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Research of October 2026

Journalism Research of October 2020

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in October 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.

PublishedTitleAuthor(s)Journal
2026-10-01Journalistic Routines and the Social Construction of Race: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Tyreek Hill Police EncounterJoseph P. JonesJournalism Studies
2026-10-01Staying Connected Under Dual Regulation: How Chinese Journalists and Journalism-Adjacent Media Workers Recalibrate Platform UseHe Chen, Fanbin ZengJournalism Practice
2026-10-01Press freedom in a post-authoritarian context: evolving challenges for Bangladeshi journalists after Sheikh HasinaManwar Hossain, Mahbubul Haque Bhuiyan, Muhammad Saurav Rahman, Md Saddam HossainJournalism
2026-10-01Algorithmic News Selection Under News Avoidance: Assessing News Values on Chinese Tiktok (Douyin)Jinhui Li, Wen ShiJournalism Studies
2026-10-01Introduction to the Themed Issue on AI in CommunicationJihyun Kim Review of Communication
2026-10-01Soft Power from the Outside, Career Choice from the Inside: Understanding Job Attractions of Chinese Media Expats in ThailandTucker Wang-Hai Journalism Studies
2026-10-01Media Repertoires in High-Choice Environments: Evidence from Brazil and the United Kingdom Using Survey and Passive Tracking DataCourtney D. Tabor,Antonis Kalogeropoulos & Tom NichollsMass Communication and Society
2026-10-01An analysis of the role of gender in news assignment processes of media organizations in TürkiyeSertaç KayaFeminist Media Studies
2026-10-01The Many Notions of Audience Engagement: A Scoping ReviewBernadette UthJournalism Studies
2026-10-02Black Lives Matter on the Ballot, in the Press: An Argument for Reporting the Long View of Contentious Solutions in Local JournalismBrad Limov. Martin J. Riedl, Melissa Santillana, Sharon StroverJournalism Studies
2026-10-04Effortful Control and Media Use from Birth to Age 5: A Meta-AnalysisMahmut Sami Gürdal, Meryem Şeyda Özcan, Cynthia L. Smith, Koeun ChoiMedia Psychology
2026-10-04EndnotesLori Amber RoessnerAmerican Journalism
2026-10-04Editorial NoteAmber RoessnerAmerican Journalism
2026-10-04The magic of investment podcasts: finfluencers as ideological intermediariesMerja Porttikivi, Ella Lillqvist Continuum
2026-10-04On the Ethical Fringes of Journalism: True Crime Podcasting as Diagnostic JournalismYulia S. Medvedeva, Gregory P. PerreaultJournal of Media Ethics
2026-10-04Perceiving the News as Toxic: A Longitudinal, Cross-National Analysis of Negative News Evaluations in Flanders and IrelandPauljan Truyens, Cassandra Craig, Eirini Evangelia Psychari ,Ike Picone, John O'Sullivan & Paul McNamaraJournalism Studies
2026-10-05“At least it will be 24 hours without fake news”: A thematic analysis of online comments on newsroom strikesQiongye Chen, Ever Josue Figueroa Atlantic Journal of Communication
2026-10-05“They Don’t Understand What it Means to be Poor”: How Representation, Relevance, and Relatability Shape the News Experience of Marginalised Young AdultsJames DennisJournalism Studies
2026-10-05From Facebook to front page: the influence of the Gilets Jaunes’ social media on local press language and framingDavide Morselli, Maite Regina Beramendi, Olivier FillieuleInformation, Communication & Society
2026-10-06Moral Archivists and Agents of Accountability: Typologies of Advocacy Journalism in Local Indonesian Media's Coverage of the Kanjuruhan TragedyReza Safitri, Dicky Wahyudi, Ainun Qisthi Rosyidah, Ranee TutaJournalism Studies
2026-10-07How Do Americans Engage With News Online?Beshay SaklaPew Research Center
2026-10-07Journalists on screen in the U.S. and Europe: Press playSarah LonsdaleJournalism
2026-10-07Does Immersive Journalism Erode News Objectivity? Effects of Immersion on Audience Emotional Engagement and Objectivity PerceptionQi Zhou, Zongya LiDigital Journalism
2026-10-07Clearly Transparent, but also Effective? A Systematic Literature Review on the (Potential) Effects of Employing Journalistic Transparency on Reception-Related OutcomesLars-Ole WehdenJournalism Studies
2026-10-08Reconfiguring repression: Violence against journalists in Indonesia under democratic backsliding (2014–2025)Wisnu Prasetya UtomoJournalism
2026-10-08The relationship between political YouTube news use and affective polarization in election vs. non-election contexts: mediation by hostile expression and moderation by political rumor acceptanceBumsoo Kim, Han Lin, Yunseung Lee, Janggeun LeeMedia International Australia
2026-10-08Writing trust in the age of generative AI: special interest magazines and embodied expertiseImogen SmithMedia International Australia
2026-10-08Climate Change Disinformation| Climate Change Disinformation—IntroductionAnton Shekhovtsov, Ilya Yablokov, Dani Madrid-Morales, Alexander EtkindInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-08Climate Change Disinformation| Unraveling Debunked Climate Change Disinformation and Responses to Fact-Checks: Evidence From the United States, Netherlands, and PhilippinesMichael HameleersInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-08Not only correcting lies. Analysis of interventionist strategies in news articles dealing with misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the NetherlandsDavid Blanco-Herrero, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Bas van den PutteJournalism
2026-10-08Framing of nationalism in climate reporting in the Global South: The case of IndiaNamrata Acharya, Lea HellmuellerGlobal Media and Communication
2026-10-09Framing lying flat in China: Official media reports and online reader responsesYanni SunMedia International Australia
2026-10-09Misinformation environments and social risk: a communication perspectivePhilip PondMedia International Australia
2026-10-09Teaching Inclusive Journalism as a Tool for Depolarization: Reimagining Journalism Education in a Diverse and Polarized WorldAnne Leppäjärvi, Cristina NistorJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-10-09Revenge bodies and antisocial media ecologiesAnthony P. McIntyre, Diane Negra, Odin O’SullivanMedia, Culture & Society
2026-10-09Educating Journalism Students on Gender in Challenging TimesIngrid Bachmann, Mia Moody, Margaretha Geertsema-SlighJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-10-10From Grassroots Sleuthing to Global Uptake: Epistemic Legitimation of Open-Source Investigations in Journalism Through Mediazona’s War Casualty Project in Russia’s War on UkraineVolha KananovichDigital Journalism
2026-10-10Bridging the Gap: What Sports Media Hiring Managers Actually Want from Journalism School GraduatesAdam Pitluk, Brian Petrotta, Jason StammJournalism Practice
2026-10-10Editorial Policy of Ukrainian Media: use of Generative AIViktoriya Shevchenko, Nataliia Malysh & Olena Tkachuk-MiroshnychenkoJournalism Practice
2026-10-10Defensive avoidance: How intimidating, belief-incongruent, and repetitive news disengages social media users from newsMaliha Khanam, Md. Sayeed Al-ZamanJournalism
2026-10-11Too Much or Not Enough? The Decline of the Iconic News Image and the Adaptive Challenges of Visual Digital JournalismEllie MacdonaldDigital Journalism
2026-10-12Stories that Make Hawks? Digital News-Based User-Generated Content and Foreign Policy Orientations Among China’s Generation ZYang Li, Ying Hooi Khoo, Siti Ezaleila Binti, MustafaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-12Global Perspectives on Crisis and Disaster Journalism: Implications for Journalism Education in an Era of Cascading CrisesGrace Elizabeth Smith, Mildred F. PerreaultJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-10-12Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Journalism Education: Curricular Gaps and Educator Perspectives From BangladeshMd Uzzal Talukder, Catherine A. LutherJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-10-12The hierarchy of humanization: A theory of victim visibility in news narrativesMaurice Emelu, Chika Nwugo, Regina Tuma, Sean Sims, Mariah Moulds, Elijah Williams, Felipe CovarrubiasJournalism
2026-10-12Heroism to tragedy: A social semiotic analysis of visual framing in Ukraine–Russia and Israel–Gaza conflictsShahbaz Aslam, Muhammad Yousaf, Syed Hassan RazaMedia, War & Conflict
2026-10-12Media event perception in wartime: Legacy news and platform-mediated exposure during Israel’s January 2025 hostage-release broadcastYaron Ariel, Dana Weimann-Saks, Vered ElisharMedia, War & Conflict
2026-10-12Psycho-social risk and protective factors associated with resilience in journalismMarijana Markovikj, Eleonora SerafimovskaJournalism
2026-10-13Negotiated Adaptability: How Peripheral Actors’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Shape Journalistic PracticeKevin C. Mudavadi, Bingbing Zhang, Melissa Tully, Brian Ekdale, Jonas Nyabor, Nur Hossain & Shitemi KhamadiDigital Journalism
2026-10-13From Institutionalized Data to Inconsistent Practices: The Dynamics of Datafied Employee Evaluation in Journalistic WorkRasa Jämsen, Ward van Zoonen, Mikko VilliDigital Journalism
2026-10-13Exploring Existential Reflections Inspired by Eudaimonic Media Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of Common Themes and Insights from Media Portrayals of Death and DyingEnny Das, Anne Bartsch, Julia Böttinger, Christal Bürgel & Kobie van KriekenMass Communication and Society
2026-10-13Through Our Eyes: Visualising the Stories We Think Journalists Are Missing or Aren’t Covering WellTJ ThomsonJournalism Practice
2026-10-13Mapping Gaps in Local News CoverageAlexander L. Curry ,Yujin Kim ,Caroline Murray ,Emily Graham & Natalie Jomini StroudJournalism Studies
2026-10-13Webs of Ainu Mosir: Indigenous Creative Networks on YouTubeXanat Vargas Meza, Takumi Yokoyama, Chieko Nishimura, Ryohei Nishida, Yoichi OchiaiSocial Media + Society
2026-10-14Constructive Journalism Across Borders: Investigating Constructive Journalistic Subcultures in EuropeBirte Leonhardt, Diego GarusiJournalism Practice
2026-10-14Riding the Waves of Media Attention: Agenda Building Under ScarcityEster Cohen Rinski, Motti Neiger, Clila MagenInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-14Navigating AI Without a Roadmap: Local Journalists’ Pragmatic Adoption and the Institutional Void in TürkiyeTaybe Topsakal, Didem Deniz Anamur & Şeymanur ÖzlüJournalism Practice
2026-10-14Uniformity, diversity, and memetics: Editorial adaptation in Civil War–era American journalismZef Segal, Menahem BlondheimJournalism
2026-10-14Covering Cuban Immigrants: A Local Newspaper’s PhotographsTimothy Roy GleasonVisual Communication Quarterly
2026-10-14Decoding Tomorrow: A Visual Analysis of The Economist’s ‘The World Ahead 2025’ CoverYavuz Selim Balcıoğlu, Erkut AltındağVisual Communication Quarterly
2026-10-14Visualizing Resilience: Understanding the Visual Communication of Resilience Through News Photographs in Elicitation Interviews with Wildland FirefightersJared T. MacaryVisual Communication Quarterly
2026-10-14Wild tides: Media infrastructure and financial crisis in IrelandSelena A. DickeyCritical Studies in Media Communication
2026-10-14The impact of artificial intelligence on journalism: How media trust and attitudes toward journalists shape acceptance, trust, willingness to pay for AI news, and support for replacing journalistsManuel Goyanes, Marína Urbániková, Beatriz JordáJournalism
2026-10-14Editor’s Note—Fall 2026Kirstie HettingaNewspaper Research Journal
2026-10-15Turkish police raid offices of major TV news channelJhanerPew Research Center
2026-10-15Socioeconomic frames of Russia's post-2022 migration to Kazakhstan: A four-language news comparisonMyrzantay ZhakypInternational Communication Gazette
2026-10-15Institutional sentinel: Journalistic role performance and the defense of media autonomy under democratic threatVytautas ValentinavičiusJournalism
2026-10-15What Makes Child Harm Newsworthy? Event Characteristics, Victim Characteristics, and Media AttentionNikolay Ternov, Kuralay Mukhambetova, Zeinep AbetovaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-15The challenge of diversity in public service media: A case study of Spanish regional Broadcast Video on Demand portalsAida Martori Munsant, Tania Fernández-Lombao, Azahara CañedoConvergence
2026-10-15More Than Core and Periphery: How a Mapping Approach Can Add Nuance to Understanding the Journalistic FieldPhoebe Maares, Kim Löhmann, Folker Hanusch, Daniel NöllekeJournalism Studies
2026-10-15Relational mechanisms in media-audience interaction under controversy: Public perceptions of media performance in LithuaniaAuksė Balčytienė, Rūta Kupetytė, Giedrė Plepytė-DavidavičienėThe Communication Review
2026-10-15Risk management in Meta’s news moderation policies on InstagramAhmed Al-RawiThe Communication Review
2026-10-16Privileged precarity: Working freelance in the TV industryRichard WallisMedia, Culture & Society
2026-10-16Manufacturing controversies: Media, politics and censoring contemporary art in AustraliaLouise RollmanMedia, Culture & Society
2026-10-16Victim identity and political consequentiality: Framing migrant and citizen deaths in the Greek pressNikolaos Lampas, Vasileios VlaserosEuropean Journal of Communication
2026-10-16Ethical Challenges in Constructive Journalism: A SWOT-Based Systematic ReviewSusana Herrera-Damas, José Luis Requejo-AlemánJournal of Media Ethics
2026-10-16Toward a Theory of Justice for Journalists: Reimagining News Coverage Through the Veil of IgnoranceDeborah M. PastnerJournal of Media Ethics
2026-10-16Subversive memory work: Reworking journalism and its digital archives to contest dominant memory regimesRahoof KaliyarakathJournalism
2026-10-17Religious information repertoires in Switzerland’s hybrid information environment: asymmetric associations with trust and reputationRebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger Information, Communication & Society
2026-10-191 in 5 Americans Regularly Get News on TikTokJanakee ChavdaPew Research Center
2026-10-19News Platform Fact SheetSara AtskePew Research Center
2026-10-19Social Media and News Fact SheetSara AtskePew Research Center
2026-10-19Evaluation and chronotopes in newsbites from Trump White House email newsletters from 2017 to 2020Mark Winston VisonàDiscourse, Context & Media
2026-10-19Epistemic Surrender: How U.S. Sports Journalists Appraise Risks and Rewards of Legal Sports BettingBrian A. Petrotta, Adam Pitluk, Jason StammJournal of Media Ethics
2026-10-20Trust, AI, and credibility in Reddit’s election news discourseTimothy Koskie, Justin K. Miller, Christopher J. HallCommunication Research and Practice
2026-10-20Participatory journalism in practice: Assessing interactivity and citizen contributions in newsroomsAdelino CunhaJournalism
2026-10-21Transnational Investigative Journalism in Cyberspace: Mapping the Pegasus Project through a Space-Power-Identity LensMuhammad Shahzaib Hassan, Sardar Jehanzaib Ghalib Journalism Practice
2026-10-21The democratic value of local information: How journalistic and non-journalistic sources relate to community attachment, civic engagement, and democratic attitudesLeyla Dogruel, Jakob Henke, Wiebke MoehringJournalism
2026-10-21Invisible Women in Economics: Almost Two Centuries of Gender Representation in the Financial Times and The Economist (1843–2021)Andrea BarigazziJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-21‘We don't do politics’: theorizing climate change communication on Australian community radio through radical eco-communicative democracyBridget Backhaus, Kerrie Foxwell-NortonMedia International Australia
2026-10-21Digital transformation in Public Service Media: Adaptation strategies of European broadcastersClara Almeida Santos, Felisbela LopesEuropean Journal of Communication
2026-10-22Where Americans are getting their news in the digital agejhanerPew Research Center
2026-10-22Dependence or Interdependence? A Folk-Theories Perspective on Journalists’ and Activists’ Mutual PerceptionsMarlene Strehler-Schaaf, Charlotte LöbJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-22Algorithmic Editorial Power: AI, Capital, and Journalistic Autonomy in Smart NewsroomsJie XiaoJournalism Practice
2026-10-22“AI Is a Story About Labor Automation”: Journalism, Tech, and Perceptions of PrecarityQiongye Chen, Patrick FerrucciNewspaper Research Journal
2026-10-22What generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) risks make the news? representation of GenAI risk in Australian digital newsChenchen WangMedia International Australia
2026-10-22In need of transnational news literacies: What migrant audiences from an autocracy know about their newsAnna Ryzhova, Florian ToepflInternational Communication Gazette
2026-10-22War, Feelings of Belonging, and News Diets: How Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Did (Not) Change the News Repertoires of Russian Speakers in GermanyAnna Ryzhova, Eunike Piwoni, Florian TöpflDigital Journalism
2026-10-23Growing Share of Americans Say Social Media Is an Important News Source for ThemBeshay SaklaPew Research Center
2026-10-23AI for the audiences: Envisioning the future media environmentHenrik Rydenfelt, Joel Kiskola, Thomas OlssonConvergence
2026-10-23How Chinese and U.S. media construct legitimacy at sea differently: A corpus-based comparative analysis of China’s distant-water fishingCheng Chen, Renping LiuJournalism
2026-10-24When it’s your own child: effects of media narratives on U.S. parents’ support for their LGBTQ+ teen—Journal of Communication
2026-10-25Do Experts Agree About Misinformation? Evidence From Three Annual SurveysSacha Altay, Sebastián Valenzuela, Philip N. HowardSocial Media + Society
2026-10-25Navigating Platform Pressures: Digital Content Producers and Gatekeeping in Digital NewsroomsLana MedinaNewspaper Research Journal
2026-10-25Projecting Strength Beyond Arms: Media Nationalism and News Framing of the U.S.–China Trade War 2.0Michael Ofori, Fredrick Daoyenikye, Sandra Freda WoodNewspaper Research Journal
2026-10-26Disconnected or selective? Understanding the drivers of low or no news consumption among chilean audiencesAlexis Cruz, Claudia MelladoJournalism
2026-10-26Introduction to the Special Issue: Ethics Training in Journalism & Strategic CommunicationMarlene S. Neill Journal of Media Ethics
2026-10-26Narrative Theory in Journalistic Practice: Understanding Emerging Digital GenresKobie van KriekenMass Communication and Society
2026-10-27Migration motivations and experiences of Arab journalists in Türkiye: A mixed-methods study of IstanbulDanyal Nazif, Filiz Bilgin ÜlkenJournalism
2026-10-28Collective Memory as Paradigm Reconsideration: Celebration and Endorsement of Multiculturalism Through Black Journalists’ ObituariesDanford ZirugoAmerican Journalism
2026-10-28A History of Government Public Relations in the United StatesJoel MoroneyAmerican Journalism
2026-10-28The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV NewsEric Boll OhioAmerican Journalism
2026-10-28Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public BroadcastingBrian Creech LehighAmerican Journalism
2026-10-28Review of Mapping American Social Movements ProjectJon MarshallAmerican Journalism
2026-10-28Teaching Social Media Memory: Connecting the Past with the Personal for Undergraduate StudentsCarrie T. Isard NiagaraAmerican Journalism
2026-10-28The hidden toll: Investigating trauma and building resilience in conflict reportingMaha Bashri, Lada Trifonova Price, Olatunji Ogunyemi, Desiree HillJournalism
2026-10-28Corrigendum to “Constructing the Journalistic Self: Habitus, Subjectivation, and the Politics of Inequality”—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-28The Effect of Broadcasting Parliamentary Proceedings on Legislative Disruption: Evidence from IndiaAjit Phadnis, S. SivanandhamPolitical Communication
2026-10-28Paradigm Change in Portuguese Post-Pandemic Journalism? Not Quite … Felisbela Lopes ,Clara Almeida Santos ,Alberto Sá ,Rita Araujo & Ana Teresa PeixinhoJournalism Practice
2026-10-28Cosmopolitan Sonic Intimacies: Listening as Civic Infrastructure in Diasporic Mobile MediaTharupathi MunasingheMobile Media & Communication
2026-10-29Flooding the zone during the 2026 war on Iran: Coverage of the Minab School attack in US and UK mediaKareem El Damanhoury, Abeer Al-NajjarJournalism
2026-10-29Tina Burrett, Russia’s State Media and Foreign Policy, 2000–2024Tianwei LvInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-29From Maximizing to Minimizing Responsibility: A Comparative Analysis of Facebook’s Election Integrity Framing in News Media and the Meta NewsroomChelsea Butkowski, Kirubel Tadesse, Gabriel Ponniah, Ashia Aubrey, Tom Durham, Michelle Hutchins, Hafiz Kheir, Willa MeissnerInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-29Saying Their Names: Shifts in News Media Framing of Police ViolenceJames Crissman, Chris WellsInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-29Playing Catch-up: How Australian Indigenous Broadcasting Navigates the Digital ShiftDebbie Bargallie, Susan Forde, Heather AndersonInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-29Emotions in Metajournalistic Discourse: Discussing the Emotional Dimensions of Journalism in Belarus, Germany, India, Ukraine, and the United StatesJohana Kotišová, Gregory Perreault, Michael Koliska, Volha Kananovich, Kalyani ChadhaInternational Journal of Communication
2026-10-29Rethinking Learning Objectives in Media and Communication Education: A Constructive Alignment Framework for Generative Artificial IntelligenceHoai Lan DuongJournalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-10-29Differentiating authority in hydrogen news: Source hierarchies and evaluative positions across Germany and MENA newspapersMajid Ali, Lutz M. HagenJournalism
2026-10-29TikTok Platformization: How Mainstream News Organizations Covered a Natural Disaster on TikTok—A Case in VietnamNguyen Anh Thu, Bui Thi Thuy, Linh Le Do Khanh, Linh Nguyen Khanh, Ha Nguyen Thuy, An Nguyen Pham, Phuong Uyen DiepJournalism Studies
2026-10-29CALD workforce and resident challenges in the Australian residential aged care sector: a media analysisTurki Alsaeed, Tracy Washington, Bo XiaMedia International Australia
2026-10-29Proximity and Principle: Role and Norm Negotiation based on Embeddedness of JournalistsAhmed Zayeef, Tim P. VosJournalism Practice
2026-10-29Perceived Sources Matter: Implications of Misinformation on Media Trust and News Avoidance Under Different Levels of Press FreedomYuteng Zheng, Michael Chan, Francis L. F. LeeJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-29Framing the unseen: COVID-19 through the eyes of a broadsheet and a tabloidZhuli RenAtlantic Journal of Communication
2026-10-30When Epistemic Authority Collapses: Linking Fake News Media Perception and Conspiracy Beliefs to Disinformation VulnerabilityAlberto Ardèvol-Abreu, Alberto E. López-Carrión, Jenny del Pino, García SánchezJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-10-30Media trust and opinions about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Audience-level evidence from KazakhstanDanil Markus, Seçkin Barış Gülmez, Amanzhol BekmagambetovMedia, War & Conflict
2026-10-30Islamophobia and Online News: Elite News Discourse and Comments About the Daegu Mosque in South KoreaDavid Chison Oh, Yoon Esther LeeJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly