The journal Central European Journal of Communication is calling for papers for its special issue on “Populism and the Media Across Europe”. For this special issue the journal invites submissions … Continued

In regular news production, a journalist’s role orientation cannot solely account for what ends up on the news output. In Twitter, the roles are manifested quite often, a study finds. … Continued

The VIEW Journal is calling for papers on the topic “Public Service Broadcasting In The Digital Age”. This special issue proposes a reexamination of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the … Continued

Significant differences exist between issues in the actors that get to speak in television news, new study from Belgium finds. Kathleen Beckers and Peter Van Aelst, both of the University … Continued

The aim of the proposed book “Mediated Shame: Disparaging Poverty in Media and Popular Culture” is to explore how media impose shame on and facilitate shaming of economically underperforming people … Continued

Fergal Quinn, of the University of Limerick, studied the teaching of journalism ethics in a developing country. The author interviewed 25 organizers of journalism training programs in Cambodia and 29 … Continued

On the week 15/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Media and Transnational Climate Justice – Indigenous Activism and Climate Politics By Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg Published … Continued

The Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland is calling for papers for the conference “The Press and the Vote”. The  tenth anniversary conference is held at the National University … Continued

How does the use of Facebook connect to the level of people’s political knowledge? In a new study, researchers explored this relationship by analysing two representative datasets from the United … Continued

David Coppini of the University of Denver, and German Alvarez and Hernando Rojas, both of the University of Wisconsin, studied the relationship between media exposure, perceptions of inequality, and political … Continued

Convergence, The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, is calling for papers for its special issue “Gamifying News: Playful approaches to public engagement”. As a natural continuation of … Continued

Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard’s (1996–2007) use of talk back radio and YouTube were pivotal in the trend towards ‘disintermediation’ in Australian politics, a new study states. Caroline Fisher, David … Continued

Generation C has always been a challenging group for news organizations. New research identified Generation C’s local news repertoires, and build an integrated model of multiplatform news consumption. According to … Continued

Air pollution is one of the main environmental concerns in Chinese cities. Sibo Chen, of Simon Fraser University, studied how Beijing’s smog hazard in 2013 was covered by the Xinhua … Continued

Existing studies on ideological selective exposure have several limitations, state Tetsuro Kobayashi of City University Hong Kong, Yuki Ogawa of Ritsumeikan University, Takahisa Suzuki of Tsuda University, and Hitoshi Yamamoto … Continued

Female journalists face rampant online harassment, across different cultures, new study states. Researchers interviewed 75 female journalists who have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United … Continued

The relationship between the news media and individuals of the political elite in India can be conceptualized as ‘contingent heteronomy’, a new study argues. Swati Maheshwari and Colin Sparks, of … Continued

Hyperlinking patterns of news websites can be seen as indicators of flow of information. News outlets are not connected equally, and significant parts of the journalistic sector are disconnected from … Continued

On the week 14/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing: How to Survive in the Digital Age By Mary Hogarth Published by Routledge … Continued

Humour and satirical attitudes are often intertwined to political communication and journalism. The new political landscapes, in the president Trump’s US and the Brexit’s UK, have challenged mainstream broadcast political satire, … Continued

Earlier research has higlighted instances of ‘paradigm repair’, moments when journalists deploy discursive strategies to defend the paradigmatic status quo from a perceived internal threat. These threats have included different … Continued

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in April 2018 about journalism research. The list is updated a couple of times per week. … Continued

How does uncertainty affect journalists’ job expectations? Manuel Goyanes and Eduardo Francisco Rodríguez-Gómez, of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, did observation at the workplace and interviews with 27 managers and … Continued

The Panama Papers data leak and media collaboration in 2016 were unprecedented in scale, and drew unprecedented news focus to global tax abuse. Thomas Owen and Taylor Annabell, of Auckland … Continued

Chinese state news reports project an overall negative view of Muslims, a new study shows. Luwei Rose Luqiu of Pennsylvania State University, and Fan Yang of the University at Albany, … Continued

Local newspapers have also started to apply digital paywalls around the world. The latest study in Norway, including 20 local newspapers, provide some optimism on paywall’s potential contribution to the … Continued

Which news organizations are currently using geolocated news and what kind of content is being used? Amy Schmitz Weiss of San Diego State University, went through 173 mobile news apps … Continued

How do analytics rationalize journalistic work? Rutgers University researcher Caitlin Petre spent six months at the newsroom analytics company Chartbeat doing ethnographic observation and interviews. The author looked at discursive … Continued

On the week 13/2018 the following publications have come to our attention: Russia’s Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free Written by Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova Published by Routledge 222 pages The Routledge Companion … Continued

Leaks are important sources for journalism. Authors Víctor Sampedro, F Javier López-Ferrández and Álvaro Carretero, all from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, divided leaks first into two types: official ones (the … Continued