Themes in award-winning scholastic photojournalism

The study “Visual representations of community in scholastic photojournalism: A thematic analysis of award-winning photographs from the national scholastic press association’s photo of the year contest” by Leslie Klein from University of Georgia looked at the understudied aspect of photojournalism: student photojournalists. It did so by analyzing qualitatively 229 photographs from  the National Scholastic Press … Continued

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Published: 27 Mar 2024

Article: (Pragmatic) collaboration for progress or threat to autonomy? African news discourses about Chinese technology in Nigeria and Ghana

This is a guest post by Edwin Nfor, a doctoral student in University of Jyväskylä. The study “(Pragmatic) collaboration for progress or threat to autonomy? African news discourses about Chinese technology in Nigeria and Ghana” by Dennis Nguyen , Bei Wang and Bruce Mutsvairo from the Utrecht University, The Netherlands studied the multifaceted portrayal of … Continued

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Published: 5 Mar 2024

Typology of Journalistic Collaboration

The study “New Guests Crashing the Party: A Typology of Journalistic Collaboration” by Patrick Walters from Washington and Lee University examined the variables when journalists collaborated with groups outside the traditional journalistic field – such as  nonprofits, universities, think tanks, artistic groups, and citizen journalists.  According to the author, collaboration has become a bit of … Continued

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Published: 5 Jan 2024