This article makes a case for the value of infrastructure studies in analyzing journalism’s evolving landscape. It argues that infrastructural thinking is valuable to understand the changing neighb...

This special issue marks a growing complexity and complicatedness in research on the business of digital journalism. This shift is appropriate and reflects a necessary deepening and increased rigor...

This cross-lingual project examines how social media posts of Spanish- and English-language media impact incivility in user comments during the 2020 primary political debates in the United States. ...

With the decline of advertising revenue, the newspaper industry faces the challenge of increasing audience-supported revenue. While news organizations must provide quality journalism to their reade...

This study utilizes both systems theory and Schein’s theory of organizational culture to understand how newsrooms can best mitigate forces negatively impacting the mental health of journalists. Thr...

This paper explores audiences’ hateful responses towards journalists and the media in news stories about migrants and LGBT-related topics in three of the most popular national news outlets’ Faceboo...

News consumption patterns have evolved as people increasingly get news through social media. A by-product of this change has been the rise of “clickbaits”—a form of journalism that utilizes sensati...

In the first year of the war in Ukraine, several photographs were made that gave editors pause when making decisions about their publication. Photographs depicting bodies or severe injury challenge...

Coding, at its core, is an act of problem solving. Following this adoption and adaptation of journalistic code, the recent computational turn within newsrooms raises new questions about how and to ...

In this commentary piece, we discuss the imperative of understanding the role of code as a central, yet often opaque, part of journalism. From the foundational SQL and HTML to advanced AI models li...

Journalists and other news content creators are negotiating with participatory platforms and entrepreneurial business models. This conceptual article defines and traces the rise of “newsfluencers”:...

This study investigates how young adults in Denmark authenticate news they come across on social media. Based on data from 300 entries of news diaries and interviews with 20 participants, we found ...

As news organizations continue to adapt to the digital economy, they must integrate technological solutions aligned with journalistic ethics and values. Too often, the uncritical adoption of digita...

A special issue that makes us think deeply about the epistemology of digital journalism was always going to attract the attention of journalism researchers. This one is uniquely poised to make a ti...

Code studies have traditionally focused on how algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) systems are used in news organizations leading in their adoption of AI, based often in North America and W...

With the proliferation of fake news and misinformation, fact-checking journalism is booming worldwide. However, whether its corrective effect is still valid and generalizable in daily news consumpt...

Amid a global decline in the perceived credibility of news organizations, the idea that providing greater transparency into journalistic decision-making may help increase consumer trust has gained ...

Revelations from the 2021 “Pegasus Project” investigation into the use of spyware have confirmed long-held concerns about the proliferation of the technology as a surveillance solution to monitor t...

News organisations are growing increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures for the distribution of news, AI implementation, and management of data. In this article, we argue that this depende...

Epistemologies of journalism differ across genres, and fact-checking, as an independent operation or feature within existing news media organizations, can be considered a genre of journalism with i...

The messengerization of society and the rise of meso-communication spaces have created new opportunity structures for spreading misinformation. Countermeasures in this context must meet other priva...

What journalists believe about the growing phenomenon of news avoidance will affect the way they address it. In this paper we use an iterative, mixed-methods approach to analyze responses to an ope...

Building on research on nudging as well as democratic news recommender design, this preregistered study employed a mixed-methods design to explore how interface nudges and article positioning affec...

Many journalists regularly experience harassment in their daily work. Audiences in Western democracies have become increasingly aggressive in their communication due to the spread of anti-press sen...

Journalists serving rural communities are crucial sources of information across the U.S.; they also face challenges and opportunities unlike those of their peers at large urban outlets. In this stu...

The concept of meso news-spaces refers to online spaces located between the private and public realms, where everyday users, more professional media actors, or both, can produce and share news-rela...

The last decade has seen consolidation of data journalism—defined broadly as reporting involving the collection, analysis, and presentation of quantitative datasets—as an established subfield of jo...

Social media has faced criticism for promoting misinformation. The role of alternative media in spreading misinformation, however, remains uncertain. We examined 1661 Facebook posts from 25 most po...

As the use of “big data” in journalism has become an increasing practice in recent years, its exercise is no longer limited to newsrooms in Europe and North America. The prevalence of coding cultur...

This study builds on efforts to understand what alternative media are becoming by examining differences in epistemology among them and as compared with mainstream media. We find that alternative me...

Digital journalism scholars highlighted a gap in scholarly knowledge concerning data journalism in the Global South, emphasizing the importance of data literacy in newsrooms. This article investiga...

This paper looks closely at the civil unrest in Iran sparked in 2022 by the murder of Mahsa Amini which visual documentation is flooded with imagery of violence and counter-violence. Through closel...

In 2020, as many Black people around the world fought both anti-Black racism and COVID-19, the Black press in the US was dealing with another widespread problem: an infodemic. Editors of Black digi...

The use of AI-enabled text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, raises profound questions about the purpose, meaning, and value of images generally, and the production, editing, and ...

In response to skepticism and criticisms of bias, fact-checkers attempt to be transparent in their work, a practice adopted from their journalistic roots. This study identifies the acts of disclosu...

As the journalism industry descends further into economic collapse, precarity has become an increasingly useful concept in studies of newswork. While a growing body of literature has begun to consi...

Despite Twitch’s dominant position in Western livestreaming markets, institutional journalists rarely produce content on the platform. This paper investigates how journalistic practices, cultures, ...

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is amongst the most polarizing topics today, particularly when comparing predominant U.S. and Arab perspectives. News media are often criticized for being pro-Israe...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to a flood of disinformation circulating online, making fact-checking and verification crucial for journalists covering the conflict. Based on f...

As local news organizations struggle to adapt to new economic realities while suffering structural disadvantages in an engagement-driven online media environment, there is a critical need for empir...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in news writing are ushering in significant changes in journalism. This study examined how the nature of a story’s author (human or news bot journalist) aff...

News verification has been an important practice to combat fake news, but relatively little work has explored the antecedents and outcomes of news verification outside of experimental settings. Thi...

While the theoretical framework of curated flows provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the social media environment, it overlooks the interactions between curators and the mechanisms pert...

The benefits of analytics on news media organisations’ revenues and traffic have been well documented, yet their consequences for news production and content remain double edged. To date, most empi...

In recent years, we have enjoyed a flourishing of studies, books, and articles on comparative research on “legacy” journalism. Fewer have been the attempts to study in a comparative way how digital...

This article explores the epistemic practices and doxa of data workers in a news organisation in Denmark that is currently developing and experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI)-driven reco...

Alternative media users have long been an empirical and theoretical blind spot. This study addresses this gap by exploring the affective dimensions of alternative media use in the context of post-t...

This study investigates the integration of Ubuntu philosophy into AI-driven journalism practices in Subs-Saharan Africa. With a particular focus on its challenges, opportunities, and implications f...

This study analyzes the discourse of reporters, editors and audiences in focus groups and in-depth interviews, examining the expectations on journalists when facing misinformation. While both group...

This article interrogates the level of appreciation of the informational ecology that informs today’s news production. Through a scoping review of literature on media production in global conflict ...

Published in Digital Journalism (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2024)

This article examines how digital diasporic journalism changes epistemic practices in the Cuban context. The last decade has seen a practical transnationalization of digitally native independent ne...

Forensic Architecture, a civilian-led open source investigative agency, synthesizes the disciplines of investigative journalism, fine art, legal studies, and forensics to redefine witnessing, testi...

Amid growing concerns about the proliferation and belief in false or misleading information, the study addresses the need for automated detection in the public domain. It revisits and replicates sc...

Amid increasing threats and assaults against journalists across the globe, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in northwest Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalis...

This study seeks to address two research needs in journalism studies. First, there is a need for research that situates political reporters’ social media engagement as part of a broader investigati...

Despite the common perception that everything on the internet will remain there forever, certain news elements consistently disappear. This leads to the loss of essential contextual aspects crucial...

The success stories of digitalised newsrooms mostly depict outstanding news organisations with abundant resources. However, newsrooms with limited resources (e.g., local newspapers, media organisat...

News recommender systems (NRS), the algorithmic automation and personalization of news recommendations, may benefit both media producers and users. Yet, they raise concerns about the quality, diver...

Journalism often gets described as a profession of precarity. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on the topic, since the question remains open, how many journalists actually work und...