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
- by Moses U. OkochaUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USAElectronic News, Ahead of Print.
- by Kevin Hull1School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCC, USAElectronic 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 …
- by Theresa de los Santos, Elizabeth Smith, Jillian Johnson1Communication Division, 5262Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USAElectronic 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, …
- by Tadele Mognehodie Workineh, Esayas Teshome TaddeseElectronic 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 …
- by Claudia Kozman, Raluca CozmaElectronic 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 …
- by Suzanne Lysak, Keren HendersonElectronic News, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 41-63, March 2025. This mixed methods study analyzes how broadcast news directors renegotiate their roles under organizational and cultural times of change. Even before COVID-19, local television news directors, one of the two predominant groups of journalism managers in …
- by Ellen K. Dunn1Mass Communications, 437976University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Blythewood, SC, USAElectronic News, Ahead of Print. 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 …
- by Mirjana Pantic, Paul Ziek1Dyson College of Arts and Science, 116470Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USAElectronic News, Ahead of Print. 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, …
- by Kelly Kaufhold1 Digital Media Innovation, Media Innovation Lab, 7174Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USAElectronic News, Ahead of Print. 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 …
- by Tom Dobber, Michael Hameleers1Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), 1234University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsElectronic News, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 3-18, March 2025. The comment section accompanying news stories on social media offers an important interactive context for news, but may also afford the possibility to spread anti-establishment, trust-eroding comments. Exposure to such comments may affect social media …
- by Nataliya Roman, Berrin Beasley1School of Communication, 4127University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USAElectronic News, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 19-40, March 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a rare opportunity for analysis of local American television news reporting during a global health crisis. Using Diffusion of Innovations as the theoretical framework of their study, researchers conducted 20 in-depth …
- by Ran Wei, Guy GolanElectronic 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 …