New article by Merel Borger and Anita van Hoof, of VU University Amsterdam, and José Sanders, of Radboud University Nijmege explores the assumptions that news organizations and journalists have about audience input. The authors conducted a content analysis of five different examples of participatory journalism in the Netherlands between 2010 and 2014 and examined the contents … Continued

Lindita Camaj, of University of Houston, has studied the collaboration between Bulgarian non-governmental organizations (NGO), Access to Information Programme (AIP), and local news media in lobbying for Freedom of Information right (FOI) in Bulgaria. The article explores how the relationship between journalists and civil society actors is negotiated in cases when they both serve a common public … Continued