OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journalism Studies is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the Audience Turn in Journalism: From Quality Discourse to Innovation Discourse as Anchoring Practices 1995–2020	94
Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown	74
Competition, Change, and Coordination and Collaboration: Tracing News Executives’ Perceptions About Participation in Media Innovation	37
“Be Less of a Slave to the News”: A Texto-Material Perspective on News Avoidance among Young Adults	36
From “Far Away” to “Shock” to “Fatigue” to “Back to Normal”: How Young People Experienced News During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic	34
Information Flow Within and Across Online Media Platforms: An Agenda-setting Analysis of Rumor Diffusion on News Websites, Weibo, and WeChat in China	33
From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During COVID Lockdown	31
The Liability of Newness: Journalism, Innovation and the Issue of Core Competencies	30
Data Journalism Beyond Technological Determinism	29
The Imagined Audience for News: Where Does a Journalist’s Perception of the Audience Come From?	27
Is the Age of Impartial Journalism Over? The Neutrality Principle and Audience (Dis)trust in Mainstream News	27
Audience Engagement with COVID-19 News: The Impact of Lockdown and Live Coverage, and the Role of Polarization	26
How do Danish Right-wing Alternative Media Position Themselves Against the Mainstream? Advancing the Study of Alternative Media Structure and Content	25
Do Novel Routines Stick After the Pandemic? The Formation of News Habits During COVID-19	25
The Epistemologies of Breaking News	24
Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility	24
Constructive Journalism in the Face of a Crisis: The Effects of Social Media News Updates About COVID-19	23
Coping with Occupational Stress in Journalism: Professional Identities and Advocacy as Resources	22
From “Cool Observer” to “Emotional Participant”: The Practice of Immersive Journalism	22
Why Does Explainability Matter in News Analytic Systems? Proposing Explainable Analytic Journalism	22
Why National Media Systems Matter: A Longitudinal Analysis of How UK Left-Wing and Right-Wing Alternative Media Critique Mainstream Media (2015–2018)	21
Fact-Checking Misinformation: Eight Notes on Consensus Reality	20
What’s Positive in a Pandemic? Journalism Professionals’ Perspectives on Constructive Approaches to COVID-19 News Reporting	20
What Does Fake Look Like? A Review of the Literature on Intentional Deception in the News and on Social Media	19
Checking PolitiFact’s Fact-Checks	19

Transitioning to Solutions Journalism: One Newsroom's Shift to Solutions-focused Reporting	19
Recommended for You: How Newspapers Normalise Algorithmic News Recommendation to Fit Their Gatekeeping Role	19
Belgian Journalists in Lockdown: Survey on Employment and Working Conditions and Representations of Their Role	19
De-Westernizing Media Parallelism: How Editorial Interests Unfold During Impeachment Crises	19
From Global Doom to Sustainable Solutions: International News Magazines’ Multimodal Framing of our Future with Climate Change	18
Following and Avoiding Fear-Inducing News Topics: Fear Intensity, Perceived News Topic Importance, Self-Efficacy, and News Overload	18
Computer-Based Analysis of News Values: A Case Study on National Day Reporting	17
Media Management During COVID-19: Behavior of Swedish Media Leaders in Times of Crisis	17
News Media Credibility Ratings and Perceptions of Online Fake News Exposure in Five Countries	17
Tuning Out the News. A Cross-Media Perspective on News Avoidance Practices of Young News Users in Flanders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Pride and Anxiety: British Journalists’ Emotional Labour in the Covid-19 Pandemic	17
The “Audience Logic” in Digital Journalism: An Exploration of Shifting News Logics Across Media Types and Time	16
“It’s a Battle You Are Never Going to Win”: Perspectives from Journalists in Four Countries on How Digital Media Platforms Undermine Trust in News	16
Keeping Up with the Technologies: Distressed Journalistic Labor in the Pursuit of “Shiny” Technologies	16
Popularity-driven Metrics: Audience Analytics and Shifting Opinion Power to Digital Platforms	16
The Monitored Watchdogs: Journalists’ Surveillance and its Repercussions for their Professional and Personal Lives in Pakistan	16
Place, Power and the Pandemic: The Disrupted Material Settings of Television News Making During Covid-19 in an Indonesian Broadcaster	16
Remodeling the Hierarchy: An Organization-Centric Model of Influence for Media Sociology Research	15
Reimagining Local Journalism: A Community-centered Intervention	14
Media in a Time of Crisis: Newspaper Coverage of Covid-19 in East Asia	14
When Motivations Meet Affordances: News Consumption onTelegram	14
Exploring Agenda Diversity in European Public Service Media Sports Desks: A Comparative Study of Underrepresented Disciplines, Sportswomen and Disabled Athletes’ Coverage on Twitter	14
The Rise of the Brazilian Fact-checking Movement: Between Economic Sustainability and Editorial Independence	14
What is Sports Journalism? How COVID-19 Accelerated a Redefining of U.S. Sports Reporting	14
Journalism and Emotional Work	13
Examining Assumptions Around How News Avoidance Gets Defined: The Importance of Overall News Consumption, Intention, and Structural Inequalities	13
The Potentials and Pitfalls of Interactional Speculations by Journalists and Experts in the Media: The Case of Covid-19	13
Reconsidering Innovation: Situating and Evaluating Change in Journalism	13
The Hierarchy of News Values – A Corpus-Based Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison of News Reporting on Epidemics	13
How News Websites Refer to Twitter: A Content Analysis of Twitter Sources in Journalism	12
“The Boundaries are Blurry…”: How Comment Moderators in Germany See and Respond to Hate Comments	12
Journalism Beyond the Command Post: Local Journalists as Strategic Citizen Stakeholders in Natural Disaster Recovery	12
Politicization of Science Journalism: How Russian Journalists Covered the Covid-19 Pandemic	12
From Boundary to Bridge and Beyond: The Path to Professionalization of Product Roles in Journalism	12
Journalistic YouTubers and Their Role Orientations, Strategies, and Professionalization Tendencies	12
Frequencies, Drivers, and Solutions to News Non-Attendance: Investigating Differences Between Low News Usage and News (Topic) Avoidance with Conversational Agents	12
Exploring Audience Perceptions of, and Preferences for, Online News Videos	12
From The Daily Show to Last Week Tonight: A Quantitative Analysis of Discursive Integration in Satirical Television News	12
Audience as Journalistic Boundary Worker: The Rhetorical Use of Comments to Critique Media Practice, Assert Legitimacy and Claim Authority	12
Joy is a News Value	12
Fact-Checking as Mobilization and Counter-Mobilization: The Case of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong	12
Transnational Journalism Networks “From Below”. Cross-Border Journalistic Collaboration in Individualized Newswork	11
Transformational Leadership and Innovation in Digital-Only News Outlets. Analysis of Quartz and El Confidencial	11
Framing the Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy: A Quantitative Content Analysis of News Stories and Visuals in US News Websites	11
In an Open Relationship: Platformization of Relations Between News Practitioners and Their Audiences	11
Between Journalist Authorship and User Agency: Exploring the Concept of Objectivity in VR Journalism	11
Political Journalism and Democracy: How Journalists Reflect Political Viewpoint Diversity in Their Reporting	11
Transparency in the News: The Impact of Self-Disclosure and Process Disclosure on the Perceived Credibility of the Journalist, the Story, and the Organization	11
Journalism as an Affective Institution. Emotional Labor and the Discourse on Fraud at Der Spiegel	11
WINDOW, WATCHDOG, INSPECTOR: The Eclecticism of Journalistic Roles During the COVID-19 Lockdown	11

The Community Caretaker Role: How Weekly Newspapers Shielded Their Communities While Covering the Mississippi ICE Raids	11
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims	11
Jokers or Journalists? A Study of Satirists’ Motivations, Role Orientations, and Understanding of Satire	10
What’s (The) News? Reassessing “News Values” as a Concept and Methodology in the Digital Age	10
Reimagining Journalistic Roles: How Student Journalists Are Taking On the U.S. News Desert Crisis	10
Assessing News Content Diversity in Flanders: An Empirical Study at DPG Media	10
Credibility and Enjoyment through Data? Effects of Statistical Information and Data Visualizations on Message Credibility and Reading Experience	10
Inside or out? Perceptions of how Differing Types of Comment Moderation Impact Practice	10
Journalistic Passion as Commodity: A Managerial Perspective	10
The Economics of News and the Practice of News Production	9
“To Me, There’s Always a Bias”: Understanding the Public’s Folk Theories About Journalism	9
De-colonizing Global News-flows: A Historical Perspective	9
“We Aren’t Fake News”: The Information Politics of the 2018 #FreePress Editorial Campaign	9
Judging Photojournalism: The Metajournalistic Discourse of Judges at the Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year Contests	9
“The Girls at the Desk”: Timeless Blokishness in the Newsroom Culture in the British Press?	9
Is Digital News Really that Digital? An Analysis of How Online News Sites in the UK use Digital Affordances to Enhance Their Reporting	9
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News: A Regional Qualitative Case Study	9
Covering COVID: Changes in Work Routines and Journalists’ Well-being in Singapore	9
How Investigative Journalists Around the World Adopt Innovative Digital Practices	9
Tired, Hungry, and on Deadline: Affect and Emotion in the Practice of Conflict Journalism	9
Press Freedom and the Global Economy: The Cost of Slipping Backwards	9
Examining Diaspora Journalists’ Digital Networks and Role Perceptions: A Case Study of Syrian Post-Conflict Advocacy Journalism	8
Trust and the Media: Arguments for the (Irr)elevance of a Concept	8
(Mis)understanding the Coronavirus and How it Was Handled in the UK: An Analysis of Public Knowledge and the Information Environment	8
German Political Journalists and the Normalization of Twitter	8
Recoding Journalism: Establishing Normative Dimensions for a Twenty-First Century News Media	8
Does Fatigue from Ongoing News Issues Harm News Media? Assessing Reciprocal Relationships Between Audience Issue Fatigue and News Media Evaluations	8
Using Panel Data to Study Political Interest, News Media Trust, and News Media use in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Asian Newsrooms in Transition: A Study of Data Journalism Forms and Functions in Singapore’s State-Mediated Press System	8
Maintaining a Freelance Career: How Journalists Generate and Evaluate Freelance Work	8
Trust and Journalistic Transparency Online	8
In Search of the Global South: Assessing Attitudes of Latin American Journalists to Artificial Intelligence in Journalism	8
Negotiating Boundaries in a Changing Media Ecosystem: The Case of Swedish Cultural Journalism	7
When Everyone’s a Critic: How U.S. Arts and Culture Critics Strategize to Maintain Their Cultural Authority	7
Impartiality on Platforms: The Politics of BBC Journalists’ Twitter Networks	7
Blurred Boundaries of Journalism to Guarantee Safety: Approaches of Resistance and Resilience for Investigative Journalism in Latin America	7
Laboring in Journalism’s Crowded, Precarious Entryway: Perceptions of Journalism Interns	7
#DefendPressFreedom: Paradigm Repair, Role Perceptions and Filipino Journalists’ Counterstrategies to Anti-Media Populism and Delegitimizing Threats	7
Trust and Fear in the Newsroom: How Emotions Drive the Exchange of Innovative Ideas	7
Advocating for Minority Inclusion: How German Journalists Conceive and Enact Their Roles When Reporting on Antisemitism	7
Fake News in Metajournalistic Discourse	7
Individual Evaluation vs Fact-checking in the Recognition and Willingness to Share Fake News About Covid-19 via Whatsapp	7
Sharing Native Advertising on Twitter: Content Analyses Examining Disclosure Practices and Their Inoculating Influence	7
Improvisation and Entrepreneurial Journalism: Reimagining Innovation	7
Promoted Media Coverage of Court Decisions: Media Gatekeeping of Court Press Releases and the Role of News Values	7
Frames and Journalistic Roles in Chinese Reporting on HIV: Insights from a Content Analysis and Interviews Focused on Verbal and Visual Modalities*	7
“Listening Literacies” as Keys to Rebuilding Trust in Journalism: A Typology for a Changing News Audience	7
Professional Ideals of Data Journalists Around the Globe: Congruencies and Divergences Between Role Conceptions and Narrated Role Performances	7