US, has analysed 12 American podcasts to find out how news and community values manifest in them. Some of the podcasts in Funk’s … Continued

The annual conference of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is now accepting contribution proposals. The event will take place between the 10th and 12th of January 2018 … Continued

Are traditional journalism principles still alive and well in today’s local TV newsrooms? ask Keren Henderson and Michael Cremedas, both of Syracuse University. The authors surveyed 348 local television journalists … Continued

Content generated by mobile phones, video and stills images, were expected to have a revolutionary impact on broadcast journalism in the mid-2000s. Dramatic news events such as the Asian Tsunami and London … Continued

Sandrine Boudana and Elad Segev, both of Tel Aviv University, explore the use of provocation narratives and how those narratives introduce political bias in international news. They aim to demonstrate that … Continued