Sandra Banjac

Are you doing a PhD in Journalism Studies? Would you like to get feedback on your work from experienced scholars in the field? Then join us for the 6th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium in Groningen on April 8th, 2026! Deadline for abstracts is 6 June 2025. For the full CfP, check: edu.nl/nfd7h

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Thrilled – and honored - to be shortlisted for the IJPP Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award. My thanks to the committee, both for shortlisting Journalism in a Fractured World and for placing my book in such great company. www.peterlang.com/document/128... @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

Thanks! And thanks to everyone who joined and to @sggroningen.bsky.social for organizing a great evening. The challenges are not small, but the dialogue helps.
For anyone interested, the book is available here: www.peterlang.com/document/128...
(OA supported by @unigroningen.bsky.social Library)

📢Call for Papers!
This topic couldn’t be more timely! If you research on disinformation, fact-checking, or digital platforms, don’t miss this CfP at «Communication & Society»: "From Fact-Checking to Community Notes".
🗓️Deadline: October 30, 2025
➡️ Details & submission info: unav.edu/documents/29...

Great discussion last night! @seldridge.com talked about his new book and engaged the audience with provocative questions about the role of journalism in a fractured society, followed by a panel w/ @lisares.bsky.social & @sikkom.bsky.social’s Willem Groeneveld, moderated by @joelleswart.bsky.social.

Journalism in a Fractured World What role does journalism play in building a democratic society?

On 8 April I'll give a talk w/ @sggroningen.bsky.social on journalism's role in a fractured world. I will start the evening exploring the challenges posed by digital media actors that amplify existing divisions in democratic societies in the content they produce sggroningen.nl/index.php/nl... (1/3)

It’s been a wonderful week visiting colleagues and guest teaching at MUNI, as well as enjoying great food and wine in South Moravia! Thank you again to @ksmejkal.bsky.social, @lenkawc.bsky.social, Iveta Jansová for hosting us and making this visit perfect. Can’t wait to return to Brno for ECREA2026!

What is the role of journalism in a fractured society? @seldridge.com shared insights from his new book today at Masaryk University. Special thanks to @lenkawc.bsky.social, @ksmejkal.bsky.social and all the lovely colleagues here for hosting us this week in Brno! 💫 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

I am happy to announce that the first two books in the Frontiers in Journalism Studies Series are now out. I have been developing this series with Peter Lang since 2022 as a space for scholars to develop provocative, forward-looking research. www.peterlang.com/series/fijs #PeterLangAuthor

✨ Super exited to see this out and honoured to be a part of it! ✨

What a volume. What a project. So excited to share this Companion with everyone who contributed to it, and everyone in our community of scholars who will benefit from the rich discussions in its pages (1/)

Great to see the new Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies finally out! 🥳 Go check out this collection of work by 70+ fantastic journalism scholars across the globe. A BIG thank you to all who contributed! @unigroningen.bsky.social

Very honored to be on board of this endeavor with a chapter on populism and digital journalism - looking very much forward to reading the whole book!

Happy to have contributed to this impressive lineup and collection of analyses, and hats off to the editors who turned around 88 concise, analytical articles from more than 100 scholars in only 10 days. www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president...

Sander Hölsgens @kuempelanna.bsky.social @luiseante.bsky.social and Marcel Broersma 🙏

David O. Dowling, Kevin C. Mudavadi, Dani Madrid-Morales, Klára Smejkal, Allen Munoriyarwa, Khulekani Ndlovu, Julius Reimer @wiebkeloosen.bsky.social
Esther Greussing @lisamerten.bsky.social
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Wambui Wamunyu...

Tanja Bosch, Amanda Brouwers, Henrik Bødker, Omar Al-Ghazzi @anitawrites.bsky.social Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante, Sheila B. Lalwani @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @richardstupart.com @acadianjprof.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social
@philipdisalvo.bsky.social ...

Lisa Merete Kristensen, Oscar Westlund @memy.bsky.social Sherwin Chua @magdakon.bsky.social Ragnhild Kr. Olsen, Dawn Wheatley, Matthew Powers, Aljosha Karim Schapals,
Bahareh Heravi, Folker Hanusch @kimloehmann.bsky.social Ansgard Heinrich, Pashcalia (Lia) Spyridou, Joyce Y.M. Nip, Ting Su...

Julie Vulpius, Josephine Lehaff, Melissa Tully, @prjohnson.bsky.social Frank Harbers @jlischka.bsky.social Laura Laugwitz @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social @rsalaverria.bsky.social Kenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen @gravesmatter.bsky.social @markstencel.bsky.social Kate Wilkinson, Eddy Borges-Rey, Peter Bro...

Thank you to 🙏 Manfred Antwi Kofi Asuman @bekdale.bsky.social Sergio Splendore, David Ryfe, Kristy Hess, Alison McAdam, Danford Zirugo, Kyle Heim, Johanna Klapproth @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Hanan Badr, Johan Lindell @stuartallan123.bsky.social @peterschris.bsky.social Kim Christian Schrøder...

...capturing the most recent developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition by Bob Franklin and @seldridge.com seven years earlier. We hope the companion will serve students, scholars, and practitioners of digital journalism for many years to come.

Putting together the 2nd Edition of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies would not have been possible without the valuable contributions of our dedicated authors and their diverse expertise and insights...

Wrapping up this comprehensive edited volume, Marcel Broersma and @seldridge.com engage with the two sides of an ongoing debate – whether to center news or users when trying to situate journalism in a digital information ecology.

Finally, digital journalism studies requires novel methodological approaches; here the authors highlight tools for tracing the development of journalisms, experimental research, computational methods, ethnography, arts-based methods, and challenges in researching digital audiences.

In a fragmented world, digital journalism confronts political and ideological challenges; the authors in this section discuss populism across media and audiences, open source investigations and digital surveillance, digital narrative journalism and tabloidization, and political disinformation.

Faced with global and epistemic challenges, in this section scholars outline digital journalism's function in climate change reporting, the role of emotion and affective proximity in covering wars, journalism's moral harms, power, and safety threats affecting journalists and audiences alike.

What do practices look like for journalistic actors in an expanding journalistic field & across global contexts? Here authors explore peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism, storytelling structures, digital sourcing & news practices, and the vital contributions of community radio and podcasting.

Digital journalism is inextricable from our understanding of platforms and the impact these changes have on its business logics; the authors in this section explore digital gatekeeping, business of platforms, grant-funded journalism, paywalls, mobile news and non-profit journalism.

What has technology meant for Digital Journalism Studies? In this section we find scholars conceptualizing journalistic innovation, helping us understand news recommender systems, debating the role of data analytics, examining fact checkers & automated fact-checking, and rethinking data journalism.