2025
Tali Aharoni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
The Ecology of News (Dis)trust
Advisor: Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt

2024

Ayala Panievsky (University of Cambridge):
Breaking the News. When Populists Turn Against the Media
Advisor: Ella McPherson

2023

Alison Steinke (University of Minnesota):
The Institutionalization of Solutions Journalism
Advisor: Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
Co-advisor: Matthew S. Weber

2022

Kenza Lamot (University of Antwerp):
Metrics for News: The Uses and Effects of Analytics in Journalism
Advisors: Steve Paulussen and Peter Van Aelst

2021

Natacha Yazbeck (University of Pennsylvania):
What We Talk About When We Talk About Journalism: From Syria and Yemen, A Reexamination of Eyewitnessing, Transparency and Trauma
Advisor: Barbie Zelizer

2020

David Cheruiyot (Karlstad University):
Criticising Journalism: Popular Media Criticism in the Digital Age
Advisors: Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson

2019

David Conrad (University of Pennsylvania):
Misguided Benevolence: How ‘Moments of Need’ Came to Motivate American Journalism
Advisor: Barbie Zelizer

2018

Allie Kosterich (Rutgers University):
Rapid Institutional Change, Professional Journalists and the Rise of the News Nerd
Advisor: Matthew Weber

2017

Rachel Mourão (University of Texas at Austin):
From Mass to Elite Protests: How Journalists Covered the 2013 and 2015 Demonstrations in Brazil

2016

Tanja Aitamurto (University of Tampere):
Collective Intelligence in Open Journalism: Power, Knowledge and Value

2015

Eike Mark Rinke (University of Mannheim):
Justificatory News: Investigating the Contextual Antecedents of Justification in the News

2014

Matthew Powers (University of Washington):
Humanity’s Publics: NGO’s, Journalism and the International Public Sphere, dissertation conducted at New York University

2013

Robert (Ted) Gutsche (Florida International University):
Mediated Constructions and Lived Experiences of Place: An Analysis of Neighborhood News and Mental Mapping, defended in 2012 at University of Iowa

2012

Nik Usher (University of Southern California):
Making Business News in the Digital Age, defended in 2011

* This page is still being updated. If you know any award recipients from before 2012, please send their names to mathias.felipe@unifesp.br.