Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in February 2020 about journalism research. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the … 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
Here is a list of all the academic books on journalism we have collected at Journalism Research News during February 2020. You can search or arrange the table per your … Continued
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
ARTICLE: Journalists still prefer traditional audience metrics
American journalists still find page views and social sharing to be the most useful audience metrics. Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Rodrigo Zamith and Avery E. Holton surveyed 520 American newspaper, magazine and … Continued
ARTICLE: Online experiments can indicate audience preferences like field research does
Does an experimental setting affect news audiences’ behaviour? The question is a relevant concern to researchers who consider sending participants to a mock news website as part of their methodology: … Continued
ARTICLE: Migration news underrepresent women
Migrant women are much less visible than migrant men in German news on migration. Fabienne Lind, of University of Vienna, and Christine E. Meltzer, of University of Mainz, discovered the … Continued
ARTICLE: When a company is in a crisis, journalists’ attention shifts away from the CEO
A company’s chief executive officer (CEO) is usually its most visible public representative. However, in a time of crisis, journalists’ attention moves towards the company’s board members, Johannes Gutenberg University … Continued
ARTICLE: Licence to take risks is key to news agencies’ success
Privately owned news agencies are struggling to survive in ever more competitive markets. New technologies have made information more readily available, undermining the agencies’ competitive edge, Atte Jääskeläinen, of Lappeenranta … Continued
ARTICLE: Distance helps report on Iran and North Korea
Reporting on highly repressive societies like those of Iran and North Korea can be difficult. Sometimes doing so from afar may be more useful than dispatching journalists on the ground, … Continued
ARTICLE: Donald Trump’s rise to power changed how news talk about ‘the border’
News discourse on the American-Mexican border region of Rio Grande Valley changed noticeably over 2015 – 2017. K. Jill Fleuriet, of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Mari … Continued
ARTICLE: Which sources would journalists choose for immigration news?
Elite sources tend to dominate the coverage of immigration, but when journalists have the chance they include more immigrants’ voices. Akhteruz Zaman, of Massey University, and Jahnnabi Das, of University … Continued
ARTICLE: Newsrooms still don’t use Twitter’s potential to the fullest
How did different television networks use Twitter in covering the 2016 Orlando mass shooting? Lourdes Cárdenas, of San Francisco State University, with Celeste González de Bustamante and Jessica Retis, both … Continued
ARTICLE: Egypt’s media missed its opportunity to reform
Egyptian media enjoyed a brief period of relative freedom after the 2011 revolution that ousted then-president Hosni Mubarak. However, journalists failed to reform their professional identities and the media system, … Continued
ARTICLE: Fact-checkers cannot transcend partisan divides
Americans’ views of fact-checking sites are highly politicized, Michigan State University researchers Craig T. Robertson, Rachel R. Mourão and Esther Thorson write. They surveyed a representative sample of 1 033 … Continued
ARTICLE: Newspapers chasing quick profits are most negative on terrorism
Newspapers’ profit orientation influences how negative their news on terrorism are, Aaron M. Hoffman, of Simon Fraser University Canada, and Dwaine H. A. Jengelley, of Purdue University, write. They analysed … Continued
Here is a list of all the academic books on journalism we have collected at Journalism Research News during January 2020. You can search or arrange the table per your … Continued
ARTICLE: Running into news by chance might be a bad thing
Encountering news by chance on social media, i.e. “incidental news consumption”, can be detrimental to audiences’ news habits, Chang Sup Park, of State University of New York at Albany, and … Continued
Here are all the peer-reviewed journal articles, reports and other papers collected by Journalism Research News during the year 2019. That makes over 1 100 papers! Some titles might be … Continued
A new research article by Suman Mishra of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, examines the phenomenon of news domestication and shows how hashtag activism originating in one country can have very … Continued
ARTICLE: Swedish newspapers depict single mothers as reluctant heroes
How are single mothers represented in Sweden’s leading newspapers? Disa Bergnehr, of University of Borås, and Helena Wahlström Henriksson, of Uppsala University, tackled the question through content analysis. They investigated … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in January 2020 about journalism research. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the … Continued
ARTICLE: Most media inform better than mobile news apps
Citizens gain more political knowledge from almost any other news media than mobile news applications, a study on Danes discovered. Jakob Ohme, of University of Amsterdam, conducted a large-scale survey … Continued
ARTICLE: Accusations of lying prompt self-reflection in German media
German news media has been recently met with an renewed flurry of Lügenpresse accusations. The term Lügenpresse, or “lying press”, dates back to the First World War, but is best … Continued
ARTICLE: How does China Daily represent Chinese Muslims?
The state-aligned newspaper China Daily covers Chinese Muslims in a paternalistic manner, Meng Ye, of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Peter Thomas, of University of Leicester, write. They studied the … Continued
ARTICLE: Japanese news media took no lessons from Fukushima
Leading Japanese news outlets failed their audiences during the Fukushima nuclear incident – and they have done little to improve, a team of Japanese researchers write. They interviewed the responsible … Continued

































