Digital Journalism

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This article by Jennifer Good involves a theoretical discussion of the functions of #socialmedia in destabilising the established temporal characteristics of #war #photography, focusing on war coverage in #Ukraine. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dancing with AI: The Impact of AI-Generated Images and Videos on Chinese Visual Journalism The increasing use of AI for automating visual representation raises concerns about issues such as deepfakes and challenges the long-standing belief of photography as a powerful tool for witnessing...

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Jing Meng and Haiyan Wang explores the use of #AI-generated images and videos by Chinese visual #journalists, examining how they are reshaping visual #journalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism Amid the audience turn in digital journalism studies, one question has been left largely unanswered: What makes for a good news experience? In this paper, we first define news experience as a dynam...

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Emmanuel Maduneme and @sethclewis.bsky.social discusses what makes a good #news experience by introducing and elaborating on Morville’s Honeycomb model from #UX studies and applying it to #journalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments Journalists and experts play a pivotal role in communicating risks and helping the public navigate uncertain futures. This study examines the co-construction of projections by journalists and exper...

This article by Eedan R. Amit-Danhi, Tali Aharoni, Maximilian Overbeck, Christian Baden, and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt examines the co-construction of projections by #journalists and experts during the #Covid-19 pandemic. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
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Nudging News Readers: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding When and How Interface Nudges Affect News Selection Building on research on nudging as well as democratic news recommender design, this preregistered study employed a mixed-methods design to explore how interface nudges and article positioning affec...

This article by Nicolas Mattis, Tim Groot Kormelink, Philipp K. Masur, Judith Moeller, and Wouter van Atteveldt employs a mixed-methods design to explore how interface nudges and article positioning affect #news selection. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes Amid a global decline in the perceived credibility of news organizations, the idea that providing greater transparency into journalistic decision-making may help increase consumer trust has gained ...

This article by Charlotte N. Varnum, Bartosz W. Wojdynski, Matthew T. Binford, and Jeffrey Duncan examines the role #transparency box design plays in both shaping readers’ attention to their contents. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism The last decade has seen consolidation of data journalism—defined broadly as reporting involving the collection, analysis, and presentation of quantitative datasets—as an established subfield of jo...

This article by Aman Abhishek and Lucas Graves examines the role of both quantitative #data and #computational analysis in data-driven reporting. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations A growing number of news organisations have set up guidelines to govern how they use artificial intelligence (AI). This article analyses a set of 52 guidelines, mainly from Western Europe and North...

This article by Kim Björn Becker, @felixsimon.bsky.social and Christopher Crum analyses a set of 52 #guidelines set up by #news organisations mainly from Western Europe and North America on how they use #artificialintelligence (AI).
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Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection As artificial intelligence (AI) has become pervasive in journalistic production, the influence of algorithms on media practices has grown. We must always consider the interdisciplinary character of...

This article by Lasha Kavtaradze examines the emerging phenomenon of automated #factchecking in the context of #information disorder and the growing demand for scalable solutions for information verification. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism? This article makes a case for the value of infrastructure studies in analyzing journalism’s evolving landscape. It argues that infrastructural thinking is valuable to understand the changing neighb...

This article by Mary Lynn Young and @hermida.bsky.social makes a case for the value of #infrastructure studies in analyzing #journalism’s evolving landscape. Available with OPEN ACCESS.
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Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism Journalists and other news content creators are negotiating with participatory platforms and entrepreneurial business models. This conceptual article defines and traces the rise of “newsfluencers”:...

This article by Edward Hurcombe defines and traces the rise of “newsfluencers”, online #influencers who produce #news content for participatory #audiences. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ISSUE ALERT! #DigitalJournalism Vol 13 Issue 9 is out! This issue covers a range of topics, including articles on #news producers and consumers, #AI and #data #journalism, and #factchecking. Access the articles in this thread below. 👇

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This article by Olga Dovbysh & @mariellew.bsky.social examines the intersection of digital innovation and algorithmisation with restricted #media freedom, introducing the concept of #authoritarian algorithmic publics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This article by @atmayer.bsky.social applies the concepts of “public value” and “platformization” to examine funk, a unique content network from #German public service #media that produces content mainly for a young audience. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Ahran Park and Yoonmo Sang explores the complex dynamics between digital platforms and #news publishers in #SouthKorea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally, the newsletter includes a new episode in our series of interviews with first-time authors. We speak with Matías Valderrama Barragán (@mvaldeb.bsky.social) about his co-authored paper “From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism: Analysing Chilean News Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence”

Here are the research articles from Issue 13(9), soon to be released—authored by scholars such as @eddyhurc.bsky.social, @marylynnyoung.bsky.social, @hermida.bsky.social, @lashakavtaradze.bsky.social, @felixsimon.bsky.social, @gravesmatter.bsky.social, @tgrootkormelink.bsky.social, and others.

[THREAD] NEWSLETTER ALERT! Check out our ninth newsletter of 2025, featuring eight new research articles on how digital technologies, platforms, AI, and interface design are reshaping journalism.
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ONLINE FIRST! This article by @nicolestewart.bsky.social, Joseph M. Nicolai and Graeme Beamiss examines how streamers-as-news-providers on #Twitch remix and amplify secondary #news sources for followers, and develops a new “platform #streaming framework”. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Amaka Peace Onebunne looks at #journalists’ views of #AI in Nigerian newsrooms and how geographical and cultural factors influence AI usage, by conducting interviews with 18 #Nigerian journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SUPPORT THIS CAUSE! The deadline for signing our commentary on defending #academic #freedom is this Sunday, 9 Nov! Read this article led by Digital Journalism's Editor-in-Chief @oscarwestlund.bsky.social (bit.ly/4oUu6E0) & sign here (bit.ly/afsignatory) to support this cause!

ONLINE FIRST! In this large-scale study of 14,891 fact-checks, @babettehermans.bsky.social et al. show that fact-checking organizations effectively adapt content to social media, maintaining hard news focus despite platform constraints.
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ONLINE FIRST! Analyzing Singapore’s 2019 anti-fake news law, this study by @shangyuanwu.bsky.social shows how government discourse, transparency, and shared values shape perceived legislative legitimacy.
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ONLINE FIRST! In Greece’s “Watergate” spyware scandal, journalists grew more determined—but democracy grew weaker. Lambrini Papadopoulou’s study reveals how surveillance tests press freedom in Europe.
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ONLINE FIRST! Edina Strikovic & @hannescools.bsky.social find that audiences express deep concern over AI-generated news images. Media users fear misinformation and erosion of shared reality, highlighting the need for transparency and ethical newsroom policies.
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ONLINE FIRST! Shahira Fahmy et al. analyze 405 TikToks from six news outlets during the 2023 Israel–Gaza War, revealing the dominance of elite war narratives and calling on newsrooms to use visual storytelling to foster more empathetic, peace-oriented reporting.
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SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁-𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴", edited by Carolina Fernández Castrillo, Antonio López, @salaverria.es, & Vitor Tomé.

🗓️Deadline: Jan 12, 2026
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ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! What are the side effects of news deserts? Jessica R. Collier finds that communities in U.S. news deserts show varying resilience solutions, with social media partly filling people's information gaps.
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DIGITAL JOURNALISM
VOL 13 ISSUE 8 NEWSLETTER ALERT!

This newsletter highlights eight new articles about misinformation, verification, and fact-checking. It also includes a new CFP on #environmentaljournalism and fact-checking.

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