Electronic News

Journal Description

Electronic News is a quarterly journal devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of the news as disseminated through electronic media channels. This is the official journal of the Broadcast and Mobile Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Electronic News promotes and publishes research and ideas with clear relevance to the content, practice, education, and administration of news across radio, television, mobile, web, social, and streaming platforms.

Electronic News bridges between scholars and practitioners, providing opportunities to publish and read applied research, invited essays, and reviews of books relevant to electronic news as an evolving and dynamic practice.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Journal Description

• Utilizing Reddit for Journalistic Purposes: A Content Analysis of the Washington Post on Reddit
  May 5, 2025 by Jeremy Saks, Ashley Hopkins
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print. Social media is an integral part of the journalism ecosystem for both reporting and distributing news content. One space in the social media landscape that is receiving new significant growth in the journalism sphere while having differences in its social …
• Book Review: Performing the news: Identity, authority, and the myth of neutrality by Powers, E.
  February 24, 2025 by Moses U. OkochaUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print.
• “That was My Breaking Point”: COVID-19’s Impact on Local Television Sports Broadcasters Quitting Their Job
  February 24, 2025 by Kevin Hull1School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCC, USA
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print. In 2020, the sports world shut down for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many local television sports broadcasters found themselves having to adapt to not having games to cover or athletes and coaches to interview. Changes in their workplace roles, or …
• ‘Straight to the Source’: How Teens’ Experiences Shape Their Understanding of and Expectations for News
  February 20, 2025 by Theresa de los Santos, Elizabeth Smith, Jillian Johnson1Communication Division, 5262Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print. This study of U.S. youth provides insight into the knowledge of the journalistic process they have in place and how journalistic information is prioritized in their lives. Teen participants based in one area of the country were observed in a hands-on, …
• Contextualizing Peace Journalism: Framing the Ethiopian Peace Deal in the International Media
  February 20, 2025 by Tadele Mognehodie Workineh, Esayas Teshome Taddese
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print. This study aimed to assess the framing of the Ethio-Tigray peace deal held in Pretoria on 2ndNovember, 2022 in the international media. To this end, four international media outlets—Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and Reuters—were selected using purposive sampling …
• Comparing Headlines During Conflict: War and Peace Journalism in the Coverage of the 2023 Israel-Gaza War in the Associated Press and Qatar News Agency
  December 19, 2024 by Claudia Kozman, Raluca Cozma
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print. This study is a comparative content analysis of the Associated Press (AP) and Qatar News Agency (QNA) in their coverage of the 2023–2024 Israel-Gaza war. Focusing on the news headlines of AP and QNA in the first 4 months of the war, the study analyzed …
• Risk Propensity in Journalists
  October 17, 2024 by Ellen K. Dunn1Mass Communications, 437976University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Blythewood, SC, USA
  Electronic News, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 111-126, June 2025. Much like first responders, journalists run toward dangerous scenes instead of away from them, often putting themselves at risk. Unlike first responders, there is no research on how a person's risk propensity ties to their career. To gauge if need …
• Gatekeeping in a Digital Media Habitat: The Role of Secondary Gatekeepers
  October 3, 2024 by Mirjana Pantic, Paul Ziek1Dyson College of Arts and Science, 116470Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA
  Electronic News, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 94-110, June 2025. This study analyzed mission statements of mainstream news media in the United States and surveyed news consumers to investigate gatekeeping practices in a contemporary news ecosystem. Data show that news organizations expressed commitment to independence, …
• Does Tribe Trump Facts? Novel Measures of Hostile Media
  September 14, 2024 by Kelly Kaufhold1 Digital Media Innovation, Media Innovation Lab, 7174Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA
  Electronic News, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 67-93, June 2025. A national panel survey (n = 1,332) oversampled partisans (40% Democrat, 40% Republican, 20% Independent) and exposed them to an experiment showing partisan news sources (Fox News Channel and MSNBC) and partisan content, in a test of hostile media …
• Political Advertising on Social Media in the 2012 Presidential Election
  January 1, 2013 by Ran Wei, Guy Golan
  Electronic News, Ahead of Print. This study explores the perceived effects of political ads that appeared on social media in the 2012 presidential campaign from a third-person effect perspective. Results of a survey using a probability sample of 496 college students indicated that the …