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).
Journal Feed
- by Diego Garusi27258University of Vienna, Austria,Journalism, Ahead of Print. Research broadly agrees that geographical and social proximity to local inhabitants determines the embeddedness of local journalists in the communities they cover. Yet, the role of such proximity in local journalists’ understanding of local inhabitants–…
- by John-Bell Sunday Okoye, Paul Mbutu, Levi Obonyo, James A Asande, Rahila Abubakar, Winnie Mbatha, Daniel Robert Aswani107887Daystar University, KenyaJournalism, Ahead of Print. The scholarly fascination with sourcing practices is a long tradition in media and communication studies due to the influence of sources over the production of news stories and in shaping the news narratives. In health journalism, the sourcing techniques …
- by Yani Zhao6177Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA,Journalism, Ahead of Print. Incidental news exposure occurs as individuals encounter news content while engaging in non-news-related activities on social platforms. Applying the Political Incidental News Exposure (PINE) model, this study uses a survey of US voters (N= 781) and …
- by Achmad Supardi188578President University, Indonesia,Journalism, Ahead of Print. The mass media helps shape public opinion. Rice importation is a shared national issue in the Philippines and Indonesia. Yet, there has not been a study that scrutinizes media reportage of rice importation in the two countries. Of interest in this study …
- by Saumava Mitra8818Dublin City University, Ireland,Journalism, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 759-766, April 2025.
- by Natasha van AntwerpenThe University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia,Journalism, Ahead of Print. Constructive journalism is an approach of increasing interest in journalism scholarship and practice. The approach draws on positive and cognitive psychology to underpin choices when reporting, such as including possible solutions, developments, context, …
- by Brian J. Bowe1632Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA,Journalism, Ahead of Print. This study reexamines the social media practices of the April 6th Youth Movement, which brought together a diverse group of reformist Egyptians in the 2011 uprisings. By conducting a comparative content analysis of Facebook posts from 2011 (N= 661) with …
- by Seong Jae MinPace University, New York, NY, USA,Journalism, Ahead of Print.
- by Stan Jastrzebski, Keren Henderson, Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley, Kevin Crowston2029Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USAJournalism, Ahead of Print. The recent addition of data journalists to several dozen U.S. public radio newsrooms has created multiple new hybridities in the form. No longer are numbers and large datasets “audio poison.” Instead, they are an essential tool for these journalists, who …
- by Belew Anley Taglo37602Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia,Journalism, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the state of the public sphere in the Ethiopian media during the country’s 2018 political reform. It reports on an innovative print format that has proved to be a public sphere. Drawing on methodological insight from quantitative …
- by Birte Leonhardt, Folker Hanusch27258University of Vienna, Austria,Journalism, Ahead of Print. Scholarship into the role that culture plays in journalistic role orientations and practices remains scarce, despite a small increase in recent years. Drawing on the concepts of journalistic embeddedness, cultural values and journalistic roles, this paper …
- by Jan Lauren Boyles1177Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA,Journalism, Ahead of Print. How does the entry of computation into newswork interplay with journalists’ role orientations? This study uncovers how journalists cultivate knowledge of computational newsgathering approaches within America’s smallest cities and towns. More narrowly, …
- by Stephanie ZQ Yang, Francis LF LeeSchool of Journalism and Communication, 26451The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR,Journalism, Ahead of Print. This study examines de-professionalization of journalism in the context of a society undergoing rapid autocratization. De-professionalization is understood as a process that undermines journalistic autonomy through the intertwined mechanisms of collective …
- by Lydia ChengUniversity of Sydney, NSW, Australia,Journalism, Ahead of Print. Journalists’ professional role conceptualisation contributes to a normative understanding of what journalism is. Current role research focuses mainly on journalism’s democratic and political function and less on journalism’s function in individuals’ …
- by Federica CherubiniDirector of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, UK,Journalism, Ahead of Print. This commentary examines the relationship between the journalism profession and academia, making the case for further bridging the gap between the two fields to foster better collaboration and mutual understanding. We begin by highlighting the …
- by Silvio R WaisbordThe George Washington University, Washington, DC, USAJournalism, Ahead of Print.
- by Esther Thorson3078College of Communication Arts, Michigan State University, USA,Journalism, Ahead of Print. This experiment test the effects of framing of climate change and finds that news stories that do not discuss the man-made cause of climate change, and do not use trigger words such as “global warming” and “climate change” are significantly better at …
- by Silvio R Waisbord356191The George Washington University, Bethesda, MD, USAJournalism, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 923-928, April 2025.
- by Gavin Adamson7984Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada,Journalism, Ahead of Print. This mixed-method study analyzes reports related to schizophrenia in Canadian news media during the calendar year 2022 (N= 237). The corpus was coded for tone, journalism sources and themes. Correlations between those elements were measured, and also …
- by Shadi Abu-Ayyash105957Liwa College (LC), United Arab EmiratesJournalism, Ahead of Print. This paper examines how Palestinian universities align their digital journalism curricula with the needs of the journalism industry, focusing on integrating digital technologies and practical skills within the context of military-occupied Palestine. The …