How valenced reader comments affect recipients’ perception of scandalized individuals and the journalistic quality of online news? ask Christian von Sikorski of University of Vienna and Maria Hänelt of German Sport University Cologne. … Continued

New special issue of European Journal of Communication is out now. The issue is called Future priorities in European media and communication research and there is also some interesting texts concerning … Continued

Information activists and journalists differ from each other mainly by their understanding of the nature of knowledge, writes Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, of University of Roskilde. The author interviewed and observed … Continued

The journalists and readers of the newspaper The Guardian prefer different topics in human trafficking related news, write Maria Eirini Papadouka, Nicholas Evangelopoulos and Gabe Ignatow, all of University of … Continued

Newspapers veer towards using the visual frames offered by non-governmental organizations, rather than those of governmental spokespeople, write Antal Wozniak, Hartmut Wessler and Julia Lück, all of University of Mannheim. … Continued

Negative news regarding a politician’s own party’s pet issue is more likely than others to inspire him or her to act, writes Luzia Helfer, of Leiden University. The author asked … Continued

The second LEMEL symposium, titled “Online Media, European Actors and Discourse” is now accepting submissions. The event will be held at the Gennevilliers campus of the Cergy-Pontoise University on the … Continued

Exposure to high quality newspapers increases voter turnout in elections, write Florian Arendt, of University of Munich, and Cornelia Brandtner, of Dresden University of Technology. The authors studied 460 Austrians’ … Continued

The second iteration of the annual Press/Politics conference, arranged by the titular International Journal of Press/Politics, is now looking for article propositions. The event itself will be held at the … Continued

In a world with a wide range of possibilities to consume news for free, paying for news can be considered an act of civic engagement, claim Joëlle Swart, Chris Peters and Marcel Broersma. They analyze … Continued

Mads Kæmsgaard Eberhols, Jannie Møller Hartley and Maria Bendix Olsen of Roskilde University study journalism students’ experiences in a course that simulates an online newsroom. The scholars explored the dilemmas that students experience “working” as … Continued

Nordicom Review is calling for papers for a special issue that examines photojournalism in editorial processes in a period of paradigmatic change. The aim of the issue is to reach a … Continued

New issue of quarterly published Communication & Society is out now. The journal’s aim is to make research contributions to the field of communication from a variety of perspectives. The new … Continued

Editors are calling for chapters for a book called Journalism, Diaspora and Conflict. How diasporic media and journalists perceive their roles in conflict situation? The book aims to capture this and … Continued

Latest special issue of Journalism Practice called Entrepreneurial Journalism is now published. The magazine provides opportunities for reflective, critical and research-based studies focused on the professional practice of journalism. This issues articles study news … Continued

Multiplatform news media production is already a reality that will inevitably grow and improve. In their newly published article Renira Rampazzo Gambarato and Lorena Peret Teixeira Tárcia present a model of analysis … Continued

A workshop titled “Freedom and Control of Expression in the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks” is looking for paper proposals. The event will be held at the Institute … Continued

Defining the “sustainability” of news ventures on the basis of their financial profitability may be misleading, writes Naomi Sakr, of University of Westminster. Sakr interviewed the staff of three Egyptian … Continued

Arts journalism in Sweden is losing its autonomy and becoming more directed by the general logic of commercial journalism, writes Cristine Sarrimo, of Lund University. Sarrimo interviewed three veteran journalists … Continued

  More and more consumers of news are becoming contributors to and creators of news. Do journalists think that Networked Journalism, a concept where professionals and amateurs are working together … Continued

Polls indicate that trust in journalism, especially online journalism, is rather low in Western societies. To assess the difference in offline and online trust, Katherine M. Grosser develops a model … Continued

The Dutch news website De Correspondent has pointedly and successfully rejected the journalistic norm of objectivity, writes Frank Harbers, of University of Groningen. Harbers analyzed 63 stories published on the … Continued

Russian, Polish and Swedish journalists can be seen as members of a shared community, write Gunnar Nygren, of Södertorn University, and Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska, of University of Wrocław. They present the … Continued

The way non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are depicted by the Greek newspapers has changed since 2004, write Christos Frangonikolopoulos, of Aristotle University Thessaloniki, and Stamatis Poulakidakos, of National and Kapodistrian University … Continued

Contrary to the common belief, e-mailed newsletters are not outdated, but rather making a “come-back”, writes Charlotte Fagerlund, a London School of Economics fellow and a journalist for the newspaper … Continued

Media in Hungary is suffering from more or less veiled censorship, recent reports state. Zoltan Sipos, writing on the Index on Censorship website, goes through the 15 violations reported to … Continued

Marina Dekavalla, of University of Stirling, United Kingdom, explores the framing of referendum campaigns in the press and its relationship to the framing of elections. She draws from an empirical analysis of the … Continued

International journalists’ organizations and movements are always, to some part, molded by their political surroundings, write Kaarle Nordenstreng, of University of Tampere (emeritus), and Frank Beyersdorf, of both the Free … Continued

What can and cannot be calculated is not merely a technical question, it is also a deeply social, cultural, political and economic one, writes Taina Bucher, of University of Copenhagen, Denmark. … Continued

The anchors of BBC’s daily radio news show Today sometimes violate their own editorial rules on impartiality, write Philip Mitchell, of University of South Wales, and James Stewart, of Cardiff … Continued