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Research of May 2026

Journalism Research of May 2020

Here is a list of all academic peer-reviewed articles, reports and other papers published in May 2026 about journalism research. The bolded titles have JRN articles written about the studies.

PublishedTitleAuthor(s)Journal publisher
2026-05-02From solidarity to rejection: Moral panic toward Rohingya refugees in Aceh (Indonesia)EriyantoMedia, War & Conflict
2026-05-03News circulation on social media platforms: A longitudinal study of news sharing and source diversityIris Marijke Baas,
Marc Esteve del Valle,
Tommaso Caselli,
Marcel Broersma
New Media & Society
2026-05-03Burning bridges as career imperative? Accountability, journalistic identity and police sourcesMichael Roy Hames-García,
Mary Angela Bock,
Diana Garcia
Journalism
2026-05-03Digital vulnerabilitiesAnne Kaun,
Maria Arnelid,
Petter Falk,
Desirée Enlund,
Ericka Johnson,
Sara Mörtsell,
Olof Sundin,
Fredrik Stiernstedt
Media, Culture & Society
2026-05-04NEW CALL : Laughter and JournalismFlorence Le CamSur Le Journalisme
2026-05-04“I could have done more”: Vicarious trauma expression and self-attribution among journalists’ social issues reportingQi Yin,
Xiruo Lyu,
Shiyu (Sharon) Zheng
Journalism
2026-05-04Framing discrimination in the news: A mixed-methods analysis of frames in Belgian newspapersLise-Lore Steeman,
Marte Everaerts,
David De Coninck,
Leen d’Haenens
Journalism
2026-05-04‘. . .When you’ve walked the streets donned the uniform or lived with the consequences at home then you have the right to speak and be heard’: Short-form true crime podcasts and the police imageLaura Vitis Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
2026-05-04Online Representation of Roma People: Facebook News Production and Audience Engagement in Four European NationsUmberto Famulari & Travis WilsonJournalism Practice
2026-05-04Reconstructing Media Memory of Golden Age: A Study of Women’s Mnemonic Practices in “Television Yan’an”Xue Wang & Shirui FengJournalism Practice
2026-05-04The Platformisation of Sports Broadcasting: The Case of DAZN and the Belgian Pro LeagueTom Evens,
Paul Smith
Television & New Media
2026-05-04The many meanings of measure: Social media metrics and their implications for collective organizing in the influencer economyVictoria O’MearaNew Media & Society
2026-05-04The Synthetic and Sincere: Imitation and Immediacy in Anthony Bourdain’s Media AfterlifeLauren RandallTelevision & New Media
2026-05-05Privacy before CampbellMichael TugendhatJournal of Media Law
2026-05-05Regulating for care: Reality television participation, changes to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code and protection for whom?Helen Wood,
Mhairi Brennan
Media, Culture & Society
2026-05-05Towards a critical socio-technical model of journalism training in the age of artificial intelligenceAndrés Barrios-RubioCommunication Research and Practice
2026-05-05“Devil”, “scammer” and “troublemaker”: How is an educator role model promoted in a Negativity-based news interview?Juan He Journalism
2026-05-05Save As…: The PDF as archive, authentic interface and epistemic objectJaime Lee Kirtz Media, Culture & Society
2026-05-06“AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and calloutsMel StanfillCritical Studies in Media Communication
2026-05-06Journalists’ Safety in Transitional Media Systems: Evidence from Post-Reform EthiopiaMelkamu Mekonnen Mazengia, Jemal Mohammed Haile & Negesse Belay GesseseJournalism Practice
2026-05-06Public Service Media in Ireland following reunification? Comparative approaches and critical questionsPhil Ramsey,
Roddy Flynn,
Stephen Baker,
Dawn Wheatley
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2026-05-06Framing Transit Migration: Media Discourses and Power in North AfricaMohamed Ben Moussa & Bouziane ZaidAfrican Journalism Studies
2026-05-07Not only compatriots: A typology of foreign Facebook audiences engaging with Russia’s domestic newsJulia Kling,
Serge Poliakoff
Media, War & Conflict
2026-05-07Who Controls the Narrative? How Brazilian Parliamentarians Pursue Epistemic Authority in Times of Crisis
André K. Rodarte, Carolina V. Kuahara & Ahmer Arif
Digital Journalism
2026-05-07Fact-Checkers’ Perceptions of Their Roles and Challenges in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, and South AfricaChristian Nounkeu Tatchou,Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam,Chinedu Richard Ononiwu & Enock Magack MasakiJournalism Practice
2026-05-07The shifting terrains of framing sexuality: The difference in discourse around celebrity death, disease, and memory in news mediaNur E. Makbul and Mohammed Rashid Discourse & Communication
2026-05-07Shaping Interpersonal Communication About Persuasive Media Campaigns by Inducing Critical Versus Collective OrientationsShu Scott Li,
James Price Dillard
Communication Research
2026-05-08Imagined audiences as interpretive filters: Metrics and journalistic role performance across two magazine brands within one media organisationPauljan Truyens Journalism
2026-05-08Contextual gatekeeping in a platformized news ecologyShira Dvir-Gvirsman,
Lidor Ivan
Journalism
2026-05-08Liking, Commenting, Sharing: Journalistic Intermediation Practices on Digital PlatformsAnna-Theresa Mayer, Lion Wedel, Jakob Ohme & Christoph NeubergerJournalism Studies
2026-05-08The Impact of Zane Gonzalez’s Media Discussions About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder on Intentions to Share OCD AwarenessLeticia Couto & Eylul YelCommunication Reports
2026-05-09“We Are the Final Cog in the Wheel of Democracy”: Disappearing Community Journalism in a Rural Region of the U.S. SouthMiglena Sternadori,
Robert Peaslee,
Lucinda Holt,
Melissa Santillana,
Brittany Potter
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-05-09Thrills, tears, and deep state fears: links between entertainment media preferences and conspiracy beliefMax Erdemandi & Anita Atwell SeateCommunication Quarterly
2026-05-09It’s Trauma SeasonSharon SmithJournalism Studies
2026-05-09Going with the Mainstream: Exploring GPT Representation of Journalistic CultureTaewoo Kang,
Tim Vos,
Thomas Hanitzsch,
Neil Thurman,
Imke Henkel,
Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri,
Wiebke Loosen
The International Journal of Press/Politics
2026-05-09“We Are the Final Cog in the Wheel of Democracy”: Disappearing Community Journalism in a Rural Region of the U.S. SouthMiglena Sternadori,
Robert Peaslee,
Lucinda Holt,
Melissa Santillana,
Brittany Potter
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-05-11When an AI Says It Is False: User Responses to Misinformation Flagging by Automated vs. Human Fact-Checkers
Mengqi Liao,Sian Lee, Annie Dooley, Aiping Xiong & S. Shyam Sundar
Media Psychology
2026-05-11In search of purpose: The ABC, SBS, and the uncertain future of public service media in AustraliaAnna Potter,
Kevin Sanson
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2026-05-11Surviving the ‘cross fire’: How journalists navigate control to report on the Cameroon Anglophone crisisEdwin NforMedia, War & Conflict
2026-05-11Narrating China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: Ideological discourses and media representations in BBC podcastsLaksup Apirakvanalee & Yida ZhaiThe Communication Review
2026-05-11Print, power, and modernity: the political economy of newspapers in Afghanistan before 1979Somaya ShafiqiContinuum
2026-05-11Tri-layered accountability in influencer marketing: the case of SpainMarta Martin-Llaguno, Sandra Arias Montesinos & Concepción Campillo AlhamaJournal of Media Law
2026-05-11Conflict, humour and reconcilement in Palestine, Israel and Northern IrelandLouise Harrington Media, War & Conflict
2026-05-12Is artificial intelligence empowering or posing risks to feminism and women’s rights? Evidence from global press coverageMuhammad Awais Media, Culture & Society
2026-05-12Reinforcing Relationship Between Alternative Media Use and Societal Beliefs? Issue Politicization and Asymmetrical Effects as Boundary ConditionsIsabella Glogger & Adam ShehataDigital Journalism
2026-05-12Clustered governance: how Chinese social media platforms curate and control influencers’ content creationRendan LiuInformation, Communication & Society
2026-05-12The Legal, Institutional, and Cultural Foundations of AI Pedagogy in Global South Journalism EducationKevin C. Mudavadi,
Sima Bhowmik,
Gregory Gondwe,
Lenah Chelangat,
Samwel Gasuku,
Victor Kalalanda
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-05-13From neutrality to engagement: Young audiences’ evaluations of interventionist journalism across media platformsBirte Leonhardt,
Bernadette Uth
Journalism
2026-05-14“Dying in harness:” How news workers’ obituaries in the 20th century served as meta-journalistic discourse about trauma and copingWill Mari Journalism
2026-05-14Examining the influence of social media cues and platform perceptions on fake news detectionJiajing Tang & Barbara MilletInformation, Communication & Society
2026-05-14What Americans think it takes to be a good news consumerElisa ShearerPew Research Center
2026-05-14Who Speaks Out, Why, and How? The Influence of Hostile Media Perception, Attitude Extremity, and Political Efficacy on Social Media OutspokennessFangcao Lu, Caixie Tu & Xigen LiMass Communication and Society
2026-05-14Der Spiegel ArchiveSheila B. LalwaniAmerican Journalism
2026-05-14Television Buyers as Institutional Cultural Intermediaries in Centralizing Alternative Media FlowsFengYi Yin Television & New Media
2026-05-15Propaganda in Pre-Soviet Caucasian Press at The Example of Comparative Analysis of Georgian Newspapers: ‘Ertoba’ (1919) and ‘Sakartvelo’ (1919)Tsitsino BukiaMedia History
2026-05-15A study of alternative media from the Global South/ non-Western perspective: Scrutinizing how “alternativeness” varies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastShangyuan Wu,
Thorsten Quandt,
Saïd Unger
Journalism
2026-05-15Sport as a commercial media spectacle: The case of the “F1: The Movie”Dhwanil Shah,
Jennifer M. Proffitt
Media, Culture & Society
2026-05-15“Who do I think I am and where do I get off becoming a radio commentator?”: The “woman from Weehawken” as a mediated legend in Orson Welles CommentariesAndrew W. Cole & Thomas A. SalekAtlantic Journal of Communication
2026-05-16Olympic Social Presence in Saudi Arabia: Media and Social TV Usage in Middle Eastern Sport MediaBoyang Ding, Mutaz Barnawi, Yifan Wu, Andrew C. Billings & Kenon A. BrownJournal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
2026-05-16AI Claims Authority: How Source and Corrective Strategy Shape Perceived Credibility in Combating MisinformationJunyi Chen, Fankai Dai & Yi MouJournal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
2026-05-17“@?”: Authorship and Newsroom Image Crediting Practices on InstagramAlex Scott & Kyser LoughJournalism Practice
2026-05-17Polarized or Fragmented? How Social Identities Relate to Political Cleavages and Media Use Across European Countries
Nora Theorin, Davide Melita, Jesper Strömbäck & Ana Guinote
Media Psychology
2026-05-18Moving Journalism in a New Direction? Business Models of Digital News Organizations in KazakhstanCindy Price Schultz, Karylga Myssayeva & Md. Saddam HosseinInternational Journal on Media Management
2026-05-18The Ethiopian media law reform: a textual reform without change in journalistic practice?Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew & Mulatu Alemayehu MogesJournal of Media Law
2026-05-18Linking online partisan news exposure with affective polarization and perceived ideological sorting via political discussionsRachel L. NeoAtlantic Journal of Communication
2026-05-18Press emotional advocacy: how experiential events transform journalists into brand narrative co-creatorsMargarita Gil-Jerez, Mariola Moreno & Arantxa Vizcaíno-VerdúCommunication Research and Practice
2026-05-18Representing the “Other” Within the Nation: Content Diversity in French-speaking Belgian Public Broadcasting (2020–2024)Ellen Thorisaen, Sarah Van Leuven & Catherine BoukoJournalism Practice
2026-05-19Beyond neutrality? Australian media coverage of the Israel–Gaza warRayan Merkbawi,
Bronwen Dalton
Media, War & Conflict
2026-05-19Practicing Regional Climate Journalism: Challenges Faced by Climate Reporters in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern PakistanAkber Ali, Sibtain Abbas & Zakir HussainJournalism Practice
2026-05-19Ethnic Identity and the Repression of Journalists Covering Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia (2020–2024)Muluken Asegidew Chekol, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges & Kristin S. OrgeretJournalism Practice
2026-05-19Fear, Anger, and Mistrust: How Right-wing Alternative Media Influences Political Trust and Emotions about PoliticsAndreas Nanz The International Journal of Press/Politics
2026-05-19From mainstream to the margins: Regime-driven delegitimisation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy critical journalistic normsJoyce Y. M. NipMedia, Culture & Society
2026-05-20News Consumption, Military Interventionism, and Support for Anti-Democratic MovementsRachel R. Mourão, Marialina Antolini, Marcos Paulo da Silva, Tim Vos & Leilane RodriguesMass Communication and Society
2026-05-20Surrogate Ethnocentrism in U.S. Media Coverage of the 2023 to 2025 Israel–Gaza War: Humanization, Sourcing, Framing, and Emotive Language in Two “Papers of Record”Mohamad Hamas Elmasry Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2026-05-21The Consumption of Pink Slime Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?Ross Dahlke, Ryan C. Moore, Priyanjana Bengani & Jeffrey T. HancockDigital Journalism
2026-05-21Mobile-first journalism and the new gatekeepers: Participatory news production in informal economies in South AfricaWonder JuniperMedia, Culture & Society
2026-05-21AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLMJill Walker Rettberg Media, Culture & Society
2026-05-21Media, nationalism, and environmental degradation: Tropes and narratives of crisis and conflict in Hungary and IndiaGergely Ferenc Lendvai and Mari Lee MifsudMedia, War & Conflict
2026-05-21Towards an efficacy model of Peace Journalism: Engaged audience responses to Sport media in Israeli divided society from 2023 to 2024Chen Kertcher Journalism
2026-05-21Producing literary taste on social media: distinction and mediatization in the Instagram literary magazineMoch. Zainul ArifinContinuum
2026-05-21Same Same But (Very) Different? A Mixed-Method Approach on Security-Related News Consumption on Traditional and Social Media and Its Relation to Negative Emotional Responses and Feelings of (In)SecurityInes Spielvogel, Kevin Koban, Sarah Juricek & Jörg MatthesDigital Journalism
2026-05-21Press and Prejudice: an Interview Study on Politicians’ Perceptions of Partisan News Media BiasKarolin Soontjens, Kathleen Beckers, Emma van der Goot & Sophie MorosoliPolitical Communication
2026-05-22Embrace the AI, but keep the journalist: Public attitudes toward AI involved fact-checking in ChinaXiaotong Chen,
Tianru Guan
Journalism
2026-05-22The WIPR: Arts and Culture in Puerto Rico CollectionLillian E. Agosto MaldonadoAmerican Journalism
2026-05-22Double-edged press: Framing war and peace negotiation in the Ethiopian state newspaperMelkamu Mekonnen Mazengia,
Abera Yenework Kebede
Media, War & Conflict
2026-05-22Rethinking news media logic in the coverage of the Cabo Delgado conflict in Mozambique in the digital eraAllen Munoriyarwa Media, War & Conflict
2026-05-23The enduring legacy of Campbell v MGN Ltd in Australian privacy lawNormann Witzleb, Megan Richardson & Michael RivetteJournal of Media Law
2026-05-23Capturing the fourth estate: A case study of Bangladesh news mediaSima BhowmikJournalism
2026-05-23Building resilience to misinformation: A cross-national development of the Digital Media and Information Literacy Scale (DMILS)Sijia Qian,
Cuihua Shen,
Huiyi Wang,
Hichang Cho
New Media & Society
2026-05-23Automated Trust: Humans, AI, Misinformation, and Algorithmic Fact-Checking from the Perspective of Truth-Default TheoryTimothy R. LevineJournal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
2026-05-23Building resilience to misinformation: A cross-national development of the Digital Media and Information Literacy Scale (DMILS)Sijia Qian,
Cuihua Shen,
Huiyi Wang,
Hichang Cho
New Media & Society
2026-05-24Making public allegations: media law in its social contextN. A. MorehamJournal of Media Law
2026-05-25“We're very isolated professionally”: Learning and doing visual journalism in uncertain communities of practiceT. J. Thomson,
Rachael Anderson
Journalism
2026-05-25Solutions journalism and infotainment: A framing analysis of last week tonight with john oliverCleves Nkie Mongo,
Yelena Dzhanova
Journalism
2026-05-25Global media ethics: a feminist interventionLindsay Palmer & Radhika GajjalaFeminist Media Studies
2026-05-25Feminist ethics in media ethnography: field notes on studying pornographic culturesDarshana Sreedhar MiniFeminist Media Studies
2026-05-25Advancing Investigative Reporting Through Data Journalism: Insights from Journalists in the Ghanaian MediaSamuel DansoJournalism Practice
2026-05-25Symbolic Custodians on Facebook: Community Media Agents and Religious Practices in FaialPedro S. LucasSocial Media + Society
2026-05-262027 : Les avant-gardes du journalisme / As vanguardas do jornalismo Florence Le CamSur Le Journalism
2026-05-26“Owning the microphone, silencing the village? Board politics and journalistic autonomy in community radio newsrooms in Limpopo Province, South Africa”Wonder JuniperJournalism
2026-05-26Teaching Journalism in an AI Age: Human–Technology Fit, Creativity, and JudgmentDebora Wenger,
John Cokley
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
2026-05-26Campbell at 20: where now for the balancing act?Helen FenwickJournal of Media Law
2026-05-26Deference vs. defiance: deciphering media’s influence on censorship support in ChinaDongni Li & Steve GuoAsian Journal of Communication
2026-05-26Editor’s NoteRegina G. LawrencePolitical Communication
2026-05-27Visual moralization of conflict on TikTok: A typology of journalistic framingLaila Abbas,
Aliaa K. ElShabassy,
Shahira S. Fahmy
Media, War & Conflict
2026-05-27“We’re selling tea towels, believe it or not!”: exploring place as currency in the battle for local news sustainabilityAlison McAdam & Kristy HessJournal of Media Business Studies
2026-05-27Sumud as journalistic practice: Palestinian journalists navigate trauma and resistance in GazaNoha Mellor,
Nada Alzara
Journalism
2026-05-28“Hi everyone, I am Yilong Ma”: Synthetic impersonators and despicable celebrities in global media circuitsGabriele de SetaFirst Monday
2026-05-28Partisan podcasters: “Roast” universalism and comedy as platform currencyNicola BozziFirst Monday
2026-05-28Between media capture and journalistic autonomy: The lived experience of Indian journalistsMadhavi Ravikumar,
Nimmagadda Bhargav,
John Downey,
Rohit K Dasgupta,
Vinod Pavarala
Journalism
2026-05-28Factors of political influence on journalistic activities in a post-communist consolidated democracyDeimantas Jastramskis Journalism
2026-05-28Uzbekistan’s journalists caught between caution and hopeBeate Josephi,
Berdak Bayimbetov,
Mukarram Otamurodova
Journalism
2026-05-28Reading, writing, rumour: press readership and the making of war knowledge in Australia 1914–1918Bart ZiinoMedia History
2026-05-28Expecting Humans, Encountering Machines: An Expectancy Violations Theory Approach to Generative AI in JournalismRyan J. Thomas, T. J. Thomson ,Hannes Cools, Rebecca Venema, Oscar Toohey, Caroline Gardam, Edina Strikovic, Michelle Riedlinger & Jean BurgessJournalism Studies
2026-05-28Older adults’ perceptions, needs, and uses of social media and messenger apps as sources of information and news: a qualitative multi-method studyLuise Anter, Martin Fischer & Anna Sophie KümpelInformation, Communication & Society
2026-05-28Communicating vaccine concerns in elite science journalism during public health crises: a corpus-assisted discursive news values analysisBixi JinCommunication Research and Practice
2026-05-29Addressing Media Harm and Community Relationships through an Ethic of LoveDanielle K. Brown,
Perry Parks,
Jessica Pettengill,
Jung-Hsiang (Eric) Hsieh,
Jasmine Snow,
Jarrad Henderson
The International Journal of Press/Politics
2026-05-29Ethics First: How Trust and Political Contexts Shape Public Acceptance of AI-Generated News Across Twenty-four CountriesJinpeng Wang,
Xin Yu
The International Journal of Press/Politics
2026-05-29SLAPPs in Aotearoa New ZealandMark HannaJournal of Media Law
2026-05-29The Hidden Cost of Science News: An Examination of Burnout in Journalists and ScientistsJosh T. L. Anderson & Anthony DudoJournalism Studies
2026-05-29Resilience in Newsrooms in Times of Authoritarian Resurgence: We Went From the Sky to Under the GroundFatima El Issawi, Joshua E. RiggInternational Journal of Communication
2026-05-29Can Pandora’s Box Be Closed? How People in Myanmar Access and Identify Trustworthy Information After the CoupArdeth Maung Thawnghmung, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Tun Tun Lynn, Catherine Abou-KhalilInternational Journal of Communication
2026-05-30The moral of the story: Journalists’ perceptions of moral injury riskKari E. James,
Blake M. McKimmie,
Ryan Ver Maas,
Fiona Maccallum
Journalism
2026-05-30Uniting the world behind Ukraine: The platformization of United24 Media’s narratives on Instagram and YouTube and the in/visibilization of warSimon HogueMedia, War & Conflict
2026-05-30Identifying profiles of US tween and teen media users: A differential susceptibility approach to the 2019 and 2021 waves of the Common Sense CensusCecilia Sada Garibay, Matthew A. Lapierre & Leah DajchesJournal of Children and Media
2026-05-30Censorship v the public interest: measuring the extent and impact of editorial mediation in trade book publishingKatherine DayJournal of Media Law
2026-05-30Protest, surveillance and privacyJelena GligorijevicJournal of Media Law
2026-05-31What Is Ethical AI Use in Journalism? Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Ethical Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Usage in Kenyan NewsroomsBingbing Zhang,
Kevin C. Mudavadi,
Brian Ekdale,
Brett Johnson,
Melissa Tully,
Nur Hossain,
Jonas Nyabor,
Shitemi Khamadi
The International Journal of Press/Politics
2026-05-31Representations of Chinese migrant workers in Singaporean newspapersHan Xiao,
Zenghui Yu
Journalism
2026-05-31Mapping the disinformation industry in RussiaSerge Poliakoff,
Julia Kling
New Media & Society
2026-05-31Journalism for People, for Elite: Redefining the Protest Paradigm Through the Lens of Peace-oriented JournalismM. A. AhmadAfrican Journalism Studies
2026-05-31From News Literacy to Skepticism: Examining the Pathways That Shape the “News-Finds-Me” PerceptionYing Xiong,
Xu Zhang
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly