Karen Lumsden, of Loughborough University, and Heather Morgan, of University of Aberdeen studied the framing of trolling in British newspaper reports. Qualitative document analysis of 175 newspaper reports of trolling from British national … Continued

UNESCO has released a study of changes that impact on legal frameworks that support protection of journalistic sources in the digital age. The author of the study is Julie Posetti, of University … Continued

In their new article Maria Haigh, Thomas Haigh and Nadine I. Kozak, all of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, document the work practices of StopFake, an Ukrainian volunteer fact-checking organization.  The authors frame the study within … Continued

The way journalists perceive global poverty has “little predictive power” over how their stories frame poverty, write Mirjam Vossen and Baldwin van Gorp, both of University of Leuven, with Lau … Continued

Fans of a losing sports team will perceive news reports of the loss as biased, Youngju Kim and Andrew C. Billings, both of University of Alabama, write. The authors conducted … Continued

A one-day symposium on the BBC’s local radio audiences is calling for paper proposals. The event will be held in Leicester, UK, on the 8th of November 2017. The symposium … Continued

It is more common for working journalists to think academic research is important to journalism than it is for journalism educators, write John Wihbey, of Northeastern University, and Mark Coddington, … Continued

American newspapers usually mention the female nipple only in negative connections, write Mary Angela Bock, Paromita Pain and JhuCin Jhang, all of University of Texas at Austin. The authors analysed … Continued

On week 19 the following publications have come to our attention: News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City Edited by Linda Steiner and Silvio Waisbord Published by Routledge 272 … Continued

The Chinese state media uses ritualistic framing to distract public attention from the social issues related to the annual Spring Festival homecoming, writes Meng Li, of Loyola Marymount University. The … Continued