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

The 10th The Bridges of Media Education conference is now accepting paper proposals. The event will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, on the 14th and 15th of September 2018. … Continued

How does social media affect contemporary journalism? Patrick Ferrucci, of University of Colorado-Boulder, put the question to 53 American digital journalists and interviewed them over their use of social media. … Continued

The journal Feminist Media Studies is calling for essays for its thematic issue, entitled “Women in Sports Media: New Scholarly Engagements”. The contributions would be published in the journal’s “Commentary … Continued

South Korean newspapers write more often and more positively about their owners and subsidiary companies than of their competitors, a team of South Korean researchers discovered. They analysed 1 362 … Continued

The two-day International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC) titled “New Media Studies: Re-examining Articulations of Theory, Practice and Context” will be held on 21-22 September 2018, at SIMC, Symbiosis … Continued

In their work Indigenous media producers navigate tensions between professional obligations and responsibility towards their communities. Over the course of 12 years, Elizabeth Burrows of Griffith University, interviewed 42 Indigenous … Continued

How do news tweets affect Twitter users and what kind of tweets do they prefer? The authors of a new study examined how perceptions of news tweets differ based upon … Continued

The conference “Ownership Structures and Managerial Challenges in the African Media and Telecommunications Sectors”, held 8-9 November 2018 at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is calling for papers. The conference … Continued

Compared to men, articles written by women attracted a higher percentage of inappropriate comments, new study finds. Becky Gardiner of Goldsmiths, University of London, studied blocked comments on The Guardian … Continued

It takes two to tango when it comes to agenda building, the results of a new study show. Anne C. Kroon and Toni G. L. A. van der Meer of … Continued

The International Conference on Media & Communication 2018 is calling for paper proposals. The event will take place in Pune, India, on the 21st and 22nd of September 2018. The … Continued

The concept of “hybridity” and “hybrid journalism” has been useful in describing things that do not fall into dichotomous categories. However, the concept is insufficient in describing the complexity inherent … Continued

The editor of an encyclopedia on mass media is calling for contribution proposals. The 5-volume book is entitled “The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society” and it is … Continued