Incremental updates to breaking news stories online have become embedded in
newspapers in the 24/7 online era. This article reviews four US metropolitan newspapers …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

The emergence of an increasingly complex variety of digital actors who may be considered
as engaging in journalism has led to a veritable explosion of scholarship on peripheral …

We have promoted a hierarchy of influences model for understanding the complex factors
shaping media—particularly news—content: from the individual to social-system level …

Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is
not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized …

The last five years have seen a global surge in political fact-checking, reporting that
specializes in debunking political misinformation. A growing occupational movement …

This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There
is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news …

As polarized factions in society pull apart from economic dislocation, tribalism, and fear, and
as strident attacks on the press make its survival more precarious, the need for an …

This book was made possible in large part because nongovernmental organization (NGO)
professionals and journalists took time to talk with me about their work, and for that …

Winner, 2023 AEJMC Tankard Book Award The idea that journalism should be independent
is foundational to its contemporary understandings and its role in democracy. But from what …