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The Role of Minority Political Groups in the Dissemination of Disinformation. The Case of Spain Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Elias Said-Hung, Marta Sánchez-Esparza, Daria Mottareale-Calavese
This study seeks to understand better the role played by minority political groups in Spain in promoting disinformation on Twitter. The study applies statistical analysis and topic modelling to pos...
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Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Michał Tkaczyk
Evidence on how journalistic role performance changes in time and in relation to which factors is largely missing. This study investigates the presence of civic, infotainment, and service roles in ...
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How the Pandemic Shaped the Digital Skills of Journalists in Turkey Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Eylem Yanardağoğlu, Esra Ercan Bilgiç
Digitalization process has been changing the work patterns and practices of media professionals all over the world in the last decade. This research focuses on perceptions of journalists in Turkey ...
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Assessing Physical and Digital News Spaces: Placemaking in Global South Journalism Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ruth Moon, Tryfon Boukouvidis, Fanny Ramirez
Homepages and front pages are both important places in the news production world. And yet, we know little about how these differ in contexts beyond Western Europe and the United States. This study ...
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Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Susanna Pagiotti, Anna Stanziano, Marco Mazzoni, Roberto Mincigrucci
The literature comparing journalistic roles around the world highlights different ways of understanding journalistic work across countries. One of the main differences in conceptualising concerns t...
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“Whether That’s Truly Objective Journalism, Probably Not”. Professional Retreatism and Professional Dilemmas When Reporting on Muslims Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Nadia Haq
Professional retreatism can be seen as a central concept in guiding journalistic role performance. It relates to how journalists distance themselves from the stories they produce by drawing upon pr...
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Political Communication and Mediatic Urgency: An Ethnographic Approach of Portuguese Parliamentary Journalists at Work Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 João Mineiro
What kinds of relationships exist between Members of Parliament (MPs), journalists, and spin doctors in Parliament, and how do these relationships influence the performance and representation of po...
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Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Abera Yenework Kebede, Adem Chanie Ali, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
This study explores contemporary journalists’ autonomy and role in the Ethiopian contested media practice by taking journalists working in Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). A qualitative research app...
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News Framing and Platform Affordances in Social Media Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sabina Civila, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando
Framing refers to the construction of narratives with specific intentions, emphasizing certain aspects of the story and omitting or obscuring others, thus affecting how audiences perceive social re...
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“You Feel Like You Don’t Have the Freedom to Do Your Work”: Exploring Fijian Women Journalists’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Folker Hanusch, Shailendra Singh, Birte Leonhardt, Geraldine Panapasa
The topic of violence against women in journalism has received growing attention in scholarship, especially in terms of digital forms of harassment. At the same time, many women journalists continu...
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Correction Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-16
Published in Journalism Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Journalists and Exposure to Trauma: Exploring Perceptions of PTSD and Resilience among Pakistan’s Conflict Reporters Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ayesha Siddiqua, Muhammad Zubair Iqbal
The study attempts to understand how Pakistani journalists perceive Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and resilience in the wake of covering traumatic events. Qualitative interviews of 32 Pakis...
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Unsilencing Stories: Creating a Counter-Memorial Podcast with Bereaved People Affected by Canada's Opioid Overdose Crisis Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Aaron Goodman, Jenna Keeble, Ashley Pocrnich
More than 32,000 people in Canada have experienced fatal opioid overdoses since a public health emergency was declared in 2016, according to Health Canada. Communities of less than 100,000 resident...
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Journalists’ Ideological Branding: Bridging Professional and Personal Branding on Twitter Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Arnon Kedem, Motti Neiger
Previous scholarship has identified three levels of journalists’ brand identity: individual, organizational, and institutional. Based on an exploration of Israeli journalists on the Hebrew-speaking...
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Tracing the Bulgarian Connection: Revisiting Ideology-Inspired News Coverage of Pope Assassination Attempt Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Mladen K. Petkov
The coverage of the trial in the assassination attempt against Pope John Paull II in the 1981 divided journalists in the United States. The dominant coverage relied on limited number of sources who...
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How the Social Complements, Extends or Replaces the Professional: Autonomy and Adaptation in Journalist–Source Relationships Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Milda Malling
This study uses the process model of journalistic roles and discusses how journalists perceive (normatively and cognitively) and enact (according to their narrated practice) their professional role...
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Feeding off Each Other: Journalistic Role Negotiations Between Local and Foreign Reporters in Nairobi Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Cecilia Arregui Olivera
Nairobi, a vibrant hub for international journalism in East Africa, hosts a varied mix of foreign and national reporters. This paper centres on the interplay between these groups and how their rela...
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Shifting Spaces: How Journalism Students Perceive their Training through the COVID-19 Pandemic Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Trish Audette-Longo, Christianna Alexiou
This study explores how journalism students in one Canadian post-secondary programme perceived their training through the pandemic. We draw on journalism pedagogy literature, Bourdieu’s field theor...
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Journalism in Transitional Context: Societal Hostility, Self-Censorship and the Expansion of “One Voice Journalism” Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Dalia Elsheikh, Daniel Jackson, Nael Jebril
The transformations in the media and political landscapes in Egypt over the last decade and their implications on media pluralism and freedom of expression are well documented. However, less is kno...
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Pakistani Women Journalists: Occupational Hazards in Their Intersectionalities of Gender, Culture and Profession Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Haroon ur Rasheed Baloch, Amira Firdaus, Iffat Ali Aksar, Farrah Dina Yusop, Jiankun Gong, Humaira Sharif
Grounded in the intersections of culture, gender and occupation, this paper explores the challenges and barriers faced by “elite” Pakistani women working in a journalistic profession steeped in mal...
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“Being there”: How Photojournalists Navigate Making Images During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kaitlin C. Miller, David L. Morris II, Nicole Smith Dahmen
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper explores visual journalists personal experience with safety concerns as they gather imagery. It delves into visual journalists’ impressions o...
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Journalistic Roles at the Local Press: Between Demographic Characteristics and the Commitment with the Community Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rubén Rivas-de-Roca, Francisco J. Caro-González, Isadora Sánchez-Torné
Local journalism plays an important role in the shaping of nearby communities, being relevant for participation. However, local media have been especially affected by the crisis of business model. ...
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Storying Climatically Changed Worlds — Potentials and Pitfalls of Future Journalism Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Gøril Borgen-Eide
This study explores the emerging phenomenon of future climate stories in journalism: stories where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) future scenario graphs are combined with st...
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Enacting Journalistic Authority: The Communicative Challenges and Competences of Live Two-Way Correspondents in Swedish Public Service Broadcasting Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mats Ekström, Åsa Kroon, Emil Östlund
Whenever a major event flares up in the world, we are bound to be met by correspondents reporting live on the news. The correspondents are typically promoted as authoritative voices. Their live tal...
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Between Headlines and Punchlines: Journalistic Role Performance in Western News Satire Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sara Ödmark, Jonas Nicolaï
News satire has proliferated worldwide and has emerged as a valid site for public discourse. What we see today is a spectrum of news satire formats ranging from the predominantly absurd and comedic...
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A Skills-driven Approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Journalism Curricula Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Matt Minich, Luis Loya, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Jessica P. Needle
Though journalism aspires to confront and dismantle systemic injustices, the real-world practice of journalism has often caused harm to marginalized communities and further entrenched oppressive sy...
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Worthy and Unworthy Refugees: Framing the Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Crises in Elite American Newspapers Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Mohammed el-Nawawy, Mohamad Hamas Elmasry
This research comparatively examined coverage of the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis and 2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis in five elite American daily papers. The study employed quantitative content analys...
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Navigating Ideals and Realities: On Using Reconstruction Interviews to Study Journalistic Roles Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Alexandra Schwinges
The study of journalistic roles has become a staple in journalism research. The concrete link between role perceptions and role performance, however, remains in a “black box”. This article introduc...
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Journalistic Role Performance in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Events, Media Systems and Journalistic Practice Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 David Nolan, Kieran McGuinness, Jee Young Lee, Kate Holland, Monique Lewis
This study analyses data gathered as part of an international comparative study of journalistic role performance during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We situate role performance at the i...
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Who Gets a Voice in Homelessness? A Content Analysis of Quotations Used by Journalists Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Laura Moorhead
Researchers have explored journalists’ use of sources, particularly experts; however, they have rarely considered homelessness alongside journalists’ use of sources, notably individuals with lived ...
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“A Mercenary, a Thug … not Even a Journalist”: The Stigmatization of News Workers in Mexico Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Víctor Hugo Reyna
This article proposes a novel approach to anti-press discourse by defining it as stigmatization of journalists and developing a case study on the most dangerous country for the practice of journali...
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The Promotion of Hate Speech: From a Media and Journalism Perspective Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Elias Said-Hung, Julio Montero-Díaz, Marta Sánchez-Esparza
This work presents the key ideas of the 13 works that make up the special issue, “The Role of News Media in Promoting Hate Speech,” exploring the mechanisms by which hate speech spreads in media-re...
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Hate Speech on Twitter: Vox in the Catalan Parliamentary Elections Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Pablo Berdón Prieto, Virginia Martín Jiménez, Jacobo Herrero Izquierdo, Itziar Reguero Sanz
The Spanish far-right Vox party ran for the first time as a candidate for the Catalan parliamentary elections in February 2021. This paper analyses the party's political discourse on Twitter during...
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Analysing the News Coverage of “Pet Regret” in the UK Through the Framework of Nonviolent Communication Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Diana Garrisi
Drawing on the tenets of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), this paper presents a discourse analysis of UK news coverage regarding the phenomenon commonly referred to as “pet regret”. This is an infor...
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The Same or Worse? Juggling the Private and Professional Lives of Women Journalists during Pandemic Coverage Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Juliana Alcantara, Rita Basílio Simões
Awareness of how journalists report critical events is crucial to acknowledge the media's social consequences. Especially during emergent public health threats such as the covid-19 pandemic, whose ...
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“We Hold that Roe and Casey Must Be Overruled.” #scotus: Digital Journalism on Abortion Rights Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Kelli S. Boling, Jessica Walsh
Using discourse analysis to examine 3995 tweets by 1939 journalists following the leak of the Roe v. Wade decision on 3 May 2022, through the final opinion on 24 June 2022, this study analyzes how ...
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Institutionalization of Hate Speech as a Daily Media Practice: The Case of “Wiadomości” TVP1 Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Marek Jeziński
In the article, I discuss how hate speech becomes institutionalized in the media discourse thanks to the news media and how it is included in the media practice by public television in Poland. Hate...
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Under Attack in the Cyber Battlefield: A Scoping Review of Journalists’ Experiences of Cyberharassment Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Francesca Sammut, Malcolm Bezzina, Josianne Scerri
This scoping review synthesises evidence on journalists’ experiences of online harassment. This review aims to (i) understand the prevalence and impact of cyberharassment among journalists, (ii) ex...
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Locked Up: Local Newsrooms Managing a Digital Shift at the Centre of the Covid-19 Outbreak Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Signe Ivask, Lenka Waschková Císařová
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, newsrooms mediated information as quickly as possible for their information-starved audience. In Estonia, Covid-19 initially impacted two large islands, which ...
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(Lost) Pride and Prejudice. Journalistic Identity Negotiation Versus the Automation of Content Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jan Kreft, Monika Boguszewicz-Kreft, Mariana Fydrych
The objective of our research was to broaden the knowledge regarding the relationship between the work of journalists and their professional identity, and, in particular, to identify the attitudes ...
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Exploring the Nexus of Citizen Journalism, Technology, and Psychology: Insights from Palestinian Journalists Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Ibrahim Horoub
This article delves into the intricate world of citizen journalism, exploring the dynamic intersection of technology and psychology. Through confidential interviews with 12 journalists in Palestine...
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Designing the Visual Gateways into Crime News: A Comparison of Youtube Thumbnails from Journalists and Non-Journalists Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 T. J. Thomson, Mary Angela Bock
Thumbnails and link previews play an outsized role in determining which online content is shared, seen, and engaged with. But conventions for these vary depending on the platform and the content cr...
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Journalism as War: Tracing the Predatory Culture and Economy of the Pak-Afghan Cross-border News Practices Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Syed Irfan Ashraf, Azmat Khan, Faizullah Jan
Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Pashtun war journalists, this study explores the cross-border news practices and its underlying economy in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region that straddles ...
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Empowering the Public Sphere or Echoing Official Sources? Journalists’ Use of Twitter in Conflict-affected Societies Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Christiana Karayianni
In the conflict-affected Cypriot society, journalism’s role becomes crucial in providing a conducive environment for peace process. The article studies the Cypriot journalists’ use of Twitter durin...
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All My Friends Know The Slow Writer: Contextualization, Explanation, Fairness and Equity in Sports Illustrated’s Daily Cover Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Ryan Broussard, Marcus Funk, Prachi Vashisht
Sports Illustrated has a long legacy of respected longform journalism and a well-documented history of oversexualizing female athletes and underrepresenting women’s sports. In March 2020, the magaz...
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Social Media and Sports Journalism in Zimbabwe Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Lyton Ncube, Admire Mare, Itai Muzondo
Social media has opened up alternative spaces for the production, distribution, and consumption of sports news across the world. Previously, legacy media were the main spaces through which sports n...
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Independent Journalism for Hybrid Democracies: A Systemic Vision in Three Latin American Countries Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Mauro Marino-Jiménez, Ana-María Flores-Núñez, Fany-Olinda Rojas-Noa, Paola Vásquez-Espinoza
Contemporary journalism is facing challenges because several changes in the world: the decline of democracy,: the proliferation of false information (both in “official” and informal spaces), the ra...
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(Un)Reporting Xenophobia: Normalising and Resisting Officials’ Discriminatory Discourse on Migration in Online Journalism in Cyprus Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Dimitris Trimithiotis, Chris Voniati
This article draws on existing research suggesting that media discourses may contribute in normalising xenophobia. Its objective is to advance these studies by investigating not only how journalist...
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Can We Detect Bias in Political Fact-Checking? Evidence from a Spanish Case Study Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Alejandro Fernández-Roldán, Carlos Elías, Carlos Santiago-Caballero, David Teira
Political fact-checkers evaluate the truthfulness of politicians’ claims. This paper contributes to an emerging scholarly debate on whether fact-checkers treat political parties differently in a sy...
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News in Motion: A Quantitative Analysis of Incremental News Updates by Flemish Online News Outlets Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Yoram Timmerman, Sarah Van Leuven, Antoon Bronselaer
Online news has rapidly claimed its place in the media landscape, and with it came the practice of incremental news updates being integrated in existing content. Yet, considering this fluid news pr...
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Patterns of Journalistic Role Performance during Public Health Crises: Covering COVID-19 in the UK Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Xin Zhao, Jamie Matthews, Daniel Jackson, Claudia Mellado, Yasser Abuali, Einar Thorsen, Antje Glück
While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance (“JRP” thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP during public health cr...
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Media Consolidation and News Content Diversity: A Deductive Framing Analysis of Belgian Refugee News Coverage Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Michael Pakvis, Jonathan Hendrickx
Growing groups of scholars express fears that rising media ownership consolidation negatively affects news content diversity. Existing research has mainly focused on quantitative studies, thereby s...
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Miss(ing) Representation: Examining How Race Shaped News Coverage of Missing Women Surrounding Gabby Petito’s Disappearance Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Lauren Furey, Jason Turcotte, Janean Sorrell, Nadia Urbina, Emily Frisan, Nicolas Corrales
Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman, went missing during a cross-country road trip in September 2021. Police later found Petito’s body in Wyoming and traced the cause of death to her fiancé, wh...
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Are Generations Really Divided by Climate? Preference for Conflict in Fridays for Future Media Coverage Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Lenka Vochocová, Jana Rosenfeldová
This paper analyses the role of the media in the representation of youth climate action, specifically the media tendency to construct the age-related aspects of climate change through a conflictual...
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Online Harassment and Trolling of Political Journalists in Pakistan Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Mingjuan Li, Shabir Hussain, Sana Barkat, Hajra Bostan
This study examines the online harassment faced by political journalists in Pakistan on Twitter, specifically focusing on the actions of users affiliated with various political parties. By selectin...
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A Different Kind of Boosterism: Black Press Coverage of Atlanta Stadium Construction Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Adrianne Grubic
ABSTRACT From 1960 until 2017, Atlanta’s commitment to sports could be seen in the construction of multiple stadiums. These projects came at a price, usually taking away space from established Black neighborhoods. This article analyzes how the Black press wrote about the effect on their own communities. More than 300 articles from the conservative Atlanta Daily World and its weekly counterparts, The
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News Closures, Trust, and Community Attachment among Regional News Audiences: A Case Study of Australia Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Sora Park, Jee Young Lee, Caroline Fisher
ABSTRACT Local media play a critical role in providing information and opportunities for citizens to participate and feel attached to their local community. In recent years, there has been a decline in local news outlets and the provision of local news, which can impact residents’ sense of community. Findings from an online survey of 2,038 Australian regional news audiences conducted in 2019 reveal
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Exploring Discursive Strategies of Dark Participation: User Comments on Migration in New York Times and Τhe Guardian Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou, Maria Avraamidou
ABSTRACT Digital media have multiplied the range of voices circulating in the public sphere(s), a terrain where journalists enjoyed special communication power. Despite optimism, research has offered mixed findings regarding the outcomes of participatory journalism assuming both constructive and negative interactions. This article draws from, and contributes, to a more nuanced exploration of “dark
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Sustainability and Environmental Communities of Practice’s Impact on News Content Diversity Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Serena Miller, Bruno Takahashi, Ruth Heo, Jonus Cottrell
ABSTRACT Communities of practice (CoP) are distinct community groups that share a common interest in which they interact with one another to address problems and reach goals. In the present study, we investigated one niche community—sustainability and environmental communities of practice—to determine whether stronger communities of practices differed from weaker ones. We developed a summative index
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Covering Feminicidios: How Mexican Journalists Fight to Improve Representation of Violence Against Women Journalism Practice (IF 2.328) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Miriam Hernández
ABSTRACT In the last decades, there have been multiple calls to challenge the way Mexican journalists report on the everyday violence women face in the country, particularly the coverage of feminicidios (femicides). To better understand newsroom challenges, the present study uses the hierarchy of influences model to explore the different levels of influence that shape feminicidio news in Nuevo Leon