Digital Journalism

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Johana Kotišová & Dariya Orlova examines the #practices and professional identities of #Ukrainian journalists, investigators and researchers investigating atrocities. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Rasa Jämsen et al. explores how #data becomes embedded in newsroom routines, yet managers use it inconsistently to #evaluate employees and provide feedback. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Kevin C. Mudavadi et al. draws on 94 interviews in Kenya to explore how journalists and peripheral actors negotiate #GenAI use in #journalism. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Ellie Macdonald examines the decline of iconic news #images and the challenges facing visual digital #journalism, drawing on coverage of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Volha Kananovich examines how #open-source investigations gain authority in #journalism through Mediazona’s project documenting Russian military deaths in Ukraine and its international uptake. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Isabella Regan & Imar de Vries explores “disciplinary humility” in #open-source investigations across #journalism and justice. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Qi Zhou & Zongya Li examines how #immersive #journalism shapes audiences’ emotional engagement and perceptions of news objectivity. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This commentary by @sangjung-kim.bsky.social explores where the distinctiveness of #visualjournalism resides in an #AI age when performance can be technologically reproduced, simulated, or circumvented. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This SI introduction by @tjthomson.bsky.social, @ryanjthomas.bsky.social, et al, examines how technological change is reshaping the forms, practices, power relations, and epistemic foundations of visual #journalism. Available with FREE ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Tali Aharoni et al examines how users characterize #news in hybrid #media environments, drawing on eight chat-based focus groups and 162 in-depth interviews. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Rasmus Schmøkel et al examines the dynamics of #news consumption on social media platforms, focusing on how news avoidance motivations interact with algorithms to potentially #polarise news consumption. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Kevin Alexis García et al investigates how digital-native #media adapt their practices, organizational models, and community relationships when operating under the compound constraints characteristic of flawed democracies. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This commentary by @stuartallan123.bsky.social considers what the future portends for #visualjournalism when its guiding norms, conventions and values are being recast in the emerging era of #ArtificialIntelligence. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Ximena Orchard et al examines audience-media relations in the context of protest coverage, testing how dynamics of news media #amplification and contestation in social media compare between legacy and #alternativemedia. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Diego Gómez-Zará et al proposes a workflow that uses LLMs to augment the creation and refinement of #framing #codebooks by combining theoretical frameworks with data-driven exploration. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Katharina Schöppl & Christian Schwarzenegger approaches #alternative #media as emotional comfort zones that offer validation and resonance amid broader conditions of epistemic instability. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Wen Shi & Jinhui Li examines how #recommendation systems organize differential #news visibility on Douyin, one of China’s largest short-video platforms. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Matthew S. Weber & Allie Kosterich examines how #journalism has adapted to #AI and technological shifts through the emergence of new job roles and skills. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Stephen Ssenkaaba examines how mainstream #journalists in Uganda perceive and respond to digital authoritarianism and explores the socioeconomic, legal, and technological factors shaping these perceptions. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Marína Urbánikováa et al proposes the conceptual framework of double adaptation as a sensitizing, process-oriented lens for a more systematic understanding of how #journalists manage boundaries with politicians. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Jinjin Zhou, Jingjun Wang & Ye Wu analyzes a dataset from WeChat accounts to examine trends in #clickbait prevalence, shifts in thematic distribution, intermedia homogenization, and changes in engagement efficacy over time. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Ruth Palmer & Vincent Doyle uses discourse analysis to analyze #folktheories of #journalistic authority that circulated on TikTok in the wake of catastrophic floods in 2024 in Valencia, Spain. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Teresa Weikmann, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers & @claesdevreese.bsky.social used an online experiment to test the effectiveness of #platform interventions to combat #AI-generated #visual #disinformation. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Anton Elias Holt examines the types of content #Facebook users report as “false #news” and considers whether user reporting can serve as an effective mechanism for identifying #misinformation. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CALL FOR PAPERS! Check out one of our latest CfPs titled “Epistemic Disorder: #Journalism amid #Democratic Decline and #Media Insecurity”, guest edited by Kristin Skare Orgeret, Bruce Mutsvairo & Gerald Walulya. The deadline is coming up soon – submit your abstract by Sep 1!

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Tian Yang examines the impact of #digital intermediaries like #socialmedia and search engines on #inequalities in #news consumption, or the distribution of news exposure across the population. Available with OPEN ACCESS. bit.ly/4i2Djd9

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @hannescools.bsky.social & colleagues discusses the role of disclosure #transparency in rebuilding #trust in #journalism amid greater integration of #generativeAI tools in #news production. Available with OPEN ACCESS. bit.ly/4goJVBo

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Paul Balluff et al. finds that #alternativemedia display distinctive reporting structures but substantially overlap with #legacymedia in the actors they reference. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This commentary by Max van Drunen et al. argues that new EU rules on #audience #measurement may increase transparency but risk deepening power inequalities between media organizations and platforms. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This study by Lynge Asbjørn Møller draws on interviews in Danish #news organizations and shows that #developers are operationally essential yet remain #peripheral. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This experimental study by Nicolas Mattis et al. finds that disclosing the use of #generative-AI for specific #journalistic tasks generally reduces perceived news #trustworthiness. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Steen Steensen et al. analyzes Norwegian #news outlets across websites, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok; this study finds that platform-specific editorial strategies reduce topic #diversity. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This study by Petra Petruccio et al. finds that #AI-driven automated publishing services (APSs), combined with human editorial oversight, may support #news quality. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This study by Zhengyi Liang & Jaeho Cho explores #bias in #news sources cited in #Wikipedia biographies of US politicians, showing how crowd-editing dynamics can shape political discourse. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Minna Koivula et al. explores how digital #data increasingly shapes #journalists’ daily work, organizational legitimacy, and decision-making. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Kenza Lamot et al., introduces a new way of measuring #news #engagement and finds that journalism becomes “Time Well Spent” when readers also feel moved, fulfilled, and rewarded. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../21...

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Stephanie Geise & Yi Xu finds that #AI-generated war images reproduce the themes of professional #photojournalism but rely on more standardized compositions and stereotypical symbols. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Nisha Sridharan examines how journalists in small, specialised #news organisations use organizational bricolage to build #legitimacy, #resilience, and distinctive identities under conditions of uncertainty. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Huong Ha & Hong Tien Vu shows that sharing #fakenews can trigger embarrassment, shame, guilt, and reduced self-esteem, leading users to reassess the information environment and change their social media #behaviour. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Qi Yin et al. explores how Chinese #media strategically use #datavisualization to balance political and commercial legitimacy. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This study by Alex Zhi-Xiong Koo & Cheryl S. Y. Shea explores how #HongKong's pro-regime #press strategically blends political loyalty with journalistic norms to maintain credibility and legitimacy. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Ross Dahlke et al. examines the consumption of #pinkslime news sites during the 2020 #election in the U.S. and reveals that audiences differ from both local news and misinformation consumers. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....