In contemporary journalism, there is a need for better conceptualizing the changing nature of
human actors, nonhuman technological actants, and diverse representations of audiences …

The reliance on untrained reporters with limited or no understanding of journalistic
standards has become increasingly widespread particularly in less democratic …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

This article develops the idea of an “emotional turn” in journalism studies, which has led to
an increasingly nuanced investigation of the role of emotion in the production, texts and …

Spurred by the increasingly central role of audience metrics in the editorial process, a new
set of roles is being introduced in the newsroom primarily focused on navigating audience …

New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience
interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience …

Amid growing difficulties for professionals generally, media workers in particular are
negotiating the increasingly contested boundary space between producers and users in the …

Why has fact-checking spread so quickly within US political journalism? In the first field
experiment conducted among reporters, we varied journalist exposure to messages that …

The rise of sophisticated tools for tracking audiences online has begun to change the way
media producers think about media audiences. This study examines this phenomenon in …

In light of the media industry's growing focus on audience engagement, this article explores
how online and offline forms of engagement unfold within journalism, based on a …