2025

1. Daniel Stegmann (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz):
   News that Unites? How News Consumption Patterns Foster Social Cohesion
2. Emmanuel Dadzie (North Dakota State University):
   Evolving Climate Narratives in the Global South: Temporal Trends and Thematic Shifts in Media Coverage of Climate Change in Ghana (2003-2024)
3. Lydia Cheng (University of Sydney):
   The Fall of the Wall: Navigating the Ethics of Closer Editorial-Business Integration in Lifestyle Journalism
4. Xinyue Zhao (University of Central Florida), Chenwei Yang (Robert Morris University):
   Are Looks Paramount? The Impact of AI News Anchor Attributes on Continuous Watching Intention through Parasocial Interaction and Trust

2024

 

1. 1. Xue Zhang (Michigan State University), Qi Zheng (Michigan State University)：
      “Online for You, Offline for Us”: Understanding Political Implications of Transregional News Repertoires During the US-China Tensions

1. 1. Louisa Lincoln (University of Pennsylvania)：
      “A Hard Road with Personal Costs”: How Digital-First Nonprofit News Founders Navigate Precarity

1. 1. Hongyu Zhu (Tsinghua University), Zizhong Zhang (Tsinghua University), Mingjiang Lu (Tsinghua University), Zixin Zhang (Tsinghua University)：
      Consumer, Female, or Gamer? Comparing Western and Chinese Media Frames Regarding Female Gamers

1. 1. Michael Ofori (University of Minnesota)：
      Doing Journalism in Times of Conflict: A Cross-National Examination of News Source Attribution and Framing in Allied Countries’ Media

1. 1. Anna-Theresa Mayer (Weizenbaum Institute):
      Updating Public Value: How Journalists Understand Their Societal Role in a Digital Context

2023

 

1. 1. Jeanna Sybert (University of Pennsylvania)：
      “It Was a Nightmare”: Difficult Memories, Institutional Identity, and Journalists’ Recollections of 9/11

1. 1. Cheryl S. Y. Shea (University of Wisconsin–Madison):
      Translating the Protest Violence: Legitimizing Radicalization in Traditional and Alternative News Media in the Hong Kong Anti-ELAB Movement

1. 1. Tyler W. S. Nagel (University of Groningen):
      Local Journalists as Brokers: A Study of Rural Information Relationships

2022

 

1. 1. Andreas A. Riedl, Christina Krakovsky (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Tobias Rohrbach (University of Fribourg):
      Journalistic Drivers of Women’s Representation in Political News: A Mixed Methods Study

1. 1. Emma Sarah van der Goot (University of Amsterdam):
      Online and Offline Battles: Usage of Different Political Conflict Frames

1. 1. Ying Yu (Renmin University of China):
      Reconciliation of Professional and Political Logics: Chinese Fact-Checking in a Comparative Lens

1. 1. Chun Hong Tse (Chinese University of Hong Kong):
      Institutional Citizen Journalism Outlets as News? News Values Comparison Between Peopo and Public Television Service in Taiwan

2021

 

1. 1. Nick Mathews (University of Minnesota)：
      Weekly Newspapers and the Community Caretaker Role

1. 1. Kenza Lamot (University of Antwerp)：
      What the Metrics Say: Online News Popularity on the Web and Social Media Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets

1. 1. Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard (University of Texas at Austin)：
      Constructive Journalism in the Face of a Crisis: The Effects of Facebook News Updates About the Coronavirus

2020

 

1. 1. Nicholas Mathews (University of Minnesota)：
      Life in a News Desert

1. 1. Sarah Kay Wiley (University of Minnesota)：
      Identity, Autonomy, and Press Freedom in Computational Journalism

1. 1. Muira N. McCammon (University of Pennsylvania):
      Predictive Witnessing: Military Bases and the Politics of Journalistic Access

2019

 

1. 1. Phoebe Maares, Esther Greussing, Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna)：
      Showing Off Your Social Capital: Homophily of Professional Reputation and Gender in Journalistic Networks on Twitter

1. 1. Vaios Papanagnou (London School of Economics)：
      Values and Evaluations: The Distribution of Worth in Journalism

1. 1. Jennifer Henrichsen (University of Pennsylvania)：
      Reconceptualizing Indigenous Journalism Through Information Poverty Theory

2018

 

1. 1. Martin Riedl (University of Texas at Austin)：
      Negotiating Sociomateriality and Commensurability: Human and Algorithmic Editorial Judgment at Social Media Platforms

1. 1. David Cheruiyot, Raul Ferrer Conill (Karlstad University), Stefan Baack (University of Groningen)：
      Fact-Checking and Journalism Discourse: The Perceived Influence of Data-Driven Nonprofits in Africa

1. 1. Aviv Barnoy (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)：
      Verification in the Age of Post-Truth: A Mixed Method Study

2017

 

1. 1. Yigal Godler (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)：
      The Birth of Facts in the News

1. 1. Kirsten Van Camp (University of Antwerp)：
      Issue-Specific Newsworthiness: The Impact of Individual Specialization and Party Issue Ownership on News Coverage of MPs

1. 1. Raul Ferrer Conill (Karlstad University)：
      The Datafication of Newswork: The Use of Metrics and Gamification to Motivate Journalists

2016

 

1. 1. Kathleen Beckers (University of Antwerp)：
      Enlivening Illustration or Public Opinion? An Analysis of Vox Pop Statements in Political Television News

1. 1. Lars Guenther (CREST/Stellenbosch University), Cecilia Rosen (Center for Studies on Science, Development and Higher Education), Klara Froehlich (University of Paris 8)：
      A Question of Newsworthiness: Identifying and Reasoning the Common Selection Criteria of Science Writers from Argentina, France, and Germany

1. 1. Anne Kroon, Toni van der Meer (University of Amsterdam)：
      Who Takes the Lead? Investigating the Dynamic Interplay of Organizational and News Agendas

2015

 

1. 1. Caitlin Petre (New York University)：
      Managing Metrics: The Containment, Disclosure, and Sanctioning of Audience Data at the New York Times

1. 1. Christopher Cimaglio (University of Pennsylvania)：
      “Bullish on Business News”: U.S. Business Journalism in Transition in the 1970s and 1980s

1. 1. Justin Wolfgang, Joy Michelle Jenkins (University of Missouri)：
      Crafting a Community: Staff Members’ Conceptions of Audience at a City Magazine

2014

 

1. 1. Tanja Aitamurto (University of California, Berkeley)：
      Open Investigative Journalism and the Reciprocal Panopticon: Citizens As Watchdogs

1. 1. David Conrad (University of Pennsylvania)：
      The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals about Contemporary Foreign News Production

1. 1. Rodrigo Zamith (University of Minnesota)：
      What is the “Elite Press”? A Network Analysis of High-Circulation Newspapers in the U.S.

2013

 

1. 1. Jayeon Lee, Hyunjin Song (Ohio State University)：
      Why People Post News Through SNS? A Focus on Technology Adoption, Media Bias, and Partisanship Strength

1. 1. Omar Alghazzi (University of Pennsylvania)：
      De-Westernizing New Media Discourse: The Case of Citizen Journalism in the Arab World

1. 1. Wendy Weinhold (Southern Illinois University)：
      Definitional Sources of Journalists in the United States

2012

 

1. 1. Nicolas Gilewicz (University of Pennsylvania)：
      To Embody and to Embalm: Collective Memory in the Final Editions of Closed Newspapers

1. 1. Matthias Revers (University at Albany)：
      Journalistic Autonomy as Cultural Practice

1. 1. Christian von Sikorski (University of Cologne)：
      Issue-Specific News Frames Affecting Recipients’ Attitudes toward Disability
      
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