2025

1. Jolan Urkens (University of Amsterdam), Michael Opgenhaffen (KU Leuven), Peter V. Aelst (University of Antwerp), Ike Picone (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
   Combatting disinformation on Instagram and TikTok: The Effects of Different Fact-check formats on information recall and evaluation
   
   
2. Mark A. Coddington (Washington and Lee University), Zvi Reich (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Lada T. Price (University of Sheffield), Claudia Mellado (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), Milda Malling (Södertörn University), Lenka Waschkova Cisarova (Masarykova Univerzita), Avshalom Ginosar (Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel), Rubén Gonzalez, Antoine Faure (University of Santiago Chile), Leticia Hernández (San Francisco State University), Archana Kumari (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dominique Merchetti (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Sergio Splendore (Università degli Studi di Milano), Sarah Van Leuven (Ghent University), Pantelis Vatikiotis (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), Florian Wintterlin:
   Comparing News Beat Structures Across 13 Countries: From Geographic to Topical and Sub-Specialised Division of Labour
   
   
3. Babette Hermans (KU Leuven), Cato Waeterloos (KU Leuven), Michael Opgenhaffen (KU Leuven), Peter V. Aelst (University of Antwerp):
   Who Engages with Fact-Checking? Identifying Factors Influencing Exposure to and Engagement with Multi-Platform Verification

2024

1. Michael K. Dieringer (University of Missouri), Yong Volz (University of Missouri):
   Mapping Epistemological and Methodological Approaches and Trends: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies in Four Journalism Studies Journals
   
   
2. T.J. Thomson (Queensland University of Technology), Ryan James Thomas (Washington State University), Phoebe Matich (Queensland University of Technology):
   Generative Visual AI in Newsrooms: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies
   
   
3. Constanza Gajardo (Universidad de Concepción), Claudia Mellado (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso):
   “Journalists Are Just Employees:” Examining Journalistic Autonomy from an Audience Perspective

 2023

 

1. Minna Koivula, Mikko Villi (University of Jyväskylä), Tiina Saari (University of Tampere):
   “I Love Learning New Things”: An Institutional Logics Perspective on Learning in Professional Journalism
   
   
2. Lu Wei Rose Lvqiu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Shuning Lu (North Dakota State University):
   When Reality Doesn’t Meet Expectation: Exploring the Dynamics of Audience-Journalist Interactions on Social Media During the Hong Kong Protests
   
   
3. Ryan J. Thomas (Washington State University), T.J. Thomson (Queensland University of Technology):
   What Does a Journalist Look Like? Visualizing Journalistic Roles Through AI

2022

1. Stefan Geiss (NTNU):
   Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy
   
   
2. Raphael Kösters, Olaf Jandura, Ralph Weiß (HHU), Melanie Magin (NTNU), Birgit Stark, Miriam Christina Klein (University of Mainz), Linards Udris (University of Zurich), Andreas A. Riedl (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Ralph Weiß(HHU):
   Diverse Core, Unbalanced Fringes: Assessing the Performance of German News Media When Covering Migration”
   
   
3. Denise Fechner (University of Bremen), Christian Pentzold (University of Leipzig):
   Predictive Data Stories: Typology of a Nascent Data Journalistic Genre

2021

1. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University):
   Precarity in Community Journalism Start-Ups: The Deep Story of Sacrifice
   
   
2. Johan Lindell (Uppsala University), Katarina Gidlund, Terje Lindblom (Mid Sweden University):
   Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Rethinking Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus
   
   
3. Efrat Nechushtai (George Washington University), Rachel Elizabeth Moran (University of Washington): Before Reception: Trust in the News as Infrastructure

 2020

1. Aviv Barnoy (Zefat Academic College), Zvi Reich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev):
   News Reporters’ Trust: A Study of Source and Message Credibility
   
   
2. Steen Steensen (Oslo Metropolitan University), Raul Ferrer-Conill (Karlstad University), Chris Peters (Roskilde University):
   (Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement
   
   
3. Raul Ferrer-Conill (Karlstad University), Erik Knudsen (University of Bergen), Corinna Lauerer (LMU Munich), Aviv Barnoy (Zefat Academic College):
   The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content

 2019

1. Christian von Sikorski, Desiree Schmuck, Jörg Matthes, Claudia Klobasa, Helena Knupfer, Melanie Saumer (University of Vienna):
   Do Journalists Differentiate Between Muslims and Islamist Terrorists? A Content Analysis of Terrorism News Coverage
   
   
2. Mel Bunce (University of London), Kate Wright (University of Edinburgh), Martin Scott (University of East Anglia):
   Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism
   
   
3. Neil Thurman, Thiemo Hensmann (LMU Munich), Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford):
   Large, Loyal, Lingering? An Analysis of Online, Overseas Audiences for UK News Brands

2018

1. Lei Guo (Boston University):
   The Rise of Non-Official Voices in China: Intermedia Agenda Setting in a Controlled Media Environment
   
   
2. Janet Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University), Meily Cheung, Shu Yan Lam (Hang Seng Management College):
   Who Has a Say in Political Election? Framing in the Era of Big Data
   
   
3. Caroline Fisher (University of Canberra), Eileen Culloty (Dublin City University), Jee Young Lee (University of Canberra):
   Regaining Control: Citizens Who Follow Politicians on Social Media – A Six Country Comparison

2017

1. Marc Ziegele, Oliver Quiring (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz):
   The Discussion Value of Online News: How News Story Characteristics Affect the Deliberative Quality of User Discussions in SNS Comment Sections
   
   
2. Lei Guo, Chris Vargo (University of Colorado-Boulder):
   Global Agenda Setting: A Big Data Analysis of International News Flow
   
   
3. Claudia Mellado (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), Arjen van Dalen (University of Southern Denmark):
   The Changes in Journalistic Role Performances in a Transitional Democracy Explained: A Cross-Longitudinal Study of Chilean Journalism between 1990 and 2011

 2016

1. Mark Boukes, Rens Vliegenthart (University of Amsterdam):
   A General Pattern of Newsworthiness? Analyzing News Factors in Tabloid, Broadsheet, Financial, and Regional Newspapers
   
   
2. Thomas Hanitzsch (LMU Munich), Tim Vos (University of Missouri – Columbia):
   Journalism Beyond Democracy: A New Look into Journalistic Roles in Civic and Everyday Life
   
   
3. Fen Lin, Xin He (City University of Hong Kong):
   The Losing Media? An Empirical Study of Defamation Litigation in China

2015

1. Folker Hanusch (Queensland University of Technology), Thomas Hanitzsch, Corinna Lauerer (LMU Munich):
   “How Much Love Are You Going to Give This Brand?” Lifestyle Journalists on Commercial Influences in Their Work
   
   
2. Avery Holton (University of Utah), Logan Molyneux (University of Texas):
   Identity Lost? The Personal Impact of Brand Journalism
   
   
3. Hartmut Wessler, Antal Wozniak, Lutz Hofer, Julia Lueck (University of Mannheim):
   Global Multimodal News Frames of Climate Change

2014

1. Andrea Umbricht, Frank Esser (University of Zurich):
   The Push to Popularize Politics: Comparing Public Affairs Coverage in Six News Systems since the 1960s
   
   
2. Michael Opgenhaffen, Harald Scheerlink (University of Leuven):
   Social Media Guidelines for Journalists: An Investigation into the Sense and Nonsense among Flemish Journalists
   
   
3. Katharina Emde, Daniela Schluetz, Christoph Klimmt (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media):
   Does Storytelling Help Adolescents to Process the News? Comparing Narrative News and Inverted Pyramid

 2013

1. Adrienne Russell (University of Denver), Mike Ananny (University of Southern California):
   Imagined Networks: How International Journalism Innovators Negotiate Authority and Rework News Norms
   
   
2. Matthew Matsaganis (SUNY–Albany), Vikki Katz (Rutgers University):
   How Ethnic Media Producers Constitute Their Communities of Practice: An Ecological Approach
   
   
3. Daniel Kreiss, Laura Meadows, John Remensberger (University of North Carolina):
   Political Performance and Active Spectatorship: Symbolically Organizing the Polity During the 2012 Democratic National Convention

2012

1. Thomas Hanitzsch (University of Munich), Rosa Berganza (University Rey Juan Carlos):
   Explaining Journalists’ Trust in Public Institutions Across 20 Countries
   
   
2. Christine Lohmeier (University of Munich), Catalina Barzescu (University of Rotterdam):
   Reporting Anticommunist Protests in Moldova
   
   
3. Matthew A. Carlson (Saint Louis University), Jason Peifer (Ohio State University):
   The Impudence of Being Earnest: Jon Stewart, the Journalistic Community and Boundary Traversal
   
   
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