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Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 50)
Financial Times     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 34)
Critical Studies in Media Communication     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 31)
Journalism     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 27)
Journalism Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 27)
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Media, War & Conflict     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
British Journalism Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
International Journal of Press/Politics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Asian Journal of Information Management     Open Access   (Followers: 12)
New Writing The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Australian Journalism Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 10)
Bronte Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Media Practice and Education     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Publizistik     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Technical Communication     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
Women's Writing     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
African Journalism Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Journal of Sports Media     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Electronic News     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Asia Pacific Media Educator     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Modern Periodical Studies     Full-text available via subscription  
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Journalism
Journal Prestige (SJR): 1.366
Citation Impact (citeScore): 2
Number of Followers: 27  
 
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ISSN (Print) 1464-8849 - ISSN (Online) 1741-3001
Published by Sage Publications Homepage  [1176 journals]
  • Responsible reporting on suicide in Slovenia: Are we there yet'

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      Authors: Vanja Gomboc, Diego De Leo, Vita Poštuvan
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Exposure to media reporting on suicide can be both a risk and a protective factor, as (ir)responsible reporting on suicide can have different effects on vulnerable people. Since online media are increasingly important in everyday life, this study aimed to examine how the three most widely read Slovenian online media report on suicide. 114 online media articles published between 1 January and 31 December 2017 were included in the study and assessed for compliance with recommendations on responsible media reporting on suicide, and inclusion of harmful and protective characteristics. Different articles included or adhered to different recommendations, and harmful and protective characteristics. The correlation between compliance with recommendations, and the inclusion of protective and harmful characteristics suggests that although articles comply with recommendations, they do not necessarily contain enough protective information. The study confirms patterns observed in other studies while providing a first insight into Slovenian online media reporting on suicide. Further research is needed to confirm our findings while considering different online media. Additionally, future studies should focus on other aspects of reporting on suicide, e.g., comments under online media articles, which might also impact readers.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-27T01:32:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241280735
       
  • News content promotion pressure: A content analysis of the cross-media
           visibility of and engagement with news stories

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      Authors: Kenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The research at hand centered around examining how news media manage their visibility, while navigating the challenges of invisibility posed by the platform economy. Platforms shape the visibility of news organizations and their content through algorithmic curation and moderation. In response, news organizations must exert considerable effort to maximize their visibility within these systems. The research identified and analyzed various deliberate promotional strategies aimed at enhancing an article’s visibility, including strategic posting across platforms, homepage placement, and extending content lifespan. By aggregating these strategies into a “promotion pressure” score, the study aims to unravel the circular relationship between news media’s content promotion strategies and audience engagement with news stories. Further analysis of the news articles with the highest promotion pressure shows that they are mostly related to major events, rely on news values such as conflict and personification, and frequently use clickbait headlines.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-24T02:43:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241279012
       
  • Gender in/and the news in the UK and Republic of Ireland: Slow but
           (un)steady progress'

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      Authors: Dawn Wheatley, Karen Ross, Cynthia Carter, Karen Boyle
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      For the half-century or so in which the relationship between women and news has been researched, two of the key themes have been the underrepresentation and marginalisation of women as both subjects/sources and journalists. The latest Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) iteration – the largest international collaborative study of women and news, running since 1995 – found the pace of change regarding women’s visibility across the news landscape to be painfully slow. Focusing on the 2020 data from the UK and Ireland, this article asks how visible are women in the news and how has this changed over time' It documents how women remain overshadowed as sources and subjects: for every two women seen or heard, there are five men. While the number of women journalists is gradually increasing, they are still less likely to cover prestigious beats such as politics and have the strongest showing as news anchors and presenters. In this article, we also use news about politics and COVID-19 as vignettes to illustrate how in times of crisis or when authoritative voices are sought, journalists are often drawn to those male sources who are already more present than women in positions of power. This contributes to the marginalisation of women’s voices in the most prominent news stories and undermines their right to full participation in democratic society.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-24T01:59:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241276836
       
  • Reckoning with subaltern science: The case of India’s The Wire
           Science

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      Authors: Subin Paul, David O. Dowling
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In light of the dominance of “Western” scientific discourse in English-language news media, the question arises regarding how and to what extent a prominent Global South-based science newsmagazine such as India’s The Wire Science positions itself with respect to indigenous cultural practices. Addressing this question, our essay critically examines The Wire Science’s “The Science of the Seas” feature series as one form of “subaltern science” stemming from the social hierarchy of caste. We work with the concept of subaltern science as a theoretical hook to show that the framing of the Indian fisherman in “The Science of the Seas” hardly casts him as a viable path for further inquiry so much as an exotic figure with an ancient, and deeply mystical, connection to the sea. Our analysis thus reveals that while the idea of representing subaltern fisher science in the English-language news media is novel, caste hierarchies are inscribed into the story narrative of “The Science of the Seas” in such a way that it prevents subaltern science from fully emerging, thereby reinforcing the primacy of Western science.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-24T01:33:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241277368
       
  • Legitimizing friends and denouncing enemies: A comparative analysis of
           Ukraine war coverage in China, South Korea, and Japan

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      Authors: Misook Lee, Rong Zhang, Kaori Hayashi
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study investigates how broadcast journalism in China, South Korea, and Japan covered the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine and analyzes the origins of the differences in news coverage. The framing employed during the initial stage is crucial, as it influences the dissemination of ideas and emotions, setting the tone for public perception. Thus, we conducted a framing analysis of news coverage by focusing on three critical dates during the initial stage of the crisis. Our analysis revealed significant disparities in defining the situation, interpreting the causes, assessing moral implications, and proposing solutions, with particularly pronounced differences in sourcing practices. We found that each country’s foreign policy, degree of state involvement, and collective memory were dynamic factors that framed Ukraine’s war. In particular, the varying degree of state involvement influenced the intensity of the “Us” versus “Them” dichotomy and the latitude given to the media in framing the issue.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-23T09:06:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241273672
       
  • “It’s a bit like pick and choose”: How young media users assign
           authority to cultural mediators

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      Authors: Sarah Vis, Ike Picone
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      As the boundaries between producers and consumers in both journalism and cultural industries continue to blur, questions arise about the changing gatekeeping and interpretational roles. The study examines how young adults assign authority to cultural mediators, ranging from traditional cultural journalists to social media personalities, when selecting and evaluating cultural goods. The aim is to understand how journalistic and non-journalistic voices intertwine in young adults’ cultural news consumption. The study builds on 31 in-depth interviews with young Belgian adults (age 18–28) focussing on participants’ social media use in relation to their cultural interests. Paradoxically, in an era of information overload where professional selection and interpretation could prove beneficial, the study identified various reasons why young media users favor non-journalistic mediators, such as their search for similarity. The findings also show how young adults resist journalistic curation to secure their own autonomy and uniqueness as cultural consumers. Nevertheless, journalistic mediators still gain credibility when evaluating cultural goods. The results highlight how young adults assign varying levels of authority to different guides at different stages in cultural consumption. The paper reflects on the implications for cultural journalism, emphasizing the evaluative rather than agenda-setting role of journalists.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-23T08:41:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274461
       
  • Threat or menace to media pluralism' A framework to assess alternative
           conspiracy media in today’s information landscape

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      Authors: Jolan Urkens, Jaron Harambam, Leen d’Haenens
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we examine recent changes in Western media landscapes that witnessed the emergence of alternative conspiracy media critiquing the epistemic hegemony of legacy media, and explore ways to analyze whether they contribute to or hinder democratic discourse. This pressing question depends not only on the empirical manifestations of such media outlets, but also on the ideal conceptualization of media pluralism, which is contingent upon the preferred democratic theory. In this article, we draw from and build upon the work of Daniëlle Raeijmaekers and Pieter Maeseele, and develop a framework to systematically compare media practices against different democratic ideals/theories. We conceptualize a set of criteria that are crucial for the functioning of democracy given each democratic line of thought. Focusing on the three most important contemporary schools – liberal, deliberative, and agonistic – we argue that evaluations of media practices should consider three concepts especially important for media’s functioning in democracy: actor diversity, discursive diversity, and epistemological diversity. We have developed a comparative framework designed for systematic evaluations of media practices, assessing their contribution to media pluralism. This framework may be useful for scholars and media practitioners when assessing the democratic potential of new alternative (conspiracy) media.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-23T02:16:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241277084
       
  • Review of 'George Orwell and Russia' by Masha Karp

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      Authors: James Rodgers
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-21T04:45:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274947
       
  • Rethinking news trust in post-truth Turkey: Immediacy as the imagined
           affordance of television and search engines

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      Authors: Suncem Koçer, Nazlı Özkan
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In today’s post-truth world, news users grapple with the tension between growing distrust in news institutions and the need for “true” information. Based on a mixed-methods study conducted in Turkey, this paper examines strategies developed by news users to establish trust in media tools in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and populist polarization. We first collected data with a nationally representative survey (N = 1089). Then, 30 media users filled out media diaries for 1 week. We interviewed diary participants at the end of the week. We also conducted a four-week-long participant observation in three locations. Based on this data, we argue that users build trust in news stories by attributing a sense of immediacy to specific media, namely television and search engines. This immediacy arises from people’s desire to scrutinize the accuracy of news stories in Turkey’s highly polarized media environment. We term this ascribed meaning of transparency the imagined affordance of immediacy, asserting that immediacy is crucial for forming trust in the post-truth era. Contrary to suggestions that news trust is diminishing in the post-truth era, our paper highlights citizens’ creative strategies to reestablish trust in contemporary news media.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-20T12:35:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274102
       
  • Corrigendum to “where are the missing girls' Gender inequality, job
           precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China”

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      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-20T04:55:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241267352
       
  • Practices of objectivity formation in journalism education

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      Authors: Anders Kruse Ljungdalh
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The purpose of the article is to explore the practices of objectivity formation in journalism education. Based on a practical-epistemological curiosity, as well as observations of teaching and interviews with teachers and students, it explores how the norm of objectivity is built into journalism education.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-16T03:15:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274678
       
  • Academia and journalism: Two different worlds' How scientific institutions
           can successfully collaborate with journalistic organizations

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      Authors: Leonie Wunderlich, Sascha Hölig, Meinolf Ellers
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Traditionally, researchers have played only a limited role as experts or qualified sources for journalists—and journalists were the subject of investigation for researchers rather than cooperation partners. The rapid pace of transformation processes in media use poses various challenges for media practitioners today, which is why they increasingly rely on the support of media researchers and their valuable insights into consumer attitudes and behaviour. However, the cooperation between scientific institutions and media practitioners is marked by many challenges and apart from individual temporary projects, lasting collaborations have not yet been established. This paper presents a long-term transfer initiative that aims to promote news use and news literacy among young people in close cooperation between a scientific institution and a wide range of private and public service media. Using this initiative as an example, we analyse the opportunities, challenges, and productive dynamics that result from this project. Based on our experience, we propose four main pieces of advice for how researchers can enhance long-term collaboration with newsrooms.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-14T12:46:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241273664
       
  • Experiences reporting on mental illness and suicide: Findings from
           interviews with Australian news professionals

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      Authors: Anna M Ross, Kara Dickson, Amy J Morgan, Elizabeth Paton, Gayle McNaught, Nicola J Reavley
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Improvements in the quality of news portrayals of mental illness and suicide can be attributed to the introduction of media guidelines, particularly the Mindframe guidelines in Australia. However, based on reports about problematic media content, there remains scope for improvement. This study sought to further investigate the experiences of Australian news media professionals in reporting on mental illness and suicide, including their experiences of using the Mindframe guidelines and developing news stories about people with lived experience. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 media professionals, including junior reporters, senior reporters, and news editors. Media professionals had an average of 10.1 years’ (SD = 9.4) experience and represented a range of work experiences. Three key themes were generated from participant responses about their experiences reporting on mental illness and suicide: 1. Awareness of responsible reporting guidelines and how to proactively increase this; 2. Newsroom processes, values and subjectivity in applying guidelines; and 3. The importance and challenge in sharing lived experience stories, and improving support for covering these stories. Further resources and education are needed across newsrooms and universities to increase awareness and use of the Mindframe guidelines, and ultimately improve the quality of Australian media portrayals of mental illness and suicide. Editors and managers should be targeted with this training to best influence organisational change. Media professionals require additional preparation and support to develop lived experience stories, particularly in working with people bereaved by suicide to ensure this is a safe engagement for both parties.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-14T05:05:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274105
       
  • “The goal is to make you weaker”: Mental well-being and risks among
           European cross-border investigative journalists

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      Authors: Belle de Jong, Johana Kotišová
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The increased scale of cross-border journalistic investigations brings about severe challenges: online harassment, physical violence, legal threats, but also emotional challenges and mental stress that can lead to burnout. The latter has never been the focus of studies on cross-border investigative journalistic collaborations. This paper seeks to fill in this gap and contribute to the understanding of how the cross-border aspects of investigative journalists’ work shape their mental well-being. Based on eighteen semi-structured interviews conducted with investigative journalists across Europe in the first half of 2023, this study addresses the following research questions: What are the specific challenges, threats, and risks encountered by investigative journalists working on cross-border collaborations' How do these challenges and risks affect investigative journalists’ mental well-being' What coping mechanisms do investigative journalists employ' Our findings show that cross-border investigative journalists experience a systemic neglect of mental well-being in the profession. Moreover, journalists face country-specific challenges, stemming from varying legal constraints and disparities in institutional support and protection across countries. The lack of safety measures that protect journalists beyond physical safety, multitasking, and the lack of concern for cross-border investigative journalists’ mental well-being can prove particularly challenging for freelancers. At the same time, the cross-border collaborations are depicted as a source of mutual assistance, protection, and a sense of community among international journalists.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-14T01:25:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272270
       
  • A comparative analysis of reporting on Islam between 2018–2020:
           Characteristics of institutionally and event-driven debates

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      Authors: Regula Hänggli Fricker, Daniel Beck
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper analyses reporting on the topic of Islam in Switzerland from 2018 until the end of 2020. A quantitative content analysis of 715 articles from 10 newspapers in German and French was conducted. Research into framing, agenda building, and attention theory serve as a theoretical basis. We show that “event-driven” and “institutionally driven” debates differ. They can be characterised on two dimensions: range of views (in terms of speakers, issues, issues in different language regions), and communication style (presentation of the position of Muslims and adopted journalistic role performance). In other words, this article shows that the arena is a key driving factor in the shape of a debate. This distinction of debate types provides a deeper understanding of Muslim actors as speakers, and of the role of market pressures in forms of infotainment journalism, and enriches theoretical understanding while providing empirical evidence. Islam as a topic is well suited for analysing public debates because the topic has been present in media coverage for many years, both in connection with political decision making processes (e.g. status of the religious community, integration of migrants, discussion about the ban on veiling) and in connection with current events in which contrasts between the Islamic and Western worlds are thematised (e.g. Islamic fundamentalism, religiously motivated acts of terrorism).
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-13T05:39:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266719
       
  • The ethics of open source investigations: Navigating privacy challenges in
           a gray zone information landscape

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      Authors: Maartje van der Woude, Tomás Dodds, Guillén Torres
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      With the exploding availability of online data, digital open-source investigations (OSINV) methods have become increasingly popular in journalism. However, practitioners face novel challenges related to the tension between journalism’s transparency ideals and its duty to safeguard the privacy and security of data subjects. This article explores this tension by drawing on data from eight in-depth interviews with professional open-source investigative journalists in the Netherlands. The findings of our study reveal that OSINV investigators rely heavily on personal assessments and ongoing dialogues with colleagues to make privacy-related editorial choices, as rules and guidelines have only recently emerged. This research provides valuable insights into the intricacies of OSINV journalism, uncovering the delicate balance between journalistic transparency and privacy/security considerations.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-12T11:02:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274104
       
  • Cross-national civilian reporting of the everydayness of war: Emerging
           citizen journalism practices in Palestine and Kashmir

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      Authors: Tawseef Majeed, Ali M Abushbak, Monisa Qadri, Atul Sinha
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores how Palestinian and Kashmiri civilians engage with the everyday reality of war. The focus is on understanding how citizens temporarily adopt the roles of war correspondents, contributing to the broader conflict narrative. Employing an inductive approach, the study integrates ethnography, phenomenology, and reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) to gain insights into how citizen journalists shape war narratives. Analysing the interview data through RTA reveals six key themes: “Emerging citizen journalism practices,” “Community Consciousness,” “Challenges in media perception,” “Self-expression and Social cohesion,” Responding to Authoritarian Falsehoods”, “Teen journalism”, and “Self-protection and safety”. The findings suggest that the citizen journalism practices in Palestine and Kashmir strategically report the war narratives, representing a progressive journalism practice. The results underline that citizen journalism practices in these regions purposefully present war narratives and represent a form of constructive journalism, which responds to authoritarian regimes’ extensive control over mainstream media and facilitates reconciliation and peace. Such citizen journalism practices act as an equipoise to data imbalances in information architecture for the consumers. The research underscores how conflict citizen journalism embodies activist and collaborative models with robust potential for replication in other conflict-ridden areas.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-12T04:59:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241273581
       
  • Citizen journalism under pressure: The case of Indonesia, Malaysia and the
           Philippines

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      Authors: Indra Prawira, Mastura Mahamed
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Citizen journalism was perceived to be a beacon of hope for democracy throughout countries in Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, recnt developments indicate citizen journalism in the region is being challenged. This research exploits Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to understand contemporary Southeast Asian citizen journalism. The data was collected by way of semi-structured interviews conducted with thirty people participating in citizen journalism from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The findings demonstrate prevalent economic, political, and cultural pressures in these countries, with political factors exerting the most pressure on the rise of citizen journalism. All three nations experience political pressure via regulations, with the Philippines being subjected to the most pressure due to extrajudicial killings and the intimidation of journalists. Owing to financial constraints, citizen journalism acts as a venue for mainstream media to obtain free content from citizen journalists. Citizen journalists in Indonesia earn significant incomes, although professional journalists covertly adopt their posts. Cultural pressure capital is exhibited when journalists apply ethical journalism to citizen journalists by means of training. Moreover, in the Philippines, citizen journalism is commonly positioned by government-supporting politicians to disinform. This study delivers an extensive and comparative overview, strengthening the case to update field theory.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-12T03:36:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241269271
       
  • Radio journalism and podcast news in the Global South

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      Authors: Thouraya Snoussi, Emma Heywood, Jairo Lugo-Ocando
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-10T02:28:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274873
       
  • Unveiling journalistic resilience: A blueprint for future crises

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      Authors: Syed Mubashar Hussain Shah, Babar Hussain Shah
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This research article presents an examination of the findings and recommendations drawn from a series of focus group discussions (FGDs) with senior journalists. The main aim was to develop a strategy to safeguard the skills and well-being of journalists in the face of potential future pandemics or crises. The FGDs were attended by experienced journalists whose focus was on rigorous reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. They represented press clubs from across Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). In these discussions, participants presented the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies they used to overcome these hurdles. In addition, the deliberations resulted in recommendations aimed at creating a safe environment for journalists to work, especially in crises. Using the analytical capabilities of the NVivo software, a thematic analysis was conducted to decipher the core themes of the FGDs. These themes have now been summarized in a set of consolidated recommendations that form the cornerstone of this research project. The recommendations advocate for improvements that include strengthening safety measures, prioritizing mental health and well-being, ensuring unimpeded access to important information, increasing legal protections, cultivating capacity-building opportunities, strengthening networks and collaborations, and introducing specialized training in health reporting. By implementing these recommendations, a framework can be created that strengthens journalists’ resilience in the face of crises. This article sees these findings not only as a blueprint for journalistic safety but also as evidence of the strength and adaptability of the journalistic community in the face of unprecedented challenges.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-06T08:04:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272163
       
  • Remembering the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Anniversary journalism’s role
           in collective memory and the State’s pursuit of ontological security

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      Authors: Eisa Al Nashmi
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Seeking to broaden collective memory research beyond major nations and high-profile events (e.g., the Cold War and September 11), this study explores how Kuwaiti newspapers memorialized Saddam Hussein’s August 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait. By tracing the evolution of commemorative narratives over three decades and observing how they resonate with the state’s political context, the role of the Kuwaiti press in shaping collective memory is shown. Additionally, given the shifts in Kuwait’s foreign policy—from initial animosity toward Iraq to a strategic partnership—prompted by leadership changes and the 2003 US–Iraq War, this study examines how commemorations reflected and solidified Kuwait’s evolving identity. In this context, the study evaluates the role of journalists as active participants in the state’s continuous pursuit of ontological security, which focuses on establishing a stable and recognized national identity alongside physical security.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-05T08:05:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272147
       
  • “I love my job, but my job is destroying me”. Permacrisis’ toll on
           

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      Authors: Lambrini Papadopoulou, Ioannis Angelou, Anastasia Katsaounidou
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing on qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews, this study examines the enduring impact of the prolonged cycle of global crises on South European journalists’ perceptions about their profession and approaches to their work. The findings reveal a complex interplay of emotions among journalists, ranging from a love-hate dynamic towards their profession to a deep-seated disappointment with its ability to enact positive societal change. The repeated exposure to trauma has led them to a loss of faith in journalism’s potential to serve the public good, fostering a sense of powerlessness and futility among practitioners. Moreover, this study sheds light on shifts in journalistic practice. Journalists describe how they infuse their work with personal emotions as a means of coping with the intensity of the stories they cover. They elaborate on the deteriorating working conditions brought about after years of crises but also highlight the emotional toll of permacrisis as an important factor that leads them to choose ‘lighter’ beats or exit the profession entirely. This study is unique in documenting permacrisis’ impact on journalists in Southern Europe, emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of their experiences.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-05T07:48:02Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272219
       
  • New models, same practices' Examining professional values and peace
           journalism training

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      Authors: Meagan E. Doll
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Existing work on peace journalism would suggest that some journalism cultures may be more receptive to—or perhaps already practice elements of—peace journalism. However, little research has documented, nor explored, perceptions of peace journalism when its practices are perceived as customary to situated professional environments. To better understand this phenomenon, this study examines how journalists ascribe value to peace journalism training, particularly when they were reportedly familiar with, or already practicing, peace journalism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists from Uganda, South Sudan, and Kenya, findings suggest that values associated with attending peace journalism trainings at times transcend the ostensible goals of workshop organizers. These values include trainings as a means for building professional networks, improving general journalistic skills, and fulfilling social expectations. Understanding these professional values contextualizes the adaptation of peace journalism across contexts, with implications for journalism professionalization processes more broadly.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-08-05T07:40:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272193
       
  • Reinforce, readjust, reclaim: How artificial intelligence impacts
           journalism’s professional claim

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      Authors: Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Morten Skovsgaard, Claes de Vreese
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Major advances in artificial intelligence have fuelled a rapid increase in the automation and augmentation of journalistic work, challenging the centrality of journalists in the news production process. This article theoretically explores news automation by adopting a system of professions framework from the sociology of professions to provide a holistic perspective on the impact of artificial intelligence on journalistic work. This framework posits that different factors influence professional control over work, and problems caused by these factors have left journalism vulnerable to automation. The routine and mundane nature of a significant portion of journalistic tasks suggests that artificial intelligence may potentially replace many journalists in the future, thereby challenging the profession’s claim to expertise. For journalism to uphold its professional authority in the future, it needs to brace for the impact of artificial intelligence. Building on this analysis, we explore strategies for journalism to do so. This involves reinforcing professional ideals in new algorithmic practices, readjusting knowledge and skill taught in education, and reclaiming specialised work practices in organisations. Rather than a threat, the emergence of artificial intelligence then presents an opportunity for journalism to reintroduce the distinctiveness of the profession and rejuvenate its professional promise.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-31T06:53:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241269300
       
  • Extending the professional borders or maintaining the status quo' Union
           membership as boundary work

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      Authors: Birgit Røe Mathisen, Anders Graver Knudsen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Disruption and changes within the profession of journalism instigate boundary disputes. In this article, we analyse boundary work ‘in the making’, with the debate about membership rules within the Norwegian Union of Journalists as a case. The research question asked is: How do positioning and rhetoric in the membership debate evoke boundary struggles in journalism, and how do they reflect the internal professional hierarchy' Theoretically anchored in the sociology of professions, this study is based on qualitative text analysis of debate articles in the specialist magazines Journalisten and Medier24, as well as qualitative interviews. The findings suggest two main positions. On the one hand, a struggle to protect pure professional identity, values, and integrity. On the other, arguments regarding union power and impact and the contention that in today’s digital media landscape journalism in practice involves a wide range of competencies. The two positions suggest a tension between white-collar professionalism and blue-collar unionism. This study contributes to our understanding of the shifting boundaries of journalism, and how changes in external conditions also impact upon internal professional identity.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-24T10:50:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241265207
       
  • Getting emotional: Emotions and ‘journalistification’ in Norwegian
           music reviews, 1981–2022

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      Authors: Ingebjørg Sofie Larsen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Whether emotional experience should be part of a critic’s evaluation has been a central but contentious issue in the history of music criticism. In this article, I trace how music critics in Norway treat emotions through three stages from the historical transition from an ‘aesthetic’ to a more ‘journalistic’ paradigm of arts journalism. I analyse an archival dataset from the dailies ‘Aftenposten’, ‘Dagbladet’, ‘Bergens Tidende’ and ‘Arbeiderbladet’/’Dagsavisen’ in 1981, 2001 and 2022. The qualitative analysis reveals that, paradoxically, emotions became more prevalent and explicit at the same time as the ‘journalistic’ paradigm, which is characterised by the strategic ritual of objectivity, became more present in the reviews. I argue that the way the journalistic paradigm increasingly intersects with emotion in these reviews has theoretical implications for the study of arts journalism and the subgenre of music criticism, challenging the dichotomy between emotions and objectivity that exists in both journalism studies and the history of music criticism.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-24T10:04:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241260196
       
  • No watchdogs on Twitter: Topics and frames in political journalists’
           tweets about the coronavirus pandemic

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      Authors: Peter Maurer, Christian Nuernbergk
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Social media channels, particularly Twitter/X, played a significant role as information platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. As journalists are crucial actors on that platform, an analysis of the content and tone of their tweets during the pandemic can reveal the role they played in shaping public understanding of this public health crisis. Our analysis focuses on Germany where the government enforced relatively strict anti-COVID-19 measures and where strong opposition to these measures emerged outside the mainstream media. We analyzed almost 10.000 tweets of 247 journalists of mainstream media during a 14-month-period. To shed light on journalists’ watchdog versus collaborative role orientation, computational methods were used to extract themes and tone in their pandemic-related tweets. Furthermore, network analysis was utilized to identify influential actors in journalists’ interactions with experts and other users on Twitter. The findings revealed that journalists tweeted most about topics like the economy, protests, and Chancellor Merkel’s ability to implement a restrictive containment policy. As demonstrated by the network analysis, journalists frequently interacted with cabinet members and pro-government experts on Twitter during the pandemic. The analysis also revealed that some tweets were characterized by an anti-protest and anti-lockdown tone, but these came from different groups of journalists.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-24T05:47:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266722
       
  • A comparative study of multi-ethnic perspectives on aging in Malaysian
           newspapers

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      Authors: Lai Fong Yang, Prasana Rosaline Fernandez, Linda Poh Gaik Tan
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Media plays an important role in representing cultural beliefs about aging, and the influence of cultural and societal factors on the portrayal of aging is well documented. Malaysia, with its diverse demographics of different ethnicities, religions, and languages, provides a unique context for investigating how aging is represented. This study employed framing as the theoretical framework and qualitative content analysis as the research method to compare the portrayal of aging in Malaysian newspapers published in Malay, Chinese, and English. In addition, a popular online-only newspaper in the country was included in the analysis. The findings showed an emphasis on the well-being/welfare of older people in Malaysian newspapers; however, the discourse reflected elements of paternalism and ageism, with the voices of older adults having limited representation. The implications of these findings were discussed in relation to the media’s role in reporting the aging process.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-22T01:15:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266724
       
  • Covering disability in Italian journalism. Language, practices and
           perspectives in mainstream and alternative media

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      Authors: Gaia Peruzzi, Fabiana Battisti, Raffaele Lombardi
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Journalism has a key role in the social construction of diversity in the public sphere. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between disability and journalism in Italy, a question largely unexplored hitherto. Following a review of the literature on disability-related journalism and ethics, we adopted the HOI (Hierarchy of Influences) model as a theoretical resource to enable a thorough investigation of the interplay between professionals and social, institutional and organisational systems. The research is based on 17 in-depth interviews with Italian journalists who have been covering disability for years, both in the mainstream and in alternative media. The analysis focused on their perceptions and experiences in daily newsmaking processes, reconstructing and relating the personal accounts they give as professionals to the working practices of newsrooms. We found that there are mutual influences at work, operating across individual, organisational and institutional levels and tending to force the issue of disability to the margins of journalistic activity. In a few relevant exceptions, there emerged a vindication of proactiveness on the part of professionals in the mainstream and alternative media. This suggests the emergence of a disability journalism culture, independent of editorial approach, to which the individuality of the journalist is central.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-21T10:44:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266073
       
  • Yeah, I’ve been immunized: Objectivity, ignorance, and privilege in
           media coverage of Aaron Rodgers’ COVID-19 vaccine refusal

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      Authors: M Olguta Vilceanu, Julia C Richmond
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      During a team press conference in August 2021, then-Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed he had been ‘immunized,’ which implied he had taken a COVID-19 vaccine. He later admitted he was not vaccinated and sparked a debate in the news and popular media. This study builds on the epistemology of ignorance, science controversy, sports mythmaking, and fake news to explore news coverage of professional athletes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccination. Thematic discourse analysis helped position the narratives built around Aaron Rodgers’ statements, attitudes, and behaviors on the continuum between vaccine hesitancy and discursive manipulation. The findings reveal evolving perspectives of social issues related to managing social responsibility of professional athletes and call for sharper interrogations of the dynamics of power, privilege, and agency among key opinion leaders at the intersection of sports, journalism, and society.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-21T09:07:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266754
       
  • Breaching BBC impartiality rules: Journalism identity, institutional
           networks and social media

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      Authors: María Luengo, Teresa Gil-López
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Since implementing its latest impartiality guidelines in October 2021, the BBC has rebuked several of its news presenters for related violations. BBC journalists are required to adhere to these norms, so why are some expressing defiance' In light of the BBC’s vast global reach and reputation for journalistic impartiality, this article uses social network and discourse analysis to explore how contemporary journalism is challenging the norm of impartiality. Drawing upon network analysis of the Twitter accounts of BBC journalists and a qualitative content analysis of their Twitter feeds vis-à-vis BBC’s impartiality guidelines, this study examines the relationship between their positions and roles with their discourse on the news online network. Based on our findings, journalists’ roles have a significant impact on their use of discursive approaches and stances on the subject of impartiality when transitioning from a regimen of balance to a regimen of due impartiality.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-21T07:31:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266097
       
  • Determinants of women legislators’ media coverage in a male-dominated
           Kenya political landscape

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      Authors: Kioko Ireri, Jimmy Ochieng
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This research explores visibility of Kenyan women Members of Parliament (MPs) in newspapers news between 2013 and 2017 – a non-election period. Within the backdrop of coverage based on news values, the study examines whether non-institutional characteristics (ethnic group size and seniority), and institutional attributes (party size and political leadership) predicted the coverage of 68 female legislators. And under the context of media as a mirror of political reality, it investigates if criticizing national government, commenting on corruption and devolution determined their appearance in national newspapers’ news. Findings indicate that commenting on corruption, criticizing national government, and seniority were the main predictors of the MPs’ newspapers reportage.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-20T07:52:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241264103
       
  • The dance of shadows: The New York Times and the CIA

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      Authors: Chunfeng Lin
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In the intricate realm of international affairs, the relationship between foreign correspondents of The New York Times (NYT) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) can be likened to a refined tango, where the worlds of journalism and espionage converge. This study, inspired by this metaphor, delves into the complex relationship between the NYT and the CIA that spans two generations of the Sulzberger family. Drawing from the “James Reston Papers,” it examines how these two prominent entities, the NYT and the CIA, navigated the intricate interplay of mutual dependence, conflicting interests, and the delicate balance between transparency and secrecy while vying for influence. Furthermore, it sheds light on the clandestine connections that bind the realms of media and intelligence, which have left a significant mark on the landscape of American journalism.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-20T07:19:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241265187
       
  • The danmu discourse of user engagement with cross-posted broadcast
           interviews in Chinese social media

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      Authors: Xiaoping Wu, Richard Fitzgerald
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Along with new forms of mediated communication, social media technologies have created new forms of audience engagement with traditional broadcast talk formats. As forms of content creation and audience engagement continue to evolve, Chinese social media have developed innovative ways for users to engage with broadcast videos, especially through what is known as ‘danmu’ technology. Danmu is a popular commenting system that allows users to post text directly onto the screen, rather than below the video, creating a layer of on-screen user engagement with the video while watching it. This study examines this new form of audience engagement by drawing upon a case study of danmu-commented English-language broadcast interviews cross-posted to Bilibili, a popular video-sharing platform in China. The analysis highlights three forms of participatory practices by danmu users: engagement with the video content, engagement with characters in the video, and interaction between danmu users. The paper argues that danmu-mediated participatory practices create a sense of co-watching and quasi-synchronous interaction that evokes a distinct participation framework in the virtual community. This study contributes to the growing literature on how social media continues to reshape audience engagement with broadcast news and the complex participation frameworks mediated through Chinese danmu technology.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-19T11:28:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241253900
       
  • Critique-in-the-loop of news production

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      Authors: Toussaint Nothias
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article reflects on the genesis, value, and limits of an experimental project aiming to challenge the production of stereotypes in news production. Specifically, I discuss the development of a tool - the Africa Stereotype Scanner – designed for journalists to analyze the linguistic content of their articles, identify stereotypes and frames, and reflect on their writing practices. I explain how this project was born from an iterative dialogue between critical scholarship and journalistic practice. Beyond a too familiar scholar-journalist rift, I outline how this project sought to break down epistemological boundaries between journalism and academia. This collaborative project, I argue, provides an example of how critical research can seek to enhance journalistic reporting and, dialectically, how an engagement with the field leads to new questions and invites another type of knowledge production. This critique-in-the-loop model paves the way for critical journalism scholarship that wrestles further with its normative foundations, elucidates its practical implications, and plays a role in generative interventions.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-19T04:43:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241263326
       
  • Legitimizing the think-tank turn: The transformation of Chinese media in
           the digital era

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      Authors: Haiyan Wang, Liangen Yin
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study analyzes what we call the “think-tank turn” of Chinese newspapers, a popular path of digital transformation that many media organizations have been undertaking in response to the multi-faceted crisis of the media in the past decade. Based on a case study of Paper N, a provincial commercial newspaper in southeast China that has been praised for having organized one of the most successful media-based think-tanks in the country, this study explores how Chinese journalists legitimize their think-tank roles and in the process redefine their relationship with the government. It argues that by turning the newsroom into a policy research hub and the journalists into policy analysts and consultants, Chinese newspapers further subordinate themselves to the institutions of political power, becoming not only their loyal propagandists but also fully-fledged dependents. Implications of the think-tank turn for journalistic legitimacy and the relationship between Chinese media and state in the digital era are discussed.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-21T01:32:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241264255
       
  • Diverse news, diverse perceptions' Investigating the effects of actor and
           viewpoint diversity in news content on audience perceptions and opinions

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      Authors: Kathleen Beckers
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study examines journalism’s role in bridging divides by presenting diverse perspectives in societal debates. While prior research has emphasized the significance of diverse news content, this study investigates how audiences perceive and value such diversity and its impact on their attitudes. Through an online experiment in the Flemish (Belgian) context, it was found that actor diversity is more noticeable, yet increasing diversity in actors and viewpoints does not enhance a news item’s perceived credibility. Moreover, although people are influenced in the direction of the viewpoint provided in a one-sided article, it appears that when a diversity of viewpoints is presented, people tend to primarily consider those opinions that already align with their pre-existing viewpoints. By gaining a deeper understanding of how audiences receive news coverage, journalists can critically evaluate the voices they present and contribute to a more diverse public debate.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-20T10:26:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241264130
       
  • Concerns about the role of artificial intelligence in journalism, and
           media manipulation

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      Authors: Simon Mahony, Qing Chen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Artificial Intelligence is a term used frequently in academic and other writing, but do we have a clear understanding of what it means' This article starts from first principles, taking a dialectic approach, to raise questions rather than give prescriptive answers. It unpacks some specific examples of the use of AI in journalism and automated approaches to news reporting. The manipulation of media has become commonplace and of greater interest as information itself can be used as an effective weapon to sow confusion and disruption, socially as well as politically. AI depends on the training data and modelling, but the sampling and engineering is done by humans with all the potential for bias, whether intentional or not. Biased datasets and the potential for uncertainty are constant dangers; we need to understand both the data and the processes that go into the AI-driven results, and always be prepared to question everything.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-20T06:01:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241263293
       
  • The uncompromising way: Several lessons from homeless journalists

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      Authors: Vojtěch Dvořák
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The radical role of media is about challenging norms, advocating for justice, and amplifying marginalized voices. One such group is the unhoused population. The media owe them a debt by perpetuating disempowering narratives and stereotypes about homelessness. This article examines the practices of unhoused individuals engaged in participatory community journalism and their implications for professional journalists. Based on over 3 years of participatory action and critical ethnography research in the Czech Republic and Colorado, it presents several lessons for journalists to learn from homeless journalists. The findings show that involving unhoused people in journalism can equalize inevitably unequal power relations and promote truth-seeking. The article highlights that the highest forms of media participation may not always be the most empowering, and instead, promoting dialogue through partnership is crucial. Ultimately, it calls on professional journalists to embrace the new radical role by critically examining their power and being open to sharing or giving it up for the benefit of marginalized voices.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-20T03:04:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241264104
       
  • Attitudes to automated and human written sport journalism

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      Authors: Sam Duncan, Jessica Kunert, Adam Karg
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Automation processes are increasingly being applied to the area of sports journalism. This study examines differences in the perceptions regarding human written and automated match texts using an experimental design with n = 251 Australian sports fans. Results showed that human-written articles rated higher on measures related to enjoyment and liking. Differences in arousal and quality were not significant across the match report content. Importantly for media organizations, perceived differences were prominent for all individuals, not just those who read match reports more frequently. Results suggest that perceptions of ‘enjoyment’ and ‘liking’ differ significantly between human written and automated texts; human-written reports were rated as more ‘enjoyable’ and ‘liked’ than automatically generated reports.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-19T09:54:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241260944
       
  • Rumor has it: Epistemology of celebrity journalism in the flemish digital
           media ecology

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      Authors: Jonathan Hendrickx, Hilde Van den Bulck
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Taking the case of Belgian (Flemish) celebrity news, we discuss the impact of digitization of the news media ecology on the epistemology of celebrity journalism. Theoretically, the epistemology of celebrity journalism is considered as a set of practices, through which knowledge is acquired, claimed and justified, that are shaped by the specifics of the media ecology and the celebrity culture and industry. Empirically, we analyze media celebrity coverage in two celebrity magazines and one website, owned by DPG Media and sharing a converged newsroom. Quantitative content analysis and expert interviews reveal that, while digitization somewhat affects the ways in which journalists acquire, claim and justify their knowledge, celebrity news epistemology is mostly affected by the distinction between local and global celebrities, mostly through direct versus indirect access.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-19T06:15:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241263328
       
  • Conversations on ‘making the news’: A citizen journalism-oriented tool
           for empowering citizen advocates of journalism

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      Authors: Jason T Peifer, Laura PB Partain, Jennifer Midberry
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores an avenue for fostering a model of citizen journalism that is empowered by community dialogue about ‘making the news,’ interactive engagement with local news actors, and advocacy for journalism. The research effort features two key focal points. First—from a normative standpoint—it emphasizes a broader conceptualization of citizen journalism that includes citizen contributions to discussions about, and advocacy for, quality journalism in one’s community. Understanding that such empowerment necessitates (a) a basic belief that journalism has a degree of value/relevance to oneself and (b) a sense of agency in helping to improve the health of the local news media environment, this study draws on the concepts of citizen academies, Perceived News Media Importance, and self-efficacy. Second—representing an empirical focal point—this study initiates exploration of the utility of a journalism-themed citizen forum initiative (in the model of citizen academies) for fostering the community interactive dimension of “citizen journalism” outlined herein. Building on existing research of citizen forums, initial findings support the assertion that such initiatives have the capacity to reinforce the importance of news work (especially related to investigative journalism) while mitigating citizens’ self-perception of inefficacy in helping to support the local news media environment. Our discussion considers how future initiatives might be strengthened to most effectively motivate and empower citizens to advocate for this model of citizen journalism.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-17T05:54:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241261118
       
  • Forensic journalism: A sistematic literature review

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      Authors: Ana Filipa Gomes, Sandra Marinho
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article provides a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on forensic journalism. This is a field which combines the areas of journalism and forensic investigation and plays an essential role in crime report and journalistic investigation, in connection with the legal system and advocacy of justice. The SLR considered a corpus of 90 scientific articles, from four databases: Web of Science, B-On, Communication Abstracts and Scopus. The authors demonstrate a particular interest in discussing the framing of crime news, as well as their effects on audiences. The idea that runs through is that of the relevance of quality journalism. An investment in journalism education and in the specialisation of journalists comes out as a possible path towards enhancing the quality of the news. Even though this is a well established area, “forensic journalism”, the concept itself, is yet to be widely adopted by researchers.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-17T01:46:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241261182
       
  • The mediated construction of “woke”: Emerging discourses and primary
           definers in the Flemish press

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      Authors: Alexander Dhoest, Steve Paulussen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      From 2021, “woke” became an omnipresent term in Flemish public debate. In this paper, we explore how the mainstream press contributed to the emergence and construction of discourses on wokeness. First, we ask how the topic of “woke” reached the media agenda in Flanders. Second, we analyze the respective role of journalists and their sources in constructing discourses on “wokeness”, drawing on the notions of “primary” and “secondary definers” . We collected all newspaper articles mentioning “woke” in four newspapers for 6 months from 2021 to 2023. After a preliminary quantitative content analysis, we conducted a discourse analysis to identify the themes and terminology associated with woke as well as the key (journalistic and non-journalistic) actors talking about it. This allowed us to, first, reconstruct a timeline of the emerging discourses on woke; and second, to identify underlying discursive and journalistic patterns. The chronological analysis disclosed how a few “critical discourse moments” put woke on the media agenda. In each instance, an elite person created a stir, drawing attention to the (supposed) threat of “wokeness”. Woke was generally framed negatively as a “movement” threatening freedom of speech. Although journalists aimed to provide a balanced view and many op-eds offered counterarguments, the mainstream press did give a broad platform to actors deliberately instrumentalizing woke for (often political) purposes. By responding to anti-woke voices and not taking a side, most journalists did take over and reconfirm the framing of “woke” as a movement and threat proposed by elite primary definers.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-11T11:51:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241260942
       
  • Tensions between the professional and academic worlds of journalism:
           Paradoxes of the Brazilian reality

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      Authors: Otávio Daros
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      For 40 years, Brazil was one of the few places in the world in which the regulation of journalistic activity was based on the requirement of a university degree, which associated being a journalist with having an academic qualification and not necessarily a professional one, unlike other countries that established or not licensing/accreditation  systems. In the light of historical sociology, this article aims to scrutinize this intricacy of relationships between the professional and academic worlds of journalism, based on the case of the largest media market and scholarship in Latin America. It is shown how, between 1969 and 2013, there was tension and resistance on the part of international press associations, national news media companies and renowned journalists in relation to the mandatory diploma defended by the unions; as well as there were disputes and demands, within the community of professors and researchers, for the emancipation of journalism education in relation to communication studies.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-11T04:35:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241261644
       
  • Revisiting citizen journalism scholarship in the Web Era (1994-2023):
           Past, present, and prospect

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      Authors: Seungahn Nah, Jun Luo, Gülşah Akçakır, Xinlei Wu, Gwiwon Nam, Seungbae Kim
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The study revisits citizen journalism scholarship spanning 30 years of journal articles published in the fields of journalism, communication, media, technology studies, and beyond. Previous studies in this domain have endeavored to evaluate the landscape of citizen journalism research since the inception of the Internet and its associated web technologies in 1994. Nonetheless, it remains fully unexplored concerning the topology and knowledge network structure of citizen journalism scholarship. The study assesses the landscape of citizen journalism scholarship over the past 30 years by employing a variety of mixed methods, including topic modeling, bibliometric analysis, and manual content analysis. This study provides an exploratory examination of the realm of citizen journalism within the context of journalism and democracy and further discusses the past, present, and prospects for future directions of this field. The study aims to advance citizen journalism scholarship in terms of theory, research, practice, and policy implications with a focus on English language articles. While the study contributes to the existing body of knowledge on citizen journalism scholarship, it serves as a catalyst for continuous intellectual inquiry in an international and interdisciplinary environment.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-07T06:28:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241247972
       
  • Freelance journalism in Zimbabwe: Challenges and opportunities

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      Authors: Lungile Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu, Zinzile N Dhladhla
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In Zimbabwe, the comatose economy has had an impact on the media industry. Since 2000, media houses have been shutting down due to lack of financial support or poor business environment. For some news organisations, they have been retrenching their staff as a cost cutting measure. This has also led to retrenched journalists to write for other publications as freelance journalists. This study examines the state of freelance journalism in Zimbabwe. It aims to assess their role and contribution to the media industry, challenges they face, and also the survival strategies they are adopting. This qualitative study is informed by Bourdieu’s field theory. It used in-depth interviews while thematic analysis was employed in analyzing data. Findings demonstrates that freelance journalists are contributing to the growth of media industry in Zimbabwe by writing on specialised beats like science reporting. Besides such contributions, findings further demonstrated that freelance journalism is seen as ‘curse’ as journalists are easily harassed by the state agents who rarely recognizes someone not working for an established organisation.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-06-04T03:57:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241257119
       
  • Subjectivity conditioned by narrative form: A narratological approach to
           emotion in narrative journalism

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      Authors: Cecilia Aare
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In recent years, media researchers have displayed an increased interest in emotion as an element of the content in both news journalism and narrative journalism. These studies lack a theoretical definition of emotion and do not usually specify what characterizes narrative journalism more than it being “not objective” and, consequently, not similar to conventional journalism. In practice, they identify emotion through frames of personalization or explicit expressions of feelings and evaluations. However, narrative journalism integrates implicitly conveyed emotion. To enable a broader understanding of the function of emotion in narrative journalism, this article gives examples of and analyzes how emotion and the related concept subjectivity is used and discussed in two different fields of research: social sciences-influenced journalism studies and literature-influenced studies. The dualistic view on journalism as either subjective or objective is questioned when narrative journalism (also known as reportage or literary journalism) is placed in a professional context, where the genre is based on its own tradition and represents its own form of knowledge, due to its main characteristic: a narrative form. Finally, the article demonstrates how tools drawn from narratology can illuminate diverse storytelling techniques that transmit emotion implicitly rather than explicitly.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-31T04:40:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241257116
       
  • Mothers, terrorists, or victims' The framing of Dutch and Belgian women in
           the Syrian camps and the question of repatriation in news media

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      Authors: Ronja Bossen, Yazan Badran
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Following the fall of ISIS in March 2019, thousands of women affiliated with the movement, along with their children, were brought to Kurdish-controlled camps in north-eastern Syria. Since then, an international, political, and juridical debate raged on regarding the repatriation of Western female detainees in the camps and their children. This paper aims to evaluate how Dutch and Belgian women in the Syrian camps have been framed by their national news media in the context of political discussions on their repatriation. Our qualitative framing analysis identifies six distinct framing packages: the criminal, terrorist, victim, regret, mother, and bad parent frames. Moreover, our analysis highlights how the frames, and their intersection with different modes of othering, shifted as the debate moved to the question of their repatriation. Finally, we also discuss differences in the framing, argumentation, and frame advocates between the two contexts.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-31T02:22:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255561
       
  • Journalists’ authority and its bounded trade; Twitter, journalists, and
           boundary work in contemporary France’s music scene

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      Authors: Gilles Bastin, Clément Bert-Erboul
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Journalists, it is widely admitted, are engaged in new forms of boundary work on social media platforms, seeking to uphold their influence over news dissemination. This study focuses on music festivals as a case study to examine journalists' endeavors in maintaining their authority on social media. We analyze Twitter coverage of music festivals in France during the summer of 2018, systematically collecting data from 16 festivals of varying sizes and musical genres. Through this analysis, we investigate journalists' engagement and evaluate the trading of authority with other stakeholders through mentioning practices. Our findings challenge the prevailing notion of journalists as primary arbiters of authority on social media platforms. Despite their conspicuous presence during music festivals on Twitter, journalists emerge as relatively passive participants compared to other stakeholders in the music scene. Moreover, their ability to assert or receive authority from the broader public sphere is limited. This study sheds light on the bounded nature of journalists' boundary work on social media platforms, emphasizing the evolving dynamics of authority within digital information ecosystems.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-31T02:14:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255941
       
  • From the political to the personal: Constructing politicians’
           biographies in the Nick Robinson podcast ‘Political Thinking’

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      Authors: Maxwell Modell
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Political podcasts have captured a global audience and emerged as an important innovation space in journalism. One of the most popular formats is the ‘extended interview podcast’. This study employs conversation analysis to examine how this format has been used to facilitate more personal and informal encounters between journalists and politicians who are usually associated with the accountability news interview. BBC Radio 4’s podcast ‘Political Thinking with Nick Robinson’ is used as a case study. The analysis shows that Political Thinking provides a discursive context for politicians to construct and perform their personal identities, in contrast to their traditionally more formalised political performance as institutional representatives. The looser structure of the podcast, relative to the tightly scheduled news interview, affords Robinson the discursive space for more reflexive handling of politicians’ personal narratives. Talk is mutually co-operative and conversational. Similarly to the celebrity talk show Political Thinking has an experiential focus, oriented towards the narrative exploration of personal experience as a device to contextualise politicians’ careers and value systems. This is complemented with more playful sequences in which Robinson collaborates with politicians to curate their non-political identities and reveal details of their personality that may help the audience to see them in a new light. Through this process, politicians become personal storytellers, whose thoughts, emotions and non-political identities are brought to the fore above issues of policy and current affairs. In turn, Robinson allows politicians to bridge the gap between their institutional identities as politicians and their personal reflections as individuals.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-30T01:53:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255208
       
  • Disinformation discourse as boundary work in journalism. A comparison
           between South Africa and France

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      Authors: Carolyne Lunga, Pauline Renaud
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The COVID-19 pandemic has proved fertile ground for disinformation, confronting journalists with several challenges. Not only have they faced an unprecedented flood of fabricated stories, but they also had to report about a crisis while experiencing it themselves. This study analyses how journalists made sense of disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparing the perceptions of journalists in South Africa and France, countries which are in the Global South and Global North, respectively, offers a new lens to the study of journalistic discourse and its functions in relation to the context it emerges from. Based on in-depth interviews with journalists in South Africa and France, this study argues that while journalistic discourses present many similarities when making sense of pandemic-related disinformation, they follow different patterns when discussing and affirming their professional authority in the face of this phenomenon.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-29T06:23:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241254276
       
  • Snapping the news: Dynamic gatekeeping in a public service media newsroom
           reaching young people with news on Snapchat

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      Authors: Heidi Røsok-Dahl, Ragnhild Kristine Olsen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The relationship between news media and social media platforms is complex, involving dependencies and conflicts. Being present on these platforms offers benefits, such as increased visibility and engagement, particularly with younger audiences. However, platforms also function as gatekeepers through guidelines and algorithmic filtering, impacting the spreading of news media content. Snapchat, popular among young audiences, has been adopted by many traditional news outlets as a more playful distribution channel. Limited research exists on how newsrooms navigate Snapchat’s guidelines and the consequences of violating these, including practices like “flagging,” and the interplay between editorial decisions and algorithms. This study relies on an ethnographic fieldwork at the Norwegian Public Service Broadcaster’s (NRK) editorial group “NRK UNG” (NRK Youth) publishing news to young audiences on Snapchat. The study expands on gatekeeping theory, incorporating recent advancements, and illustrates how the journalists navigate Snapchat’s algorithmic gatekeeping. The study thus highlights the interplay between human news judgment and algorithmic news dissemination on Snapchat at various stages of the news production process.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-29T06:01:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255701
       
  • Look at what the real facts and experts say! The use of expert references
           and objectivity claims in disinformation: A qualitative exploration and
           typology

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      Authors: Michael Hameleers, Emma van der Goot
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The popular assumption that mis- and disinformation are distinguishable from true information based on easy-to-identify content features is challenged in an online context where multiple claims of truthfulness compete for legitimacy. When conventional and alternative narratives both rely on seemingly objective and fact-based truth claims, it is difficult for citizens to separate false from true information. In this setting, we rely on an inductive qualitative analysis of social media and alternative media platforms to explore how mis- and disinformation refer to expertise and objectivity. Our main findings suggest that expertise and objectivity in mis- and disinformation can be legitimized by (1) quoting or involving message-congruent alternative experts; (2) selectively decontextualizing or quoting established experts; (3) contrasting ‘honest’ alternative experts/critical citizens to ‘dishonest’ established experts; (4) emphasizing people-centric expertise, common sense, and critical thinking as foundations of truth-telling; and (5) referring to visual information and lived experiences as direct reflections of reality. The typology aims to inform empirical research on the detection of mis- and disinformation and can be applied in the design of interventions to raise awareness about how false information signals legitimacy.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-29T02:53:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241257383
       
  • Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya
           and Senegal

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      Authors: Kevin C Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, Layire Diop, Melissa Tully, Dani Madrid-Morales
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      While misinformation is very prevalent in Africa, we have a limited understanding of how key stakeholders, such as journalists, fact-checkers, policy experts, and educators, perceive responses to misinformation to address its spread. Based on an analysis of 46 interviews with media professionals and other key stakeholders from Kenya and Senegal, we find divergent perceptions of what regulatory interventions are needed to slow the spread of misinformation in the two countries. In Kenya, stakeholders advocated for self-regulation rather than government intervention to curb misinformation, while in Senegal, they called for more government regulations to address its spread. Additionally, interviewees perceived regulatory approaches, such as proposed laws to address misinformation, as reactive solutions, often resulting from a specific incident in the country, and educational approaches, such as requiring media literacy education in schools, as sustainable solutions with potentially longer-term outcomes.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-23T09:19:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255935
       
  • Corrigendum to “Met expectations, job satisfaction, and intention to
           leave: The effects of discrepancy between job expectations and experiences
           on journalists’ intention to leave”

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      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-23T07:34:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241257108
       
  • Not playing the game: Political talk, hybridity and performance

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      Authors: Michael Higgins, Angela Smith
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article looks at two prominent news interviews by non-political actors; one an accountability interview and the other part of a panel discussion. It shows how the exchanges contest the conventions of the journalistic interview, deploying a range of unorthodox verbal and non-verbal tactics. The accountability interview, broadcast on Sky News and posted on X (Twitter), includes a heightened performative component, using a variety of techniques to foreground verbal and embodied incredulity. This attracted widespread public and journalistic comment, and produces a manner of engagement that evades conventional language analysis. Performance is a still more prominent factor in the second example, which analyses an appearance by a professional comedian on a BBC political discussion programme. This sustains a comedic persona based upon an enactment of mock-sincerity, contesting the conventional forms of mediated political talk and commentary. Together, these performances are assessed in the context of increasing hybridity in broadcast news, and the article suggests their significance extends beyond their status as sharable media spectacle, such that they show how popular forms of performance can challenge the institutional norms of neutralism.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-21T12:54:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241254958
       
  • Say what you want: Evaluation and engagement with YouTube broadcasts on
           ChatGPT

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      Authors: Marta Dynel
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      ChatGPT caused a worldwide sensation upon its launch, as evidenced by the extensive coverage across traditional and new media. This paper delves into the diverse evaluative discourses about this AI chatbot both in YouTube news videos (originally, television broadcasts) and in user comments facilitated by YouTube’s interactivity. The qualitative-quantitative discourse analysis probes diversified evaluations within YouTube broadcast talk, together with their impact on viewers’ perceptions of the broadcasts’ stance and viewers’ evaluations of ChatGPT and the broadcasts, as reflected by user comments. The findings present balanced effects, speaking to polarised opinions and mixed feelings about this AI development, but point to a potential boomerang effect in users’ evaluation of the new AI bot relative to the broadcasts considered to be biased. The study also reports low user engagement with the broadcasts. This challenges the notion of user engagement with broadcast content as lying at the heart of user interactivity on YouTube.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-20T04:15:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241251973
       
  • The anatomy of internal interference in public service media: How do
           journalists interpret whether editorial interference constitutes
           unacceptable encroachment on their autonomy'

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      Authors: Marína Urbániková
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study examines the suspected transmission of political pressure through management to journalists in public service media, where independence is crucial for fulfilling its democratic mission. Such interference is often covert and performed without hard evidence, making it difficult to prove. To provide insight into these practices, this study explores the case of RTVS, the public service broadcaster in Slovakia, during a conflict that arose after the appointment of a new director general in 2017. Using semi-structured interviews with journalists and managers (N = 16), it introduces an inductively developed classification scheme for internal interference and examines the context and conditions under which the journalists considered it to be politically motivated and as an illegitimate encroachment on their autonomy. The study shows that perceived internal interference by management takes two forms: interference in editorial content at various levels (and through multiple tools and means) and the use of disciplinary mechanisms. When journalists experience internal interference with a possible political background, trust in their superiors and the perception of their motives are crucial factors influencing their reactions and interpretation of the situation. However, for a variety of reasons that the study analyzes in detail, the RTVS journalists distrusted their superiors' moral integrity, professional skills, and political independence, which resulted in the departure of a large part of the TV newsroom. The article concludes with suggestions for methodological implications for further research on perceived interference.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-16T11:36:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255339
       
  • The use of the term Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic in The Voice and
           Eastern Eye newspapers, a discourse analysis of Covid news stories in the
           UK press

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      Authors: Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study finds that during the pandemic the UK mainstream press presented a blame narrative in their news stories when discussing BAME communities in relation to Covid-19. Articles from The Voice and Eastern Eye newspapers aimed at diasporic readers were contrasted with stories from UK mainstream press, published during the first lockdown in the UK. An intersectional approach was taken to examine news articles published between March and July 2020. The analysis revealed a failure in the British mainstream press to recognise structural and systemic racism when reporting Covid related stories. In contrast, the ethnic press looked for solutions and tried to examine structural racism. A deficit approach is evident in the mainstream press that sought to apportion blame to cultures, faith, and customs. There is a focus on the terminology BAME (Black Asian and minority ethnic) used as a formal descriptor by the UK Government and media to describe minority communities. The term is now defunct. It is acknowledged that Covid-19 accentuated differences that already existed in society, particularly those pertaining to race. Research has also evidenced that mainstream news organisations can be overly critical of minority communities, conflating their perceived flaws and condemning minorities as a method to delegitimise claims of mistreatment or differential outcomes.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-16T04:42:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241255029
       
  • Framing the war on Tigray: The case of CNN and Al Jazeera

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      Authors: Hagos Nigussie, Gebru Kahsay Kiflu
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper examined the framing of the war on Tigray on CNN and Al Jazeera from November 4, 2020, to June 28, 2021. Content analysis was used for the data analysis. The results revealed that, while CNN relied on eyewitnesses, including humanitarian workers and local people, Al Jazeera primarily relied on official sources to cover the war. CNN predominantly focussed on crimes against humanity and hunger, whereas Al Jazeera covered crimes against humanity. While CNN focussed on the responsibility and human interest frames, Al Jazeera focussed on the responsibility and morality frames. Both media largely focussed on the responsibility frame, emphasising that perpetrators should be liable for war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression, and atrocities on civilians in different parts of Tigray, all of which epitomise genocide.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-13T04:57:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241252017
       
  • News you can refuse: If news is important, why aren’t more people
           willing to pay for it'

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      Authors: Edson C Tandoc, Seth Seet
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Guided by public goods and uses and gratifications theories, this study examines the link among motivations for news consumption, perceived importance of news, and willingness to pay for news. Through a national online survey in Singapore (n = 818), this study found that both entertainment and socialisation motivations are positively related to willingness to pay for news, while surveillance motivation was not. The analysis also found that perceiving news to be personally important is positively related to willingness to pay for news; in contrast, perceiving news to be important to society was unrelated to willingness to pay for it. While surveillance motivation was not directly related to willingness to pay for news, it exerts an indirect effect through perceived personal importance of news. These findings challenge conventional assumptions about the drivers of news subscriptions and offer pivotal insights for news organisations seeking sustainable revenue models in an era of media transformation.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-13T02:43:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241253143
       
  • Audience evaluations of news videos made with various levels of
           automation: A population-based survey experiment

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      Authors: Neil Thurman, Sally Stares, Michael Koliska
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The use of automation in news content creation is expanding from the written to the audio-visual medium with news organizations including Reuters turning to video automation services provided by companies such as Wibbitz. Although researchers have explored audience perceptions of text-based news automation, to date no published study has examined how news consumers perceive automated news videos. We conducted a between-subjects online survey experiment to compare how a socio-demographically representative sample (n = 4200) of online news consumers in the UK perceived human-made, partly automated, and highly automated short-form online news videos on 14 different story topics. Our findings show that human-made videos received on average more favourable responses on some evaluation variables, although the differences were not large. We also found some significant differences in the relative evaluation of automated and human-made news videos across different individual stories. For practitioners our results suggest partly automated news videos with post-automation human editing can be well received. For researchers our results show the need to use reasonably large sets of experimental stimuli, and suggest that ensuring socio-demographic variation within samples of respondents is worthwhile.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-08T09:41:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241243189
       
  • Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist
           journalists

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      Authors: TJ Thomson
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study explores a key question around local visual news: what do non-specialist journalists regard as a quality news visual' This study focuses on still images as the most ubiquitous building block in the local visual news landscape, whether as thumbnails that are shared with links on social media platforms, as hero images accompanying articles, as photo galleries, or as still frames extracted from videos. Much of what we know about a quality news visual comes from the perspectives of visually literate specialists: photo editors, photojournalists, and related roles. Yet, despite the ubiquity of photographs within print and digital news, they are increasingly being made not by staff photojournalists but, rather, by freelancers, words-based reporters, or community members. As these dynamics have shifted over the past two decades, scholarship has struggled to keep up with how non-specialist journalists define the attributes and properties of a quality news visual. This study aims to address this gap within the context of local and regional news using an interview-based approach and finds that interviewees most commonly defined quality news photographs through the lens of news values, followed by technical considerations and narrative dimensions, aesthetics, the perceived effect the visual had on the audience, how the visual was made and presented, and who or what was photographed.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-07T12:24:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241253136
       
  • Pandemic politics and public sphere: A critical discourse analysis of
           COVID-19 in letters to the editor of leading Odia newspapers

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      Authors: Deba Prasad Nayak, Bidu Bhusan Dash, Sarthak Abhyudaya
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper analyzed the letters to the editor of four leading Odia dailies by applying critical discourse analysis to understand how this section contributes as the public sphere and discusses politics around the second wave of COVID-19. The period considered for study was during the peak of the COVID-19 second wave in India – from April to September 2021, which witnessed many deaths and devastation. During the period the maximum number of letters were written around COVID-19. Upon analyzing the letters, it was concluded that the letters covered five major concerns of the pandemic – the political state within the country and the politics around the vaccine, the availability of the vaccines, the condition of senior citizens and children, the struggle to strike a balance between life and livelihood, and the ongoing crisis in the education sector due to the pandemic. As a public forum for debate, the newspaper readers resorted to the letters to the editor section where they effectively communicated their experiences and problems related to the pandemic. The letters shed light on the real issues on the ground. During COVID-19 the general public craved a forum to share their opinion and express their issues and problems. The letters to the editor section proved to be an effective public forum in this regard. Though the study was conducted in Odisha, a coastal state of India, its findings have a greater implication for the vernacular dailies in the Global South.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-06T10:58:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241252257
       
  • Tech trends: Wired’s treatment of emerging technologies (2021-2023)

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      Authors: Guillermo Echauri
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article analyzes Wired’s treatment of three emerging technologies: NFTs, the metaverse, and generative AI, as reflected in the content of their website during the period 2021–2023. Through thematic analysis, the research has found that Wired’s treatment of these three technologies participates in the emergence of hype trends while also departs from the techno-deterministic perspective historically attributed to the magazine by scholarship. Therefore, the study establishes that Wired’s treatment of the characteristics and implications of NFTs, the metaverse, and generative AI involves this journalistic outlet in shaping journalistic, digital, and technological trends that reinforce a sense of constant updating in technological innovation. In addition, it has been found that Wired provides a heterogeneous, comprehensive, and moderate treatment by recognizing the potential of these technologies to impact various aspects of human existence while subjecting them to criticism.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-02T08:03:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241251966
       
  • Diasporic citizen journalism: Exploring the discussion on the 2022 blank
           paper protests in the Chinese twitter community

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      Authors: Jing Zeng, Calvin Yixiang Cheng
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Departing from the conventional nation-state framework, this paper explores citizen journalism from a translocal and transnational perspective. Focusing on Chinese diasporic communities on Twitter, the study presents an explorative inquiry into the phenomenon of diasporic citizen journalism. Through an empirical case study of the 2022 Blank Paper Protests (BPP) in China, the research reveals the pivotal role the Chinese Twitter-sphere played as a vital platform for cross-border news production and sense-making during a critical event. The study also illuminates the diversity, networked dynamics, and internal conflicts within the Chinese digital diaspora concerning the BPP. Theoretically, this paper underscores the imperative need to expand the horizons of citizen journalism research, suggesting diasporic citizen journalism as a new avenue for future exploration. Methodologically, the study showcases the potential of state-of-the-art computational methods, including Large Language Models (LLMs), in advancing journalism research. The methodology employed in this study exemplifies the integration of LLMs to enhance automated topic and sentiment analysis.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-05-02T06:58:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241250191
       
  • Handling racism in a radio phone-in programme: Telling it like it is

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      Authors: Yarong Xie, Kevin Durrheim
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      It is widely acknowledged that broadcast programmes are produced to serve the public’s interest. Presenting the programmes in a neutral and objective fashion, and engaging the audience in forming opinions, are common ways of achieving this. However, studies have suggested that there is a departure from these practices when the object of broadcast becomes societal problems such as racism. This case study examines how a presenter responds to a caller’s abuse in two live radio shows, and how she sets out a programme - and a new conversation - using her personal experience of racism/xenophobia. Using conversation analysis and discursive psychology, we studied the situated use of language and the actions being brought about. We found that the presenter assesses the caller’s abuse by rudeness on the spot, formulating the call as disruptive to an ongoing conversation. On the following day, the presenter revisits, and topicalises, this call as xenophobia and racism. Our analysis revealed that the presenter’s shift in evaluating this call is grounded in, and licensed by, her drawing on and cultivating a sympathetic listenership, characterising the call as race-driven, and formulating her personal experience as of public’s concern. Our findings spotlight the presenter’s orientation to her moral accountability in talking about racism, and the potential of broadcast in leading conversations on anti-racism.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-30T01:49:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241250196
       
  • Risky business: How metrics obfuscate journalistic values with traffic
           volumes in digital news production

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      Authors: Sherine P Conyers
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Based on ethnography from Australian digital newsrooms, this research shows how content production is split into two forms: Original news reporting is considered an act of ‘journalistic discovery,’ while content produced to appease metric indicators is considered an act of ‘metric confirmation.’ By conceptualising the digital space as a “glut of occurrences” (Tuchman, 1978: p.44-45) to be filled, the two case studies shown in this work inform how temporality and metrification intertwine to posit metric confirmation as low-risk, low-cost, high-gain work, while acts of journalistic discovery are comparatively high-risk and high-cost, with unknown outcomes. I argue that the inundation of metrics into newsrooms obfuscates other more crucial news values and poses challenges for the future of journalism when digital distribution is increasingly dependent on third parties while responsibility for commercial success has been shifted onto editorial staff.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-30T01:20:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241249881
       
  • Met expectations, job satisfaction, and intention to leave: The effects of
           discrepancy between job expectations and experiences on journalists’
           intention to leave

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      Authors: Na Yeon Lee
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study examined whether and to what extent journalists’ unmet expectations about their work as journalists affect their job satisfaction and intention to leave based on the Met Expectation Model used in organizational behavioral research. Representative survey data of South Korean women journalists showed that before entering the news industry women journalists had three types of expectations about journalists’ work: Professionalism & Compensation, Attractiveness of Journalism Work, and Public Service. Findings of this study showed that Public Service was the most important expectation whereas Professionalism & Compensation was the least important. Regarding the three types of discrepancy between journalists’ pre-entry expectations and post- experience perceptions, Public Service showed the highest level of discrepancy. Levels of discrepancy were also found to be negatively associated with journalists’ job satisfaction and positively related to their intention to leave, while journalists’ job satisfaction mediated the relationship between the levels of discrepancy and the journalists’ intention to leave.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-29T05:04:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241248235
       
  • Reimagining American public media: A key infrastructure for local
           journalism

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      Authors: Louisa Lincoln, Victor Pickard
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      As the state of U.S. local journalism continues to deteriorate, contributing to growing news deserts and the proliferation of mis- and disinformation, alternative models for sustaining local news are increasingly paramount. One such alternative to the failing commercial model that deserves more attention, we argue, is the American public media system. While less robust than its international counterparts, the U.S. public media system tends to be less reliant on market support, less subject to commercial pressures, and more devoted to a universal service mission. This study explores to what extent the American public media system may serve to lessen the severity of the local journalism crisis. Drawing on interviews and conversations with two dozen public media practitioners and analysts, our research examines how public media could be reimagined and repurposed to better serve local information needs. We conclude that a renewed investment in the existing system in tandem with structural reforms presents a possible pathway towards a more sustainable future for local news.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-26T10:41:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241248018
       
  • ‘Money is the root of all evil.’ How the business of
           journalism shapes trust in news

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      Authors: Jacob L Nelson, Seth C Lewis, Brent Cowley
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In journalism studies, the “audience turn” in recent years has shifted attention in important ways to the lived experiences of news consumers. This study adds to the growing body of literature by exploring the question: How do people’s assumptions about how news is paid for affect their trust in and approach to news' Our data draw from interviews conducted in 2022 with 34 news consumers who were constructively sampled to represent a diverse cross-section of U.S. adults. Guided by the folk theories concept, a generative approach to discovering the stories that people tell themselves about news, we find that news consumers see journalism as increasingly compromised by journalists’ perceived pursuit of profit and financial success in a competitive media environment. They feel that journalists are primarily motivated to profit off their attention, leading them to view most news with a great deal of skepticism. By situating audience perceptions of capitalism and its relationship to journalism at the center, this study brings a new dimension to ongoing discussions about trust, objectivity, and bias in reporting.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-25T07:14:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241246929
       
  • Excessive, flexible and (still) seen as gender neutral: Journalists’
           perceptions about their job during the Covid-19 pandemic

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      Authors: Juliana Alcantara, Rita Basílio Simões
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Mainstream newsroom routines have faced significant shifts in the last decades. Regardless of its nature, these changes can be seen from a gender perspective and framed within neoliberalism, seen as a structural force affecting people’s lives and an ideology of governance that shapes subjectivities. In this paper, we aim to discuss how neoliberalism influenced the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on newsrooms and journalists’ working conditions from a gender lens. For this purpose, thirty semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted between October and December 2021 with Portuguese female and male junior and senior journalists of different levels of hierarchy working in mainstream media. Their perceptions of the pandemic impact on news production show the intersections of sexism and neoliberalism in the newsroom settings. Journalists accept as part of the job the long working hours and the personal cost of health protection material and essential equipment to work from home while normalising the work-home conflict as a private woman’s matter. These findings are discussed as reflecting how neoliberal logic has made the impacts of the pandemic heavier, especially for women.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-22T10:11:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241244711
       
  • The effects of incidental news exposure on social media on Chinese youth:
           News diversity and online expression

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      Authors: Shuhuan Zhou, Xiaokun Yang
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Chinese youths––the “mobile internet generation”––are increasingly exposed to news incidentally through mobile social media. Based on the theory of incidental news exposure and semi-structured interviews with 41 Chinese youths, this study inductively explored the effects of incidental news exposure on news diversity and expression on social media from an audience-centered perspective. The results question previous findings of positive impacts of incidental news exposure on democratization, evidencing potential negative effects of incidental news exposure on news diversity and civic expression. This paper indicates possible reasons for those effects, highlighting the influence of citizens’ trust in official information sources and the social media censorship environment in China.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-16T06:16:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241246407
       
  • “Crew, don’t go anywhere near this man!” the co-construction of
           celebrity and responsible capitalism in broadcast interviews with a chief
           executive officer

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      Authors: Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Celebrity CEOs espousing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are receiving increasing media attention. However, researchers have not yet examined how CEOs and journalists co-create meaning about CSR in broadcast talk, an unscripted genre of news making, rife with contestation and cooperation. This paper presents a Conversation Analysis of six interviews featuring Dan Price, a CEO who pledged to “solve income inequality” by restructuring salaries in his company. Findings suggest that CSR anchored a process of double branding in which the CEO promoted himself and journalists reaffirmed their news philosophy. Price’s warm embrace by journalists across the political spectrum demonstrates a collaborative process of “celebrification”. Price created a transferable persona that appealed, through a mixture of political targeting and strategic ambiguity, to diverse audiences. Journalists elevated this persona by serving pseudo-criticism and showing identification. The story thus provided corporate media with the opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to “responsible capitalism”.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-15T10:05:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241246932
       
  • Hyperlocal citizen journalism in Hong Kong: Resilience through community
           newspapers

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      Authors: Kecheng Fang, Mengzhe Feng, Chun Hong Tse
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Despite severe political pressures on journalism and civil society after the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, over 20 community newspapers have continued their operation. Through content analysis of 60 issues of the papers and in-depth interviews with over 20 individuals involved in their establishment and operation, this study aims to unravel their intriguing resilience. Findings reveal that these papers adopted two non-confrontational content strategies: identity politics and life politics. On the one hand, by publishing “soft” content, they construct local identities and provide counternarratives to official discourse. On the other hand, they foster discussions on everyday life issues, bridging personal experiences with political engagement. Operationally, the voluntary nature and decentralized, collaborative structures cultivate a strong sense of community. We argue that community papers in Hong Kong represent an intersection of citizen journalism and hyperlocal journalism, which creates a unique resilience under political pressure.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-12T07:15:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241246900
       
  • Who covers what' Analyzing audience perceptions of gender differences
           in news beat coverage

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      Authors: Martina Santia, Lars Willnat, Stan Jastrzebski
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study investigates differences in news beat coverage between female and male journalists and their potential effects on audiences. We employ data from a representative survey of 1,600 U.S. journalists to show that female journalists are more likely to cover feminine beats (i.e., culture and health) and less likely to cover masculine beats (i.e., politics and sports) than male journalists. We complement this data with an online experiment to examine whether audiences value feminine beats covered by female journalists less than masculine beats reported by male journalists. Our results show that female journalists are not necessarily rated more positively when reporting on feminine beats—and feminine beats are not seen as more important when delivered by a female journalist.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-04T08:45:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241245201
       
  • Looking back at journalism ethics research over the past decade: An
           analysis of research in digital journalism, journalism, journalism
           practice, and journalism studies, 2013-2022

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      Authors: Yoonmo Sang, Na Yeon Lee, Soyoung Park
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This study aims to identify research trends and central concepts in the field of journalism ethics over the past decade. Focusing on four major journals—Digital Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies— this article presents key findings from a topic modeling analysis of articles published between 2013 and 2022. An analysis of 1170 journalism ethics-related studies revealed the most salient topic to be closely related to “news making practices.” This topic was followed by studies on social roles and values of journalism and ways to increase audiences’ trust and credibility in news. This study also found differences in major topics across the four journals. The articles in Journalism tended to center on news producers’ practices while approximately half of the articles in Digital Journalism focused on journalism practices in relation to technology and platforms. The second most studied topic in Journalism Practice were issues related to minority groups, such as women and children. Journalism Studies emphasized journalistic principles, such as transparency and credibility. While empirical assessments of the major trends in journalism ethics research have been lacking, this study helps fill this gap and establish a foundational understanding for future discussions on journalism ethics research, highlighting key recurring terms associated with journalism ethics.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-04T04:31:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241244712
       
  • Insurgency in northeast Nigeria: Are journalists safe to report'

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      Authors: Umaru A Pate, Abubakar Jibril
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article interrogates the effectiveness of the safety measures available for journalists in the challenging operational environment. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 16 journalists representing different organisations from the conflict-prone areas in northeast Nigeria. Findings reveal that journalists operate at high risks due to the absence of protective mechanisms, rendering them highly vulnerable in threats situations. Also, journalists go through physical and psychological attacks from insurgents, the military, and the communities. Recommendations are offered to provide safety mechanisms to reduce journalists’ psychological trauma and physical stress, increase their feelings of safety, and improve the quality of their inputs.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-02T08:01:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241245203
       
  • The future of our past: The absence of memory infrastructure in journalism

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      Authors: Sharon Ringel
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper explores the absence of memory infrastructure within news organizations and its implications for journalism. It draws upon interviews with journalists and staff members representing 20 prominent US news organizations. Through these interviews, the paper uncovers prevalent perceptions and misconceptions regarding the importance of preserving news content for future reference and accessibility. The research findings illuminate significant challenges journalists face in maintaining printed archives and highlight their inadequate preservation of digital publications. Instead, they often rely on external services such as Google and the Internet Archive for content retrieval. This study argues that the decline of print newspapers has unwittingly led to the erosion of a crucial component in the news production process—the news archive. The absence of this vital memory infrastructure leaves news organizations bereft of a critical resource and contributes to collective forgetfulness.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-04-01T09:10:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241242976
       
  • Disclosure of perpetrator origin in crime news: Changing practices in
           journalism after populist accusations'

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      Authors: Christoph Klimmt, Anja Dittrich, Robin Leuppert
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      If news reports on crime disclose the ethnic or national origin of suspects or perpetrators, severe consequences for audience stereotypes and public policy may arise. Thus, many professional codices advise journalists to limit origin disclosure to rare exceptions. Right-wing populists have, however, accused news media of obfuscating the ‘true dimension’ of immigrant crime. Conducting a content analysis of N = 10,943 crime reports released between 2013 and 2021 by 10 German newspapers, we investigated how journalists reacted to such attempted political influence. Findings show a massively increased frequency of news reports that included explicit or implicit cues to suspects’ or perpetrators’ origin, with a peak in 2018 and a subsequent decline in 2021. We interpret the results as a time-dependent effect of populist anti-media agitation that emerged after a large immigration wave to Germany in 2015 and 2016 but lost much of its impact a few years later, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Implications for journalism theory and ethics are discussed.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-29T04:24:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241243191
       
  • Coronaphobia or sinophobia: How journalistic practices in early COVID-19
           coverage and online commentary affect anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S.

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      Authors: Yiming Wang, Junhan Chen, Ran Tao, Sijia Yang
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Historically, pandemics have spurred an influx of disorganized information and escalated intergroup animosity, and COVID-19 is no exception. Pandemic reporting often features cues and testimonials to mark the distinction between “us” versus “them”; however, the influence of such journalistic practices on intergroup animosity remains largely unexplored during public health crises, let alone their potential interplay with ubiquitous user-generated comments that often accompany pandemic news stories in the digital era. We conducted an online survey experiment with a sample of U.S. participants (N = 1428) during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, systematically varying the presence of stigmatizing outgroup cues, testimonials from in-versus outgroups, and social media comments either predominantly endorsing or condemning xenophobia. Our findings reveal that stigmatizing outgroup cues amplified the effects of testimonials detailing ingroup suffering, thus heightening anti-Chinese sentiment. These results underscore the importance of evaluating the implications of journalistic practices in public health reporting on intergroup dynamics and social solidarity. Additionally, we found that online comments predominantly condemning xenophobia moderated the effects of ingroup testimonials in the direction of inducing more positive sentiments, highlighting the vital role of an engaged audience in moderating the influences of public health news coverage.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-27T07:55:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241241152
       
  • Tale of two requesters: How public records law experiences differ by
           requester types

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      Authors: A Jay Wagner, David Cuillier
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The journalism industry was central to the materialization of U.S. freedom of information (FOI) laws, yet journalists frequently voice dissatisfaction with the state of FOI laws. The study surveyed 330 public records requesters on their experiences with FOI laws, finding public-interest requesters (journalists, academics, nonprofits, and private individuals) reported a significantly different experience, including a lower likelihood of receiving records, than for-profit requesters (commercial requesters and lawyers). For-profit requesters were less likely to believe FOI laws positively impact government accountability or improve society. The findings suggest reassessing whom the laws serve and whether they meet their original democratic objectives.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-27T07:11:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241242988
       
  • Personalization of tech corporations: Examining personalized news and the
           media reputation of Google, Facebook, and Apple in Swiss news media

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      Authors: Sarah Marschlich, Mark Eisenegger
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Tech corporations, such as Google, Facebook, and Apple, have increasingly become the focus of public media attention and are subject to public scrutiny due to their prominence and scandals. Often, the news media reports on the corporations’ chief executive officers and founders as representatives of the corporations to make complex company-related information comprehensible and gain more public attention. The personalization trend in the news media has turned some corporate leaders into celebrities and is linked to tech companies’ media reputations, that is, the evaluations of tech companies in the news media. However, research on personalization in corporate news is rare and conflicting, and whether and how personalization is linked to the media reputations of Big Tech corporations is not yet clear. By focusing on different personalization types, this study investigates the relationship between personalization and the evaluation of tech companies in the news. A quantitative content analysis of media articles (N = 5234) in Swiss news outlets revealed that the news on tech companies is frequently personalized, and personalized news is more negative and more often related to the social aspects of tech corporations than non-personalized news. Our study indicates that personalization is used as a journalistic style in the news about tech corporations but is most common in negative reporting in which the role of tech corporations in society is critically assessed.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-25T11:44:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241243044
       
  • “SLAPPed” and censored' Legal threats and challenges to press freedom
           and investigative reporting

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      Authors: Lambrini Papadopoulou, Theodora A Maniou
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The issue of SLAPPs remains a largely understudied area in journalism studies. Limited academic work on the topic mainly focuses on its legal aspects and there is little empirical academic work engaging with the way SLAPPs are experienced by those who are personally involved. This study focuses on illuminating the impact of these vexatious and frivolous lawsuits on investigative journalism and press freedom, and recording whether journalists experience additional or different consequences from SLAPPs in comparison to other types of threats. Based on interviews with journalists who have experienced SLAPPs in recent years and documenting their personal experiences, the study sheds light on the hidden professional and personal costs of investigative reporting, attempts to assess this phenomenon in relation to its effects on journalism and journalists, and is one of the few to record and analyze journalists’ personal beliefs and experiences.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-23T12:48:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241242181
       
  • Interviewing Didier Raoult: The scientist who breaks the frame

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      Authors: Pierre Chartier
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper examines how normative roles of interaction in broadcast news interviews are disrupted during interviews with French expert immunologist and scientist Didier Raoult. The analysis is based on the organisation of the news interview as a particular form of institutional talk, and on the discursive features of expertise. There are three key aspects to the construction of Raoult as a central figure of the pandemic scene in France. The first is his prominent media presence online, the second is his regular appeal to historical events, in relation to France and to his family, and the third is his own status as director of a team of epidemiology experts at the IHU (Institut Hospitalier Universitaire) in Marseille. In the three interviews in the data set, these three aspects emerge as legitimate discursive grounding for his stance regarding the pandemic, and relevant treatment for the virus. The paper is organised as follows: the first part is a presentation of Didier Raoult and the mediated context from which the corpus of interviews is selected. In the second, the discussion focuses on the discourse of scientific expertise, and how Raoult constructs his expert status in the interviews. The final part will analyse how he puts this expert status to work as a discursive resource for disrupting the interactional norms that generally hold between journalists on the one hand, and interviewees on the other.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-22T09:52:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241241137
       
  • Unmasking greenwashing – the role of the news media in giving voice to
           whistleblowers in sustainable finance

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      Authors: Vesile Cinceoglu, Nadine Strauß
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Sustainable investing is on the rise within the financial sector. However, the honesty, reliability, and validity of the sustainable finance (SF) industry is currently facing increasing allegations and criticism, including from individuals within the sector. This paper aims to investigate how the news media give voice to whistleblowers in SF. To do so, a mixed methods approach was applied. First, expert interviews were conducted between March and April 2022 with individuals responsible for SF/ESG (‘environmental, social and governance’) investments in Europe as well as DWS whistleblower, Desiree Fixler. In parallel, the news coverage of two prominent whistleblowers in the ESG industry was examined using a qualitative, manual content analysis of articles from nine major financial news sites online. The findings of the interviews shed light on how the media provided whistleblowers a platform to expose organizational wrongdoings in the realm of SF. In addition, the content analysis showed that the financial news media provided a forum for information, criticism, and discussion about SF. The results provide innovative insights about whistleblower activities related to SF and greenwashing within the financial industry, and their portrayal in financial news media.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-21T07:48:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241241139
       
  • Different yet complementary: A systematic literature review on data
           journalism in visualization research and journalism studies

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      Authors: Francesca Morini
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This article surveys and compares literature on data journalism from two areas of inquiry: journalism studies and visualization research. As digital interfaces become an important access point for news, journalism and visualization scholars have begun to share a common research interest: data journalism. Given their radically different traditions and histories, these areas follow very different rules in how the topic is approached. The result is two parallel scholarships on data journalism with little points of contact. Arguably, developing research space for encounters and exchange of the two is an opportunity for expanding the academic discourse on data journalism. This study aims at opening this space of exchange through a systematic literature review. 121 articles, published between 2010 and 2023, are analyzed. Findings show that the two areas of research approach data journalism with very different aspirations. In relation to data journalism, journalism studies and visualization research could be compared with Lazersfeld’s distinction between critical and administrative research. These aspects cause various differences at an epistemic level, namely what, how and when knowledge about data journalism is produced.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-07T06:42:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241237897
       
  • Digital reputation indicator: A webometric approach for a global ranking
           of digital media

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      Authors: Magdalena Trillo-Domínguez, Ramón Salaverría, Lluís Codina, Félix De Moya-Anegón
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In this article we present the Digital Reputation Indicator (DRI), an innovative methodological tool that allows evaluating and comparing the reputation of digital news media on a global scale. In use since January 2023 by SCImago Media Rankings (scimagomedia.com), DRI is a composite assessment and measurement instrument that weighs web metrics originating from trusted, stable, and globally accessible sources. DRI provides a resource for the qualitative comparison of digital media according to a webometric model based on its level of citation by other websites (citationflow), the quality of the sites that link to the media (trustflow) and the level of authority scores associated with their domain (domain rating and authority score). This article explores the reliability of this webometric approach, which overcomes the limitations of the two media measurement paradigms used up to now: the most traditional, based on audience measurement, and the most recent, oriented towards popularity in social networks. In this article we present and test the consistency of the DRI as a resource for the building of a global ranking of digital media, an instrument that we consider to be of interest to both the academic and professional communities.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-03-05T09:53:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241237647
       
  • Going meta: Interaction at the normative boundaries of the news interview

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      Authors: Ian Hutchby
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      In the modern hybrid media landscape, the relations between journalists and politicians in arenas such as the broadcast news interview can seem less stable. Politicians and their advisors seem increasingly confident in identifying when and how to engage with political interviewers while journalists, in response, feel under pressure to intensify their role as scrutineering tribunes of the people. In such an environment, the normative interactional boundaries of the news interview itself can come under pressure from both sides, and even be breached. This article discusses the phenomenon of ‘going meta’ – occasions in which participants break out of the interview’s interactionally managed frame, and render topical the very practices that, ordinarily, constitute and reproduce the rules of that frame. Going meta is a practice that simultaneously breaches the ‘rules’ of the interview, and invokes the same rules in the construction of complaints about the behaviour of a coparticipant. The analysis shows how interview participants use going meta to raise questions of objectivity, truth, and the interests of ‘the people’, often in moments of heightened conflict talk.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-20T07:04:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241234446
       
  • Producing indefinite drafts of history: Journalists’ roles in historic
           revisionism in Europe and beyond

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      Authors: Abit Hoxha, Kenneth Andresen, Panagiotis Paschalidis, Anke Fiedler
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper seeks to explore to what degree revisionism and journalism interact in a European context. By looking at countries with troubled pasts, such as Greece and Spain, which are well into the European Union and also the euro-public sphere, and Kosovo, which uses European Integration as a framework to deal with its conflicting past, we aim to answer the crucial questions of what historical revisionism in journalistic productions is; how it emerges and how it is addressed by journalistic productions in such discourses. We use data from 22 semi-structured in-depth interviews with selected journalists who cover ‘troubled past,’ identified by searching content on the media with the same keywords. These journalists represent a pool of professionals who research the past and forensically deconstruct events and documents to come to new conclusions or re-interpretations of the past through present journalistic productions. Our data suggest that journalists indeed have a narrative of the past in their minds and are eager to explore it further in seeking an ideal professional role of finding out the truth as a counter-revisionist measure. In doing so, journalists also face competing loyalty between their identity and professionalism, belonging, and political situation. Greece, Spain, and Kosovo have suffered very different past conflicts and have different ways of dealing with the past, but journalists in all three countries compete for the true narratives of war and the past. Writing the first draft of history, they argue that the latter is continuously under revision.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-20T06:28:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241233381
       
  • ‘Thanks for being here with us’: Para-social interaction and the
           effects of pundit talk on the Hannity and Maddow shows

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      Authors: Andrea McDonnell, Adam Silver
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Contemporary American television news centers pundits as key voices in national political discourse. The most prominent pundits anchor their own programs, often during primetime hours, reaching large audiences . This paper analyzes pundits’ performance of a type of news talk that is designed to appear unscripted and therefore authentic, enhancing parasocial interaction (PSI) with viewers and affirming pundits’ roles as experts. Data collected from two of the most-watched pundit-helmed news shows—Hannity and The Rachel Maddow Show—suggests that pundits use greeting tokens, personal pronouns, repetition, and rhetorical questions during their opening monologues. We discuss the mechanisms through which punditry may contribute to political polarization by creating emphasis frames.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-17T03:42:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241232798
       
  • Visual representations of community in scholastic photojournalism: A
           thematic analysis of award-winning photographs from the national
           scholastic press association’s photo of the year contest

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      Authors: Leslie Klein
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      While journalism awards can enhance social capital and signify quality, they often reinforce a limited, negative perspective of what is newsworthy. This study builds on existing research examining award-winning photojournalism by focusing on the understudied population of student photojournalists. Via a qualitative analysis of 229 photographs from the National Scholastic Press Association’s Photo of the Year Contest, this research analyzes major visual themes and prevalent news values in award-winning scholastic photojournalism. The results from this exploratory study indicate that student journalists visually represent high school as a place for connection, collaboration, and citizenship and present a uniquely positive portrayal of their world. The findings also suggest that conventionalization of topics, tone, and techniques is present in student photojournalism award contests although the themes that are reinforced by this conventionalization are dissimilar to what has been observed in professional photojournalism contests.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-16T04:02:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241234443
       
  • Building a shared future between China and Africa: A framing analysis of
           China Radio International's podcast news China Africa Talk

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      Authors: Qingting Zhao, Jing Wu, Hao Gao
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      China has used broadcast for international communication in Africa since 1949, an important bridge connecting China and Africa. As digital audio media, podcasts also serve communication on Africa-related topics. News media work as the intermediaries between the public and the nation, and news framing is significant for the public to understand China-Africa relations. Regarding the limitations of traditional framing analysis, this study used a data-driven computational method, the Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN), to examine the news framing in China Radio Internationals (CRI’s) China Africa Talk. The findings revealed four frames in the podcast: cultural exchange, economic cooperation, sustainable development, and strategic cooperation, which indicates the efforts of China and Africa in building a community of shared future. Cultural exchange and sustainable development are two frames found in this study that highlight the differences in national propaganda content between podcasts and newspapers. Furthermore, podcasts in international communication, with digital media characteristics and young audiences, can promote the dialogue and communication between China and Africa.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-15T03:11:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241234179
       
  • Who controls ‘the narrative’' journalistic emplotment and political
           discourse in the networked public sphere

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      Authors: Paul Dawson
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Over the last decade there has been a massive spike in use of the word ‘narrative’ in both media reportage and political discourse. This essay interrogates the rhetorical function and theoretical assumptions of this widespread usage, arguing that narrative rhetoric operates as a form of metajournalistic discourse shaping coverage of domestic politics and international relations while revealing an anxiety about the authority of contemporary news media. The prominence and semantic variability of the word narrative in public discourse is both a symptom of and a response to an epistemological crisis wrought by information overload and a fragmented public sphere in the digital age. The essay examines usage of the familiar phrase ‘control the narrative’ to reveal how journalistic discourse self-reflexively frames the dynamics of cultural debate. In this formulation, ‘the narrative’ operates as a synonym for what Chadwick (2017) calls the ‘political information cycle' in a hybrid news system, signifying an ongoing discursive struggle in which news media construct their moral and epistemological Others in a global communications network: social media, foreign state-run media, and competing news media. By tracking the phrase in coverage of the global COVID-19 outbreak and the notorious Steele Dossier in five major US dailies throughout 2020, this article demonstrates how the metajournalistic quality of narrative rhetoric facilitates an intramedia struggle for moral and referential authority in the networked public sphere.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-09T10:42:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241231682
       
  • But whose harm' Towards the ethics of participatory advocacy journalism
           with unhoused populations

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      Authors: Vojtěch Dvořák
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Maximalist forms of media participation bring about innovative ways to empower people who experience homelessness while also holding the potential to challenge common stereotypes and media narratives related to homelessness. This paper is part of a broader research focused on developing media participation opportunities for unhoused populations. Its objective is to examine and discuss the compatibility of critical theories with media participation, drawing on the example of a participatory newspaper project conducted with unhoused people. The discussion is illustrated by several ethical issues that emerged from the process of co-creation. It concludes that critical theories provide a solid foundation for maximalist forms of media participation with unhoused people. However, it is crucial to acknowledge the potential risks associated with such participation endeavors. Therefore, it is recommended that the principles and practices of critical pedagogy be integrated into these projects. Furthermore, individuals involved in these efforts should be encouraged to draw on professional journalists’ ethical codes and values. Failure to do so may increase the risk of harm to the vulnerable population and undermines the potential for individual empowerment, ultimately hindering community empowerment.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-07T12:44:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241228093
       
  • Syrians in Turkey and their naturalization as Turkish citizens: A
           computational text analysis of newspaper data

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      Authors: Elçin Istif Inci, Dirk Speelman
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Following the civil war in Syria in 2011, migration from Syria in massive numbers has caused various political, demographic, societal, and cultural challenges in Turkey. The focus of this research is on how the issue of naturalization of Syrians as Turkish citizens has been presented in Turkish newspapers and to what extent the dominant perspective on the issue has shifted over time. For our computational textual analysis of Turkish newspaper materials published between 2012 and 2019, we compiled a corpus consisting of 15,276 news items from four newspapers featuring the co-occurrence of the words “Syria*” (Suriye*) and “citizen*” (vatandaş*) in the main body of their text. The newspapers include mainstream and pro-government (Milliyet with liberal tendencies, Sabah with center-right tendencies), and left-wing (Sol, Evrensel) perspectives. A two-step textual analysis was conducted on the corpus. First, dictionary-based topic modeling was used to chart which broader topics Turkish citizenship of Syrians is predominantly linked to the data, and how the predominance of topics shifted over time. Second, a collocation analysis of the word “refugee” (mülteci) yields a more fine-grained picture of the specific words and expressions that tend to appear often when Syrian refugees are discussed. In both steps, an aggregated general analysis was complemented with separate newspaper-specific analyses, thus allowing for the comparison of different newspapers. Findings show that Syrians in Turkey predominantly feature in the context of diplomatic and societal topics. While mainstream news sources approach the issue less critically, left-wing newspapers show more sensitivity to migrant rights in Turkey.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-05T09:27:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241231040
       
  • Social media posts as source for political news coverage inside and
           outside election campaigns: Examining effects on deliberative news media
           quality

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      Authors: Corinna Oschatz, Teresa Gil-Lopez, Dylan Paltra, Sebastian Stier, Tanjev Schultz
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Journalists increasingly cite and/or embed social media posts in news articles. While social media posts have been found to be of little deliberative quality, we do not know whether this also affects the deliberative quality of the news. Against the background of a hybrid media system and deliberative news media standards, we answer this research question with a content analysis of news articles including or not including posts from X (formerly Twitter) in the twelve widest-reaching German news websites prior and after the German general election 2021. We were particularly interested in the differences inside and outside election campaigns as the interdependence of the mass media and the political sphere is particularly pronounced during campaign periods. Results show that posts are more often cited and/or embedded in news articles inside than outside election campaigns. Articles including posts feature a greater number of actors but are not more diverse as mainly actors from the political center are referenced. Moreover, articles with posts are associated with a higher position responsiveness but on the other hand a decreased civility of the represented political discourse. This pattern only emerged inside but not outside campaign periods. These findings add to our understanding of contemporary hybrid media systems and the nature of political journalism during contentious political periods.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-05T03:27:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241231698
       
  • Using formulations to maximize differences of opinion during televised
           climate change panel interviews

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      Authors: Søren Beck Nielsen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      This paper discusses climate journalistic issues of polarization and ‘false balance’ based upon a study of Danish public service television panel interviews in which participants debate climate change politics. More specifically, the study uses Conversation Analysis to examine the host’s use of formulations. Formulations refer to utterances designed to give the gist (or its ‘natural’ upshots) of a co-participant’s preceding account. Analysis reveals that the host recurrently formulates a panelist’s assertion a bit stronger (e.g. more controversial), and subsequently makes an opposing participant comment upon this augmented version. The host, thus, actively solicits disagreement and rhetorically maximizes participants’ (latent) differences of opinion. This finding adds a new perspective to our understanding of the rise of the panel interview format, which is sometimes said to marginalize the host’s substantive journalistic role into a launcher of topics. It also offers points to ponder in a time where climate change communication researchers warn us that polarization is highly counter-productive in achieving shared understanding about the climate crisis, which we need to promote conversion.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-03T03:57:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241230802
       
  • ‘Softballs’ for ‘Hardballs’: The congenial political interview on
           right-wing partisan TV news outlets

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      Authors: Marianna Patrona
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Taking a conversation-analytic approach, this article examines potentially shifting norms of political interviewing against the surge of authoritarian populism and increasingly legitimated forms of political and discursive bias on affiliated partisan TV outlets. Based on four political interviews of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon on Fox News and GB News, the analysis documents changes in interviewing practices away from the conventions of accountability interviewing. These changes involve the design of IR questions, the interpersonal dynamics between IR and IE, and the interactional work performed by questions and political interviewing at large. It is demonstrated that, in the aftermath of organizational and ideological disruptions affecting partisan right-wing media such as Fox News, political interviewing enacts a congenial type of questioning, with attendant transformations in the negotiation of accountability. The analysis documents two variations of congenial interviewing practices, one in the absence of adversarial questioning, and the other in the presence of ostensibly accountability questions, that are nevertheless deployed as interviewer resources for doing strategic image-repair work in the benefit of the interviewee. The attested questioning practices have implications for the normalization of authoritarian populist discourses and agendas, and, also, for the future of journalism as watchdog and safeguard of democratic institutions in liberal democracies.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-02T04:22:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241228096
       
  • The podcast in the consumption agenda of Colombian digital users

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      Authors: Andrés Barrios-Rubio, Juan Felipe Reyes Espitia
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The proliferation of smartphones as the hub of consumption through screen devices has created a fresh path for accessing information, entertainment, and musical content. The digital ecosystem is revitalizing sound, and users are venturing into narratives and alternative formats that grab their attention and shape a content regimen that defines their sonosphere. This study centers on assessing audience indicators in digital repositories via surveys and systematized focus groups that characterize podcast listeners in Colombia. The main objective is to evaluate the podcast’s reach, thematic interests and developmental structures. In order to identify gaps for the effective expansion and integration of sound in devices and channels where audio content is widely used, this study examines the impact of podcasts on the sound culture of Colombians. In order to identify gaps for the effective expansion and integration of sound in devices and channels where audio content is widely used, this study examines the impact of podcasts on the sound culture of Colombians. The study also profiles Colombian sound consumers through display devices in the current radio landscape. The podcast serves as a means of linking novel audiences with auditory communication, a triangulation of radio content, music, and podcasts which syncs with digital consumption trends and deviates from the simultaneous and drawn-out consumption of radio broadcasts.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-02T03:38:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241231008
       
  • Coexistence of value construction and value destruction: The effect of
           social media news engagement and emotional news on news paying intent

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      Authors: Victoria Y. Chen
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Given that media practitioners extensively use emotional news to attract user attention on social media, this study examines the economic value of social media news engagement and emotional news and further investigates how social media news engagement mediates the relationship between emotional news on social media and paying intent. An analysis of survey data from Taiwan reveals that the exchange value of digital news depends on content-interaction engagement and the presence of heartwarming news content. In contrast, funny news that attracts attention decreases news paying intent. This study identified the economic value of content-interaction engagement. However, it revealed that exposure engagement did not increase the money that respondents were willing to pay. While content-interaction engagement is more difficult to achieve than exposure engagement, the economic value of the former is more than that of the latter. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings will be discussed.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-02T01:23:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241229261
       
  • To foreignize or to domesticate' How media vary cross-nationally in their
           degrees of incorporating foreign events

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      Authors: Thijs van Dooremalen, Jan Willem Duyvendak
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      While the domestication literature indicates how national media link foreign events to a country’s domestic affairs, it has thus far only examined modes of domestication - the ways through which these links are created. In this article, we introduce a different dimension of the phenomenon: degrees of domestication. This includes the extents to which a foreign event gets connected with the domestic. By making a topic-modeling analysis of French and Dutch newspaper articles about 9/11, the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, the Arab Spring and Donald Trump’s political rise, we provide an explorative case study of this dimension. We inductively arrive at a scale ranging from no to extreme domestication of the event, classified according to four degrees of domestication: (1) an entirely foreign affair; (2) a foreign political affair involving domestic actors; (3) a domestic political affair; (4) or a personal disruption. French newspapers score higher on the second degree, the Dutch ones on the third and fourth. A deepening of this pattern shows how these differences stem from two distinctive cultural repertoires that journalists and other media participants employ when relating to foreign events: a French one, which sees them as an opportunity to dominate the international political stage, and a Dutch one, which considers them a reason for reflecting on domestic or personal matters. These clear differences indicate the concept’s importance for the literature and for investigating it within other national media contexts.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-02-01T07:29:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849231223576
       
  • Politicization of fake news debates and citizen attitudes towards fake
           news and its regulation

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      Authors: Ki Deuk Hyun, Mihye Seo, Gunho Lee
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      As fake news becomes a pressing social concern, governments from many countries have considered legislation against fake news. This study examined how citizens formed opinions about fake news and an anti-fake news bill in South Korea where political elites provide polarized discourse regarding fake news and associated regulatory politics. Progressive leaders more intensely criticized fake news and proposed an anti-fake news bill whereas conservative leaders vehemently opposed the bill. The analysis of survey data showed that elite polarization may affect citizens’ perceptions of fake news and attitudes toward anti-fake news legislation. Strong partisans tended to believe that fake news is more hostile toward their in-group and had stronger third-person perceptions, and such perceptions were positively related to the support of anti-fake news legislation. Moreover, progressive voters tended to have stronger hostile and third-person perceptions than conservative counterparts, reflecting endorsement of their in-group leaders’ positions. News reception about the bill further increased the gap in the level of support for the bill between progressive and conservative citizens.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-01-30T09:56:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241231061
       
  • The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of
           politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37
           countries

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      Authors: Claudia Mellado, Daniel C. Hallin, Nicole Blanchett, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Daniel Jackson, Agnieszka Stępińska, Terje Skjerdal, Marju Himma, Karen McIntyre, Lutz M. Hagen, Pauline Amiel, Yasser Abuali, Nagwa Fahmy, Sandrine Boudana, Yi-Ning Katherine Chen, Sergey Davidov, Mariana De Maio, Maximiliano Frías Vázquez, Miguel Garcés, María Luisa Humanes, Petra Herczeg, Misook Lee, Christi I-Hsuan Lin, Jad Melki, Jacques Mick, Roberto Mincigrucci, Danka Ninković Slavnić, David Nolan, Dasniel Olivera, Samantha Olmedo, Marcela Pizarro, Fergal Quinn, Gabriella Szabó, Sarah Van Leuven, Diana Viveros Aguilar, Vinzenz Wyss
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role performance as a theoretical and methodological framework, this paper overcomes these shortcomings through a content analysis of 148,474 news stories from 365 print, online, TV, and radio outlets in 37 countries. We consider two fundamental system-level variables—liberal democracy and market orientation—testing a series of hypotheses concerning their influence on the interventionist, watchdog, loyal-facilitator, service, infotainment, and civic roles in the news globally. Findings confirm the widely asserted hypothesis that liberal democracy is associated with the performance of public-service oriented roles. Claims that market orientation reinforces critical and civic-oriented journalism show more mixed results and give some support to the argument that there are forms of “market authoritarianism” associated with loyalist journalism. The findings also show that the interventionist and infotainment roles are not significantly associated with the standard measures of political and economic structure, suggesting the need for more research on their varying forms across societies and the kinds of system-level factors that might explain them.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-01-30T03:59:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241229951
       
  • The impact of using person-centered language to reference stigmatized
           groups in news coverage

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      Authors: Caroline Murray, Anita Varma, Natalie Jomini Stroud
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      News coverage often uses stigmatizing language to label marginalized groups. Person-centered language has been discussed as a potential remedy, which this study tests for the first time. Using a between-subjects experiment with members of three marginalized groups (n = 339), we investigate whether news articles that use person-centered terms (e.g., “person with substance use disorder”) instead of stigmatizing terms (e.g., “drug abuser”) improve attitudes towards journalism. Findings show person-centered terms increased the perception that one’s group was humanized in the news article and marginally increased trust in news. This study highlights the importance of journalists’ careful consideration of the labels they apply to marginalized groups. Although trust-building efforts cannot be limited to the use of person-centered terms, this research shows that the linguistic change is a step in the right direction.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-01-18T04:56:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241228955
       
  • Local journalism and its audience

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      Authors: Lene Heiselberg, David Nicolas Hopmann
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Local media outlets are merging, cutting jobs, or closing, due to a loss in audiences and in advertising revenues in an era of digitalization of information environments. This development raises the question how local media outlets can respond to the ongoing digitalization of information environments to retain or even regain audiences and, hereby, their attractiveness for advertisers. This study uses a mixed methods audience research approach to examine the wants and needs of local journalism audiences, tapping into audiences’ functional, symbolic, emotional, and economic values. Since local journalism cannot survive without an audience, an understanding of audience wants and needs is fundamental to secure the future of local journalism. In conclusion, the study provides information on the different perceptions of local journalism held amongst citizen who pay for local journalism, who may be willing to pay, and citizens who do not want to pay for local journalism. This information is crucial for local media outlets to improve their strategies to retain and possibly even regain audiences
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-01-12T10:15:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849231173226
       
  • Noticed and appreciated' The role of argument diversity in enhancing news
           credibility and reader satisfaction

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      Authors: Thomas Zerback, Pascal Schneiders
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      Although viewpoint diversity is a key value for audiences, journalism and media policy, not much is known about how audiences process and evaluate it. This is critical because any positive effect we might expect from a broad range of views (e.g., on opinion formation) requires that recipients recognize and appreciate it as a part of news content. The current study examines how news readers process and evaluate argument diversity as a specific aspect of viewpoint diversity. In a 2 × 2 × 2 between-subject experiment, 1363 subjects were exposed to news reports containing a diverse or homogenous set of arguments in the context of two currently debated issues (artificial intelligence and immigration). Reports were either published by a single or multiple media outlets to determine potential differences between internal and external argument diversity. We find that readers not only recognize the presence of argument diversity, but that it leads to an increase in overall news satisfaction. This increase can be attributed to a higher credibility of news reports with diverse arguments.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-01-05T01:02:02Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849231226030
       
  • What is populism anyway' Newspaper representations of populism in Spain
           and Italy between emptiness and political partisanship

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      Authors: Carlo Berti, Arantxa Capdevila, Carlota M. Moragas-Fernández
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.
      The rise of populism in Europe has been accompanied by increasing use of the term in the media. This has been studied in the European press from the democratic corporatist or liberal media systems, but there is a lack of studies on southern Europe and the polarized pluralist media system. Using a content analysis of newspaper articles, we investigate the journalistic construction of populism in Spain and Italy, two countries belonging to the polarized pluralist media system. Results show that the notion of populism is often negatively connotated but remains quite vague and “empty”. Unlike previous results in northern and western European countries, political partisanship and parallelism play an important role in the use of populism in newspapers.
      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-01-02T10:40:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849231225309
       
  • Book review: Journalism in the grey zone: Pluralism and media capture in
           Lebanon and Tunisia

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      Authors: Simone Benazzo
      Pages: 1831 - 1834
      Abstract: Journalism, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Journalism
      PubDate: 2024-07-21T12:24:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266679
       
 
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