Paying close attention to news users has become fully integrated in professional journalism.
Even though this practice may still meet with resistance, becoming more audience …

News recommender systems (NRS) are becoming a ubiquitous part of the digital media
landscape. Particularly in the realm of political news, the adoption of NRS can significantly …

In public communication, in the absence of a clear sense of one's actual audience, a
communicator relies on a mental image of an imagined audience. But where does one's …

This study examines the growing journalistic practice of embedding full tweets in online
political news coverage. Against the background of a hybrid media system, we pursue three …

The article aims to capture the diversity of emerging practices in fact-checking by exploring,
on the one side, journalists' self-perception of the watchdog role they believe to perform and …

This article proposes a conceptual framework for the concept audience agency, which plays
a vital role in the current audience turn in journalism (research). It presents two types of …

In order to reach its audiences, journalism regularly turns to social media to promote its
articles. This study sets out to ascertain competing communicative logics of Facebook posts …

Social media metrics allow media outlets to get a granular, real-time understanding of
audience preferences, and may therefore be used to decide what content to prioritize in the …

Scholars repeatedly argue that 'audience engagement'as a concept and, consequently as a
practice, remain inconsistent and ambiguous. Such conceptual inconsistency is in tension …

What explains news sharing in polarized social media environments? Will polarization of the
audiences further polarize news organizations? In this article, we connect existing theories …