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Research of August 2025

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in August 2025 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.

PublishedTitleAuthor(s)Journal publisher
2025-08-01The Ritual of Objectivity vs. the Ritual of Emotionality: Emotion Display and the Credibility of Virtual NewscastersYicong Guan, Shuyi Pan & Yi MouJournalism Studies
2025-08-01“Why don’t they ask me about my work?”: A study of sexism inside and outside television sport newsrooms in SpainLaura Benedicto-Melero & Azahara CañedoFeminist Media Studies
2025-08-01Influence of PR Sources’ Payments on Journalistic Integrity: Roles of Salary Satisfaction and Tolerance Attitude/BehaviorSylvester Senyo Ofori-Parku & Paul KoomsonJournalism Practice
2025-08-02Perceptions and expectations of constructive journalism in risk contexts: Insights from Chinese lockdown period during COVID-19Xiaojing Li,
Keyang Zhao
Journalism
2025-08-03Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism in Intermedia Competition: A Conjoint Analysis of Online News Users in the Austrian Market
Daniel O’Brien, Christian Zabel & Frank Lobigs
Digital Journalism
2025-08-03International influence on radio and family planning communication in Kenya: an historical assessmentJoy Elizabeth Hayes & David B. LomoywaraContinuum
2025-08-03Investigative Journalism and AI-Driven Subterfuge in Countries with Limited Press Freedom in East AfricaGregory GondweJournalism Practice
2025-08-04It Sounds Important: Examining the Effects of Background Music and Popularity Cues on Evaluations of Risk-Related Short-Form News VideosCong Lin & Na TaMass Communication and Society
2025-08-04Negotiating Credibility Perceptions as a Female Sideline Reporter: The Lasting Impact of Charissa Thompson’s CommentsSean R. Sadri, Nicholas R. Buzzelli & Jessica L. PayneJournalism Practice
2025-08-05The Impact of Concurrent and Sequential Media Multitasking on Performance: The Role of Task Relevance and Working MemoryWeijian Zhong, Xiaozhe Wang, Yan Sun & Yan LiuMedia Psychology
2025-08-05How was the Texas SB8 abortion bill reported in the news? A content analysis of headlines across news organizationsCamille Paraiso Alejandro,Livia de Queiroz Brito,Tianan Lin,Jillian Drummond,Yaxian Xiong &Leticia BodeAtlantic Journal of Communication
2025-08-05The Framing of Counter-Political Metaphors in Radio Freedom Songs: An Afrocentric AnalysisMopailo Thomas Thatelo & Nkosinathi Leonard SelekaneAfrican Journalism Studies
2025-08-05The Insistent Image: The Photojournalistic GIF as a Storytelling Form in Online NewsSara KopelmanJournalism Studies
2025-08-05Journalists “Attagged”: The @-tag as a Bonding Tool for “Supercharged Critical Publics”Marloes Geboers, Tomás Dodds, Mark Boukes & Eirliani Abdul RahmanJournalism Practice
2025-08-06Extending news values: Rethinking positivity through the lens of empowering journalismYinglei He,
Sihang Wu
Journalism
2025-08-06Co-categorizing Chinese “medicine girls”: a multimodal membership categorization analysis of trans women’s representations in a news videoQijun SongFeminist Media Studies
2025-08-07Navigating the freelance life: How perceptions of newswork mediate work-related stressors of self-employed journalistsErwin van ‘t Hof,
Mark Deuze
Journalism
2025-08-07News is not made for me: A novel scale for measuring audience alienation from news and its outcomesCourtney D Tabor,
Antonis Kalogeropoulos,
Patrícia Rossini
Journalism
2025-08-07Media use, cultural orientations and support for radical right-wing parties: comparing nine European countriesMarc Verboord, Riie Heikkilä, Susanne Janssen & Semi PurhonenInformation, Communication & Society
2025-08-08Towards the Liberation from Capitalist Business Models: The De-capitalisation of Journalism and Communication StudiesManfred KnochetripleC
2025-08-08“Old WASPs” and “middle-class white ladies”: what columnists’ self-identification says about diversity in Canadian newsroomsSonya Fatah,
Asmaa Malik,
Davide Mastracci
Journalism
2025-08-09The role of exposure to violence in citizens’ relative trust in media types for conflict-related information and newsAysenur Dal,
Seden Akcinaroglu,
Efe Tokdemir
Media, War & Conflict
2025-08-10Vaccine diplomacy in the era of covid: A framing analysis of news coverage from China, Russia, the U.K., and the U.SAnna Young & Foluke OmosunAtlantic Journal of Communication
2025-08-11Communicating security threats: Emergency politics, the media, and the role of the publicMinos-Athanasios Karyotakis & Virpi SalojärviThe Communication Review
2025-08-11Why Race Reporting—and Studying It—MattersSue RobinsonJournalism & Communication Monographs
2025-08-11Evaluating 21st-Century Newspaper Race Reporting Projects: From Social Responsibility to Corporate Responsibility to RaceGeorge L. Daniels,
Gabriel B. Tait
Journalism & Communication Monographs
2025-08-11Framing of the wartime economic situation in Polish business journalism during the Russian–Ukrainian conflictRafał Krzysztof Matusiak,
Robert Radziej
Media, War & Conflict
2025-08-11Navigating beyond places: The significance of navigation tools in everyday media useChristine Lohmeier,
Lisa Schulze,
Johannes Schöning,
Gian-Luca Savino
New Media & Society
2025-08-11Framing of the wartime economic situation in Polish business journalism during the Russian–Ukrainian conflictRafał Krzysztof Matusiak,
Robert Radziej
Media, War & Conflict
2025-08-11Contagious Smiles on Screen. The Role of Emotional Alignment of TV PresentersEmma RoderoJournal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
2025-08-11Whither China?: Chinese communication research at the new conjunctureBingchun Meng, Lin Zhang & Elaine YuanChinese Journal of Communication
2025-08-11Exploring the Relationship Between Exposure to Media Depictions of Undocumented Immigrants, Identity Management, and Undocumented Immigrants’ Family Communication ProfilesJennifer A. Kam,
Dana Mastro,
Dina Naji Arch,
Kyungin Kim,
Monica Cornejo
Communication Research
2025-08-11Paper and Screen: An Analysis of the Multiplatform Journalism of Elle Brasil MagazineAmanda Ferreira, Gabrielle Pacheco Jost, Vanessa ValiatiMagazine Studies
2025-08-11Social Justice in College Media: How Campus Magazines Report, Reflect, and Respond to Police Killing of Breonna TaylorCarol Terracina-HartmanMagazine Studies
2025-08-11Cosmopolitanism in print: The Atlantic vs. The EconomistFrancisco Seone PerézMagazine Studies
2025-08-11The MAGA and the ZineTim HolmesMagazine Studies
2025-08-11Much More than Paper: The Magazine as a Universal Communication PlatformCarla Rodrigues Cardoso, Ana Figueiras, Ilo AlexandreMagazine Studies
2025-08-11Cover and Table of ContentsCarla Rodrigues CardosoMagazine Studies
2025-08-12Fast and furious: Temporal patterns of incivility in online commentsBen Clarke,
William Hedley Thompson
New Media & Society
2025-08-12Objectively Engaged: The Discursive Constitution of Latin American Fact-Checking Mission Statements and MethodsRegina CazzamattaJournalism Practice
2025-08-13Platform Politics: Commonwealth Magazine and the Mediatization of ESG in TaiwanHong-Chi Shiau, Yen-Chieh LoMagazine Studies
2025-08-13Meta (Facebook) and US national security data requests: A study in media imperialismShane Terence Miller Media, War & Conflict
2025-08-13“Migration of Authority” and Algorithm Training: Journalistic Roles in the Face of ChatGPTJan Kreft, Barbara Cyrek, Monika Boguszewicz-Kreft & Mariana FydrychJournalism Studies
2025-08-13Reluctant Journalism: How Indian Journalists Navigate the Role Conception-Performance Gap in a Polarized Media LandscapeAnilesh Kumar & Prashanth BhatJournalism Practice
2025-08-13AI Divides in Newsrooms? How Journalists in the Low Countries Use and Perceive Generative AIStephanie D’haeseleer, Kristin Van Damme, Hannes Cools, Sarah Van Leuven & Tom EvensJournalism Practice
2025-08-13Exploring intersections of media, law, communication and crimeLauren O’Mahony & Greg MartinCommunication Research and Practice
2025-08-14Digitalization of Media Work and Resocialization in the Indian Urdu Daily InquilabArshad AmanullahJournalism Practice
2025-08-15‘Hook’-shaped polarization: how conservative super-commenters shape conspiracy beliefs and news engagement across the political spectrumYijia Erika Zhu & Sebastian ScherrInformation, Communication & Society
2025-08-15Appalachia Strong: Joy in Reporting Appalachian Recovery from Hurricane HeleneGrace Ficara, Grace Smith, Ella Hackett, Teodora Tavares, Jin Young Hwang, Ava Jochims, Monica Crawford, Volha Kananovich & Gregory Perreault Journalism Practice
2025-08-15Analysing media framing of the farmer–herder conflict in Nigeria: Combining topic modelling and Qualitative Content AnalysisDickson Ogunkunle,
Stephen Odebiyi,
Stefanie Walter,
Alice Beazer,
Isaac Bravo,
Sean Palicki
Media, War & Conflict
2025-08-17How Single vs. Multiple-Statement Fact-Checking and Partisan Identity Influence Individuals’ Trust in Counter-Attitudinal Political Fact-ChecksHuu Dat Tran, Pham Phuong Uyen Diep & Soheil KafiliveyjuyehCommunication Studies
2025-08-17How media ownership mattersAnya SchiffrinJournalism
2025-08-17“Free our Sisters:” coverage of female political prisoners in The Black Panther newspaperRachel GrantFeminist Media Studies
2025-08-18Unity Amidst Chaos: Bridging Behaviors and the Role of Media Elites to Overcome Polarization in Polycrisis EnvironmentsAurken SierraJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Does It Still Make Sense to Talk About Journalistic Truth?Ana AzurmendiJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Integrity as Solution to the Situationist Challenge to Virtue Ethics Journalism?Bastiaan VanackerJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Communication as Integration: A New Theoretical Starting Point for Journalism EthicsManuel Martín Algarra, Jordi Rodríguez-Virgili & Marta TorregrosaJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Editor’s Note: Visions and TransitionsRyan J. ThomasJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Introduction to the Special Issue: A Neo-Aristotelian Take on Journalism and PoliticsSandra L. Borden & Mónica CodinaJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Ethics Beyond the Newsroom: Ethical Media Engagement in Times of Conflict and DivisionYayu FengJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-18Sex for grades: a commentary on a BBC undercover documentary in West AfricaH. Leslie Steeves, Audrey S. Gadzekpo & Ivy Mingyase FofieFeminist Media Studies
2025-08-18Of Paano-sexuals and pansexuals: media representation of queer Ghanaians and queer self-representation through alternative mediaEdem AbbeyquayeFeminist Media Studies
2025-08-18Networks of War/Peace Journalism on Twitter. Comparing Inter-Individual Differences in German Political Journalists’ Framing of the Russian-Ukrainian WarChristian Nuernbergk & Nina Fabiola SchumacherJournalism Studies
2025-08-18Deepfakes and Journalism: Normative Considerations and ImplicationsPatric Raemy, Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Ötting, Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Alexander Godulla & Manuel PuppisJournalism Studies
2025-08-18What “Digital Literacies” Must Journalists Have? Unpacking How Journalists Define and Practice News Literacy, Data Literacy, and Algorithmic and AI Literacy in the Digital AgeShangyuan WuJournalism Studies
2025-08-18There’s No Smoke Without Fire: Legacy Media and Junk News Discourses on the Amazon FiresDébora Salles, Rose Marie Santini, Priscila Medeiros, Lorena Regattieri & Charbelly EstrellaJournalism Practice
2025-08-18Explaining the Practice Acceptance of the Solutions Journalism Approach through an Analysis of Journalists’ Adherence to Solutions Journalism RigorsSerena Miller, Soo Young Shin & Jennifer Brannock CoxJournalism Practice
2025-08-18Amplifying the News: An Analysis of the Factors Driving Republication and Facebook Engagement with NewsAlice Fleerackers, Ines Engelmann , Michelle Riedlinger , Kim Osman ,Laura Vodden ,Katharina Esau ,Arjun Srinivas & Axel BrunsJournalism Practice
2025-08-19YouTube as a narrative battlefield: Brazilian social media influencers and the Russian war in UkraineNuppu Pelevina & Virpi SalojärviThe Communication Review
2025-08-19Tolerating Toxicity: How Incivility and Belief Congruence in User-Generated Comments Affect Readers’ Motivational Activation and Information IntakeDi Zhu & Sungkyoung LeeJournal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
2025-08-19A Typology of Journalists’ Personal Emotions. Navigating Between Useful and Cumbersome EmotionsValérie ManasterskiJournalism Practice
2025-08-19Reintroducing the Journalist’s Body and Emotions in Metajournalistic Discourse: The Case of What I Didn’t SayAnna LuoJournalism Studies
2025-08-19Decolonial Agents in La Coyuntura — Narrated Roles of Independent Media Journalists in Bolivia and PeruIasmim Amiden dos Santos & Bruno TakahashiJournalism Studies
2025-08-19Solutions-oriented Framing and Responsibility Attribution in Urban Youth Crime: Effects on Policy Support and the Mediating Role of Emotions and Social Inequality Perception
Gyo Hyun Koo & Renita Coleman
Journalism Studies
2025-08-19Preferred refugees: Revisiting stereotypes of Muslim refugees and new depictions of Ukrainian displaced people from gender and racial perspectivesWoochul KimMedia, War & Conflict
2025-08-20The Impact of Political Ideology on News Consumption: The Mediating Role of Trust and the Moderating Role of Interest in PoliticsClaudia Mellado & Constanza GajardoMass Communication and Society
2025-08-20“I Empathize With Them”: How Newsroom Leadership Assesses Mental Health and Hostility Toward Their JournalistsKaitlin C. MillerDigital Journalism
2025-08-20Adapting to crisis: A comparative study of journalism practices and role conceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in EuropeJoy Jenkins,
Darina Sarelska
Journalism
2025-08-20The power of naming in a time of conflictOlga BoginskayaMedia, War & Conflict
2025-08-20Librarians, Dentists, Journalists, and Undergrads: A Case Study Implementing a Journalism Teaching Hospital Within Marginalized CommunitiesLaura Moorhead,
Eileen G. Harrington,
Michelle McQuistan,
Anubhuti Shukla,
Esperanza Angeles Martinez Mier,
Sheryl Syme,
Michelle Moncrieffe Foreman
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
2025-08-20Building Trust, Fostering Belonging: Combating Student Burnout in Journalism and Mass CommunicationBitt Moon,
Marquita Smith,
Debora Wenger
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
2025-08-21Shouts and Whispers: The Gamson Hypothesis, Media Reliance, and Belief in 2020 Election Conspiracy TheoriesThomas J. Johnson,
Barbara K. Kaye,
Chang Sup Park
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2025-08-21“Immune to Injunctions of Power”: How Brazilian Newspapers Use Metajournalistic Discourse to Defend Journalistic AuthorityGiulia Sbaraini FontesJournalism Practice
2025-08-21Source and Message Effects on Reactance to Conflict Reporting: Evidence from Hong KongJingyi Pu & Xinzhi ZhangJournalism Practice
2025-08-21Housing News and the Enrolment of Publics into the Asset Economy in Aotearoa New ZealandAeron DavisJournalism Studies
2025-08-22Not a Bioweapon, or is it? The Role of Perceived Threats and Media Use in COVID-19 MisperceptionsNoëlle S. Lebernegg,
Julia Partheymüller,
Jakob-Moritz Eberl,
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
The International Journal of Press/Politics
2025-08-22Two Percent at the Picket Line: Media Coverage of U.S. Union Fights for Streaming ResidualsDaniel Nielsen,
Amanda Cote,
Brandon Harris
Television & New Media
2025-08-22The concept of Katechon as a war narrative: Four Russian ideologues’ interpretations of the ‘special military operation’Santeri KytönevaMedia, War & Conflict
2025-08-22“Media Pressure is What Makes Law Enforcement Move”: Insights from Co-victims About the Positive Impacts of True Crime Media AttentionDanielle C. Slakoff & Kelli S. BolingMass Communication and Society
2025-08-22Defining premium advocacy documentary TV: analyzing the coexistence of popular feminism and care-based feminist advocacy in Hulu’s Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein (2019)Amber HardimanFeminist Media Studies
2025-08-22Streaming Competition Between Broadcasters’ Content Libraries and SVOD Services: Relative Advantage, Substitutability, and Their Impact on UsageChristian Zabel, Verena Telkmann, Reinhard E. Kunz & Daniel O’BrienInternational Journal on Media Management
2025-08-23Not all fact-checkers are created equal: how fact-checkers’ political bias influences users’ fact-checking behaviorFei Shen, Mulin Jiang & Wenting YuChinese Journal of Communication
2025-08-25Negotiating news seeking and news avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Expanding coping theoryChang Sup ParkJournalism
2025-08-25I want to help too! Information demands on Instagram during the media coverage of the 2024 Chile mega-firesFootnote
Constanza Ortega-GunckelThe Communication Review
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2025-08-25Negotiating news seeking and news avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic: Expanding coping theoryChang Sup ParkJournalism
2025-08-26Reconceptualizing Journalism as a Care-Based Institution: The Historical Black Press as an Exemplar of Care EthicsJoseph P. JonesJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-26Are Televised Presidential Debates Good for Democracy?
Kat Williams & Scott R. StroudJournal of Media Ethics
2025-08-26Transformative journalisms and the seductive power of imagery in digital climate niche journalismSylvia Hayes,
Saffron O’Neill
Journalism
2025-08-26Combatting the persuasive effects of misinformation: Forewarning versus debunking revisitedDian van Huijstee,
Ivar Vermeulen,
Peter Kerkhof,
Ellen Droog
New Media & Society
2025-08-26Pixels of Prejudice: Decoding Embedded Biases in AI-Generated News Imagery and Their Implications for Visual Journalism—Toward an Algorithmic-Mediated Visual FramingMenna Elhosary Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2025-08-26Framing Across the Fractures: Visual Framing and Social Media Engagement with Indigenous Environmental OrganizationsRyan N. Comfort,
Kain Eller
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2025-08-26AI in the Newsroom: Does the Public Trust Automated Journalism and Will They Pay for It?Andreas Nanz ,Alice Binder & Jörg MatthesJournalism Studies
2025-08-26Generative AI and the Future of News: Examining AI's Agency, Power, and AuthorityAllen Munoriyarwa & Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-SantosJournalism Practice
2025-08-27Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States: An Assessment of Local News Census ResearchRegina G. Lawrence & Courtney TaborJournalism Studies
2025-08-27Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News ConsumptionAndrés Scherman, Pedro Fierro, Yuanliang ShanMedia and Communication
2025-08-27Concurrently fading away and strengthening: A cross-country comparison of foreign and local news beatsLenka Waschková Císařová,
Sarah Van Leuven,
Milda Malling,
Zvi Reich,
Dominique Marchetti,
Archana Kumari,
Rubén Arnoldo González,
Sergio Splendore,
Lada Trifonova Price,
Mark Coddington,
Claudia Mellado,
Florian Wintterlin,
Pantelis Vatikiotis,
Avshalom Ginosar,
Antoine Faure,
Leticia Hernández
Journalism
2025-08-27Making strides: Athletes’ perception of female sports journalists’ workAnna Hrbackova,
Alice Nemcova Tejkalova
Journalism
2025-08-27Challenging implicit gender stereotypes in Italian news through languageMonia Azzalini Journalism
2025-08-27“I Saw a Modern-Day Lynching”: Black Journalists’ Experiences of Trauma #ReportingWhileBlackDenetra Walker Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2025-08-27The truth game: Verification factors behind fact-checkers’ selection decisionsRegina Cazzamatta Journalism
2025-08-28Beyond the Binary: Reimagining Gender Fluidity in Media RepresentationsUgochukwu Zacky Eze,
Chinwendu Judith Zacky-Eze,
Ozioma Patience Nwokedi
Journal of Communication Inquiry
2025-08-28Media and Human Suffering: Foundations, Ruptures, and ContinuitiesMunachim AmahJournal of Communication Inquiry
2025-08-28Combatting the Misinformation Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Characteristics and Effectiveness of Media Literacy InterventionsEllen Droog,
Ivar Vermeulen,
Dian van Huijstee,
Davit Harutyunyan,
Santiago Tejedor,
Cristina Pulido
Communication Research
2025-08-28Media and Ambivalence| Media and Ambivalence: The Value of a Quandary—IntroductionBarbie Zelizer, Nelson RibeiroInternational Journal of Communication
2025-08-28A streaming generation? Interrogating assumptions about young-adult audiences, content discovery, and engagement with broadcast televisionAshleigh Dharmawardhana, Ramon Lobato & Alexa ScarlataContinuum
2025-08-29Children, media, and the state: envisioning a good childhood in a good societyJulian Sefton-Green & Xinyu ZhaoCommunication Research and Practice
2025-08-29Rethinking journalistic autonomy in the algorithmic era: toward context-aware, value-driven, and human-centred research into journalistic AIJoanne Kuai & T. J. ThomsonCommunication Research and Practice
2025-08-29Strategic Narratives on Social Media: How Information Environments Shape the Russian-Ukrainian War Discourse in Seven European CountriesKostiantyn Yanchenko, Edda Humprecht
International Journal of Communication
2025-08-29Examining News Media Use and Trust in Public Institutions in Kenya: The Moderating Role of Perceived Corruption and Political FreedomBingbing Zhang, Kevin C. Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, David LomoywaraInternational Journal of Communication
2025-08-29Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schemaYeorang BakConvergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2025-08-29Integrating AI in Video Journalism Education: Current Trends and ChallengesDebora Wenger,
Iveta Imre
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
2025-08-29The “NextGen” of Subsumption: The Adoption of ATSC 3.0 by US Public BroadcastersChristopher Ali,
Sydney L. Forde
Television & New Media
2025-08-30Pricing, Design and Cultivation – Conceptual Tools for the Normative Assessment of Fairness in the Age of Media PlatformizationJonathan Kropf, Jörn Lamla & Markus UhlmannDigital Journalism
2025-08-31EditorialTaberez Ahmed Neyazi The International Journal of Press/Politics