Journal Description
Journalism is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that provides a dedicated forum for articles from the growing community of academic researchers and critical practitioners with an interest in journalism. The journal is interdisciplinary and publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributes to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism. It includes contributions on current developments and historical changes within journalism.
The journal publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributes to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism. It includes contributions on current developments and historical changes within journalism.
Journalism adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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- by Matthew PowersJournalism, Ahead of Print. This paper examines news organizations’ shifting editorial and commercial strategies towards statehouse reporting – an important but often neglected form of sub-national journalism in the United States. Through interviews with reporters, editors, and management in one state (Washington), we find that many news organizations are adapting their coverage to better align with transformations in both politics and journalism. The specific strategy an organization adopts, however, depends on its position among statehouse news providers. Established news organizations foreground the impact of policy developments on ‘ordinary’ citizens’ lives in an effort to entice audiences assumed to ignore such […]
- by Sarah LonsdaleJournalism, Ahead of Print.
- by Hannes CoolsJournalism, Ahead of Print. This commentary explores academia’s role in co-creating research with media partners, focusing on the distinct roles and challenges that each stakeholder brings to such partnerships. Starting from the perspective of the AI, Media, and Democracy Lab, and building on the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects (ELSA) approach, we share key learnings from 3 years of collaborations with (media) partners. We conclude that navigating dual roles, expectations, output alignment, and a process of knowledge sharing are important requirements for academics and (media) partners to adequately co-create research and insights. We also argue that these key lessons do not […]
- by Hallvard MoeJournalism, Ahead of Print. This paper asks how people make sense of climate issues in the news. As part of a study in Norway, with repeated interviews and open-ended questionnaires, we invited people to share their thoughts on three real and recent news stories. The examples were related to climate change on local, national and global scales, with varying levels of conflict and different narrative frameworks and visual components. We find that news articles with different characteristics invited three modes of sense-making: inconclusive reasoning, moral stance-taking, and reiterating climate discourse. Our study contributes to untangle central questions about how journalism […]
- by Rita AraújoJournalism, Ahead of Print. Journalism studies’ literature on precarity has mainly focused on job insecurity, job loss, and the increase of atypical work relationships. Several studies report a growing deterioration of journalists’ work conditions worldwide, indicating a precarization of journalism. Precarity may impact journalistic norms and routines, it may contribute to dissatisfaction and loss of quality of life, it may impact journalists’ health and wellbeing, and even the quality of news content. Journalists’ experiences of precarity should, therefore, be explored. This study aims at assessing Portuguese journalists’ perceptions of precarity through semi-structured interviews (N = 50) followed by a qualitative […]
- by Bronwyn JonesJournalism, Ahead of Print. In this paper, we provide reflections from an embedded action research project undertaken at the UK’s largest public service broadcaster, the BBC, over a three-year period. It was aimed at eliciting research insights about the role and understanding of AI in news production and also intervening to engender change in the newsroom. We surface the messy realities of conducting this work, including the challenges to funding such long-term and resource-intensive research and the difficulties of measuring impacts. We include practical guidance to demystify the process of action-oriented research that strives for targeted change in news contexts, […]
- by Luming ZhaoJournalism, Ahead of Print. Previous literature has explored how the penetration of platforms into the news sector influences the organization, production, and dissemination of journalism. However, it has overlooked the platformization within the backstage of journalism – how journalism scholarship intersects with practice. Utilizing the concept of relevance gap, this study explores whether the platformization of journalism scholarship can meaningfully contribute to journalistic practices. Focusing on the case study of China’s WeChat Public Accounts (WPAs), and drawing from in-depth interviews with 26 Chinese journalists, our findings reveal four perceptions that journalists hold towards various journalism research on the quadrants of […]
- by Rabia QusienJournalism, Ahead of Print. Smog is one of the major environmental challenges for many countries, leading to various health implications for the public across the globe, especially in the Global South. It has been affecting the most populous province of Pakistan, Punjab. A cross-sectional research design is employed to analyse media coverage of two different episodes of smog (2017 and 2019) in six Pakistani newspapers through qualitative content analysis. Systematic random sampling was employed, which resulted in a corpus of 356 news items. The analysis concluded that Urdu newspapers cover the issue of smog relatively more than English newspapers. Six […]
- by Martin MontgomeryJournalism, Ahead of Print.
- by Tamar WilnerJournalism, Ahead of Print. Journalism practitioners rarely apply research to their practice, and often decline to supply their time to support research. These issues indicate a research-practice gap in journalism. Yet efforts to characterize the gap are in their infancy. This study uses 16 semi-structured interviews with US journalism practitioners to understand, first, how practitioners characterize the applicability of research to their work; and second, how they describe the nature of and reasons for the research-practice gap in journalism. We applied the framework of institutional logics to understand the conflicts that might contribute to the gap at the intra-organizational and […]
- by Marianne Borchgrevink-BrækhusJournalism, Ahead of Print. People relate to news in highly complex ways. Research on news audiences has identified how content reception, user practices, and spatiotemporal contexts influence relations to news. This study aims to see these dimensions as connected, emphasizing the significance of understanding how news content, practices, and people’s situatedness resonate in the context of everyday life and how this resonance reflects personal identity. Conceptually, the paper employs the concept of news experience as an analytical lens to understand the multilayered nature of how people relate to news. Empirically, six distinct forms of news experience are identified, all in […]
- by Paschalia (Lia) SpyridouJournalism, Ahead of Print. News media concentration raises concerns associated with the power to influence policy, political developments and public debates. Low entry-barriers and reduced production and distribution costs in the web era promised a more pluralistic media landscape, which has thus far failed to materialise as reputational, technical and financial resources tend to confer cumulative advantages for larger and more established media organisations. In this study, we examine economic and ownership concentration for the 80 most popular news websites in Greece. Contrary to the traditional news media industry of the country and its European counterparts we find the Greek […]
- by Ville JE ManninenJournalism, Ahead of Print. The consolidation of media ownership has been argued to be either the downfall or the salvation of the newspaper industry, depending on the perspective. Yet the impact of consolidation on newspaper content remains ambiguous. In this paper, we compare the output of 69 local newspapers (one issue per newspaper; 2133 items) published in Finland, some of them owned by major newspaper corporations, others by smaller companies. We code for item length, localness, authorship and, most importantly, we use a detailed content analysis to evaluate whether each article meets the readers’ Critical Information Needs, originally identified by […]
- by Lucia MesquitaJournalism, Ahead of Print. In an era of globalisation, journalism transcends national and cultural boundaries, with international events commanding significant media attention. This evolution necessitates researching the complex networks that produce news in our interconnected world. This study examines the transformative impact of collaborative journalism in Latin America, focusing on cross-border alliances and their dual role in enhancing journalistic safety and solidarity. Notable efforts such as Tierra de Resistentes, Lava Jato, and regional teams behind the Panama and Pandora Papers demonstrate the power of collective journalistic efforts in the region. This research investigates how journalists and news outlets implement cross-border […]
- by AdekamwaJournalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 498-500, February 2025.
- by Wufan JiaJournalism, Ahead of Print. The digitalization of media creates an environment for users to engage in indirect contact with outgroup members whom they would otherwise not make contact with in real life. This research investigated how vicarious contact (observing intergroup interactions) via user comments on news articles reduced readers’ prejudice against outgroups and the moderating roles of direct contact in such effects. An online experiment (N = 700) demonstrated that for participants with limited positive direct contact with HIV-positive individuals, positive vicarious contact with HIV-positive individuals via user comments increased their intentions to interact with HIV-positive individuals. In contrast, for […]
- by Mirjam de BruijnJournalism, Ahead of Print. The study combines domain expertise and computational community detection to uncover what role citizen journalists and social media platforms play in mediating the dynamics of conflict in Mali. Under conditions of the growing conflict in Mali, citizen journalists are opening Twitter (rebranded as X) accounts to stay updated and tweet about the ongoing socio-political tensions, chronicling life in a conflict-ravaged context. This article conceptualizes the rapid reliance on Twitter among citizen journalists consisting of bloggers, activists, government officials and NGO’s as a form of networked conflict and networked journalism. Networked journalism emerges as professional journalists adopt […]
- by Stuart AllanJournalism, Ahead of Print.
- by Christopher CimaglioJournalism, Ahead of Print. Widespread claims charging news media with intentionally presenting false information to advance a political agenda are commonly understood as a recent phenomenon driven by the rise of right-wing populism. This article unpacks the prominence of charges of false news in the 1930s and 1940s United States among progressives who identified the commercial press as a powerful conservative force working on behalf of economic elites and against progressive movements. It argues that liberal and left critics deployed claims of falsehood in news as they sought to convince audiences that dominant news institutions were unworthy of their trust, […]
- by Christine FlammiaJournalism, Ahead of Print. Journalism instruction has long assumed curiosity is integral to the work, but there has not been a systematic study that engages psychological or sociological curiosity theory in the journalistic process. Instead, it’s assumed that curiosity means the same thing to all people, that all journalists engage curiosity in similar ways. Journalism instruction and practice therefore suffers from a shallow understanding of how curiosity affects the stories produced. Drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews with U.S. feature journalists and editors, I found feature journalists use their sense of curiosity to explore possible story ideas on multiple levels. Through […]