Journal Description
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). It is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal ranked in the Journal Citation Reports that focuses on research in journalism and mass communication. Established in 1924, JMCQ or the Quarterly is the oldest refereed scholarly journal in mass communication and provides leadership in scholarship for the field. It serves all the divisions and interest groups of AEJMC and publishes original articles and book reviews on topics including but not limited to theoretical and methodological developments in journalism and mass communication, international communication, media technologies and society, advertising, public relations, journalism history, media law and policy, media management and economics, political communication and health communication.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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- by Signe IvaskJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Marína UrbánikováJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Female journalists worldwide still struggle for adequate representation in leadership positions. This study contributes to the (mainly Western) scholarship on gender barriers in journalism by exploring the mechanism of vertical gender segregation in the journalistic profession in the Czech Republic, a non-Western country with the legacy of a women’s emancipation project sponsored by the former communist regime. Semi-structured interviews (N = 17) with female journalists in leadership positions revealed five main barriers: overall gender inequality in the Czech society; family and household responsibilities; lower self-esteem and ambition in women; sexism and sexual […]
- by Itai ZviyitaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. There is a deep-seated realization that the uptake of digitization in newsrooms has necessitated the need for an ethical reformation. This article examines ethical issues confronting operations of selected Namibian hybrid media organizations. Using the Namibia Media Holdings and The Namibian as case studies, this article argues that the platformization of news work, ever-changing technological landscape, the immediacy of internet, media sustainability concerns, and the changing nature of public interest have reconfigured ethical decision-making in hybrid media organizations in Namibia. It demonstrates that although traditional journalism ethics are still relevant, there are […]
- by Stefanie Kempton DavisJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study investigates how pregnancy and motherhood affect women journalists of the past and present. A mixed method approach of oral histories and qualitative interviews highlights how pregnancy and motherhood have affected women journalists over time, from 1950 to 2023. This article argues that because the U.S. newsroom was not conceptualized and built with women in mind, pregnant and new mother-journalists have faced historic and unique challenges. Findings from this mixed method approach present three major themes: the stigma of the pregnant journalist, the challenges of maternity leave policies, and the obstacles […]
- by Mingxiao SuiJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. During COVID-19, Asian Americans were perceived as a threat to the American society, which could have led to heightened media scrutiny and a shift in media portrayals. This study examines this question with a quantitative analysis of crime stories sampled from five newspapers (2019–2021). Our results suggested that large-scale social events such as COVID-19 might have transformed media representations of Asians and other racial groups, with noteworthy variability: (a) When considering all types of crimes, during the pandemic, news about lawbreaking activities by Asian perpetrators almost doubled that of before-COVID period. No […]
- by Danielle DeavoursJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Credibility is an ancient, well-studied, complicated construct. Most credibility measurements consider messenger (ethos) and/or message (logos). Aristotle’s definition includes pathos—the speaker’s emotion, important in visual journalism but rarely applied to visual mediums. This experimental research seeks to fill that gap. It analyzed 45 variables representing ethos, logos, and pathos. High correlations among Aristotle’s three concepts suggest the need to consider each when measuring visual journalism credibility. Factor analysis yielded a three-pronged credibility measure for visual journalists, with 15 variables representing the three concepts. The scale can be used with studies of visual […]
- by Joy KibarabaraJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Katherine OgnyanovaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The quality of information consumed by citizens remains a crucial aspect of a working democracy. In recent years, fact-checking has emerged as an important safeguard against the spread of false and misleading content. This themed article offers an overview of notable recent studies on this topic published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Included works examine the practices and effects of fact-checking across diverse national contexts.
- by Makenzie SchroederJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Given the importance of both family and partisanship in identity formation, these two may be at odds for those in cross-partisan families. Within these households, exposure to cross-partisan media is inevitable, serving to prime partisan identity and even acting as a catalyst for partisan conflict. Although much work has investigated the role of media in affective polarization, and the role of family in partisanship, little work bridges the two. Therefore, this post-test-only experiment (N = 411) investigates the role of family in the relationship between outgroup attack-focused partisan media exposure and affective […]
- by Gabriel Miao LiJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Previous studies have identified various individual factors explaining news avoidance, but the understanding of how these factors function within the broader political information environment is limited. This study, leveraging a large-scale cross-national survey, reveals that the relationships between individual news interests, news trust, and news avoidance differ across countries with varying levels of press freedom. In nations where the press is strong and free, personal preferences minimally influence individuals’ active avoidance of hard news. News avoidance is not solely a product of individual-level attributes. Rather, the impact of these individual factors is […]
- by Hayley BoothJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Phoebe MaaresJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Job Allan WefwafwaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Guodong JiangJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Daniela DimitrovaJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 1, Page 5-12, March 2024.
- by Joseph JeromeJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Suzannah Evans ComfortJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
- by Lindita CamajJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study explores discourse features on Facebook pages of news organizations during the 2020 U.S. primary debates using a state-of-the-art machine-learning model. Informing the scholarly debate about the implications of strategic game reporting in online spaces, we find that it is not necessarily linked to uncivil discourse, yet it might deter from relevant conversations. Second, addressing fears about the undesired outcomes of uncivil talk, our data suggest that incivility can coexist with rational discourse in user comments, although this relationship is not pervasive. Implications of these results are discussed in the context […]
- by Michael ChanJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 1, Page 13-19, March 2024. Across the globe, social media have become dominant channels of communication and news for many citizens. They also provide online spaces where misleading information can exacerbate social cleavages and political differences in societies, which can then lead to deleterious democratic outcomes. Therefore, much work has sought to understand the ways in which the effects of misinformation can be attenuated. This virtual theme collection highlights eight studies that examined the conditions in which individuals would actively verify information as well as the effectiveness of certain countermeasures designed to […]
- by Mengxue OuJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Research on factors influencing information credibility judgment is increasing, whereas their findings are mixed. This study conducted a meta-analysis of 85 empirical studies, synthesizing the effects of 12 frequently examined source, content, channel, and receiver factors on information credibility perception. Results reveal that message quality, source credibility, and message fluency have large correlations with credibility perception, while other factors show small-to-medium correlations. Personal topic knowledge does not have a significant relationship with credibility perception. Gender composition, information channel, topic, and research method significantly moderate the aggregated relationships. The theoretical and practical implications […]