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Are online journalists different from print and broadcast colleagues when it comes to professional standards? Imke Henkel of the University of Lincoln, Neil Thurman of LMU Münich, and Judith Möller … Continued
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ARTICLE: Public broadcasters in Portugal and Spain were heavily impacted by austerity policies
The external financial assistance provided for European countries in crises starting in 2009, had a major impact for many public services in these countries, including public service broadcasting. The article … Continued
ARTICLE: Exposure to falsehoods in news and attempts to verify, from publics’ point of view
Falsehoods circulating online, such as fake news websites, rumours spread on purpose and political deceit, cause considerable concern for contemporary democracies. How do publics react to these concerns? And what … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in April 2020 about journalism research. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the … Continued
ARTICLE: Empowering women in Niger with radio journalism
Radio can be used for reaching marginalised and isolated communities in many regions in the Global South. It is important to see whether information broadcasted is accurate, independent and aligned … Continued
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ARTICLE: How to report on the dark net?
Writing stories on the dark net, the hidden part of the internet outside the reach of public search engines, is an unusual practice. For example, using a nick, i.e. a … Continued
ARTICLE: Gatekeeping news after publication
Gatekeeping processes online are changing constantly and being affected by so-called secondary gatekeepers. The new article by Alfred Hermida of the University of British Columbia, presents a conceptual framework on … Continued
Social media has become the most important news source for many, and its use for finding news has increased tremendously over the past years. The “news finds me” perception (NFM) … Continued
Here is a list of all the academic books on journalism we have collected at Journalism Research News during March 2020. You can search or arrange the table per your … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in March 2020 about journalism research. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the … Continued
In covering Ebola, the West saw Africa as inept and disease-ridden
Did Western and African media cover the 2014 Ebola outbreak differently? Adaobi Duru, of University of Louisiana, investigated the matter by analysing Ebola-related articles from five newspapers. The papers came … Continued
Deepfakes do not fool people, but still undermine trust in news
So-called deepfake videos do not deceive the audience, but they increase uncertainty and thus decrease trust in news. The result is reported by Loughborough University researchers Cristian Vaccari and Andrew … Continued
Poor working conditions drive journalists into public relations
What drives journalists to become “turncoats” and how do they reflect upon their career change? Bernadette Kester, of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Mirjam Prenger, of University of Amsterdam, interviewed 11 … Continued
People think they are better at spotting ‘fake news’ than others
People are confident in their ability to distinguish actual news from ‘fake news’ but they are much less optimistic about others. A team of researchers surveyed 813 Romanian adults, asking … Continued
Journalists are bad at communicating scientific consensus
Most news articles do not clearly state expert consensus, even when one exists. The finding is reported by Eric Merkley, of University of Toronto. Merkley analysed over 280 000 news … Continued
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Seeing news in a foreign language can stoke racial resentment
The language of news articles can increase racial resentment or -depending on the person- feelings of belonging. The findings come from two online experiments with White Americans (n=620) and supposed … Continued
How do different digital literacy skills and news readership interact in the context of civic engagement? Soo Jung Moon, of Unversity of West Georgia, and Sang Y. Bai, of National … Continued
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ARTICLE: Scandinavian mainstream media reject alternative right-wing media’s agenda
Swedish, Danish and Norwegian newspapers rarely -if ever- pick up on the topics written about by alternative right-wing media. Silje Nygaard, of University of Bergen, analysed 878 mainstream news articles … Continued
ARTICLE: The Lampedusa disaster had no lasting effect on immigration coverage
“Was Lampedusa a key event for immigration news?” An international team of researchers posed this question to a sample of 2 059 news articles on immigration. The sample covers three … Continued
ARTICLE: Country images are shaped by news sources, not by content
Reading negative or positive news of a particular country alone does not affect the reader’s image of that country. The surprising result was discovered by Chen Yang, of Robert Morris … Continued
ARTICLE: Women in TV journalism suffer regular harassment
How much and which kinds of harassment do women working in television journalism face – and how do they deal with it? Kaitlin C. Miller and Seth C. Lewis investigated … Continued

































