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
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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
ARTICLE: Civic participation affected more by age than news repertoire
Younger Israelis seem more eager for civic participation than their older peers, regardless of what news they consume. Sagit Dinnar, of the Open University of Israel, and Hillel Nossek, of … Continued
ARTICLE: BBC’s senior journalists are disconnected from the public
Prominent journalists working for the British Broadcasting Corporation are very different from their audience, Gary James Merrill, of University of Roehampton, writes. He investigated the social constitution of 66 senior … Continued
ARTICLE: What news do Islamists consume?
Radicalized Islamists consume regular, mainstream news media – but almost always filtered by Islamist propagandists. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich researchers Philip Baugut and Katharina Neumann interviewed 34 Islamists serving … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in December 2019 about journalism research. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the … Continued
ARTICLE: News diversity declines within Mediahuis titles
The Belgian media conglomerate Mediahuis is increasingly recycling news between four of its Flemish titles, Jonathan Hendrickx, of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, writes. Hendrickx analysed nearly 12 500 news articles published … Continued
ARTICLE: Worry over finances makes audiences pay for local news
Audience members who worry over the financial situation of their local news outlets are more willing to pay for news, Manuel Goyanes, of University Carlos III de Madrid, discovered. Goyanes … Continued
ARTICLE: Newsrooms neglect WhatsApp’s interactive potential
Few German newsrooms use the messaging application WhatsApp and even fewer use it for interaction with their audience. Karin Boczek and Lars Koppers, both of Technical University Dortmund, investigated newsrooms’ … Continued
ARTICLE: Press freedom actually lowers news engagement
A country’s ranking on the Freedom House press freedom index has a negative impact on its citizens engagement with news content. Shuning Lu, of North Dakota State University, and Luwei … Continued
ARTICLE: Western Afro-pessimism seeps into African media
African news on Africa are largely negative and thus follow Western notions of the continent, Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo, of University of Cape Coast, writes. He analysed over 13 000 … Continued
ARTICLE: News about child sexual exploitation have gotten worse
British newspapers’ coverage of child sexual exploitation (CSE) was better in late 1990’s than in mid-2010’s, Katie Elliott, of London Metropolitan University writes. She analysed the framing of 390 articles … Continued
ARTICLE: Uncivil reader comments increase support for authoritative restrictions
If a news article is followed by uncivil reader comments, other readers will become more permissive towards moderator or even police action against uncivil comments. Teresa K. Naab (University of … Continued
ARTICLE: Data does not make news credible, but data visualization does
News articles that cite numbers are no more credible to the audience than stories without them, an experiment with Hongkonger university students indicates. Y. Roselyn Du, Lingzi Zhu and Benjamin … Continued
ARTICLE: Headless photos increase negativity towards obese people
News images that depict obese people from the neck down increase the readers’ negative attitudes towards the obese, a team of researchers found. They conducted two online experiments with 332 … Continued
ARTICLE: Russian Sputnik’s three strategies against Sweden
The Russian government-sponsored broadcaster Sputnik has consistently attacked Sweden since 2014, Charlotte Wagnsson and Costan Barzanje, both of Swedish Defence University, write. They analysed 208 Sputnik news stories featuring the … Continued
ARTICLE: Autocracies are not the most dangerous places for journalists
Most journalists are killed in so-called “hybrid regimes”, Sallie Hughes, of University of Miami, and Yulia Vorobyeva, of Florida International University, found. They came to the conclusion after analyzing all … Continued
ARTICLE: Clicks really affect what news get promoted
If an online news article produces good metrics, such as clicks, journalists will consider it more newsworthy. University of Antwerp researchers Kenza Lamot and Peter Van Aelst confirmed the effect … Continued
ARTICLE: Populist rhetoric on immigrants is more common in Danish than in Swedish or Norwegian press
Danish newspapers are noticeably more populist in writing about immigration than their Swedish or Norwegian counterparts, Hilmar Mjelde and Jan Fredrik Hovden, both of University of Bergen, write. They analysed … Continued
Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in November 2019 about journalism research. The bolded titles link to JRN articles written about the … Continued
ARTICLE: The size of a minority drives its members’ news consumption
The larger a minority community is, the more they read news online, a study by Lisa M. George, of Hunter College, and Christian Peukert, of the Catholic University of Portugal, … Continued
ARTICLE: Young lifestyle journalists experience most commercial influence
Age correlates strongly with how much commercial influence lifestyle journalists report, University of Vienna researchers Folker Hanusch, Sandra Banjac and Phoebe Maares write. They analysed data from a survey of … Continued
ARTICLE: Business interests are more prominent in news than thought
Business interests have much greater presence in news than previously thought, University of Amsterdam researchers Ellis Aizenberg and Marcel Hanegraaff write. The authors analysed of over 350 000 British and … Continued
ARTICLE: Fact-checking works, but not very well
Research indicates that fact-checking is usually able to correct the audience’s perceptions, a team of researchers found. Nathan Walter, of Northwestern University, Jonathan Cohen and Yasmin Morag, both of University … Continued

































