Digital Journalism

Papers
(The median citation count of Digital Journalism is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data113
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification90
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability84
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care81
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism73
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom68
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*64
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment63
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing62
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search60
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance56
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page54
Digital News Business Models in the Age of Industry 4.0: Digital Brazilian News Players Find in Technology New Ways to Bring Revenue and Competitive Advantage50
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance48
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies47
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities46
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News46
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions43
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach42
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting41
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism39
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media39
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology38
Normalizing Instagram38
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries37
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues37
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests35
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future34
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter34
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict32
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies32
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment31
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World30
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production30
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers30
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US29
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future28
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes28
Using Directional Cues in Immersive Journalism: The Impact on Information Processing, Narrative Transportation, Presence, News Attitudes, and Credibility27
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists27
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms27
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists26
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media26
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework26
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production26
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System26
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults26
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems25
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India25
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’25
Towards Diversity in Global Journalism Studies. A Reply to Seth C. Lewis25
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication24
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis23
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism23
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia23
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet22
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations22
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook22
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes22
How the Trick is Done – Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism22
The Creation of Branded Content Teams in Spanish News Organizations and Their Implications for Structures, Professional Roles and Ethics22
Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility22
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram22
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East21
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?21
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic21
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response20
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces20
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram20
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion20
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations20
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus20
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom20
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism19
The Crisis of the Institutional Press19
Visual War Journalism19
Correction19
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India18
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance18
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility18
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy18
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media18
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts17
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism17
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer17
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok17
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media16
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data16
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies16
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media16
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences16
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload16
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice16
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism15
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research15
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future15
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”15
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom15
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society14
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services14
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here14
Rational-Critical User Discussions: How Argument Strength and the Conditions Set by News Organizations Are Linked to (Reasoned) Disagreement14
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains14
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values14
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment14
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices13
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses13
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders13
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies13
Twitter in the News: An Analysis of Embedded Tweets in Political News Coverage13
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies13
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond13
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework13
News Diversity Under Algorithms: The Effects of Pre-Selected and Self-Selected Personalization on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)13
Dubious News: The Social Processing of Uncertain Facts in Uncertain Times12
Nowhere to Feel Safe Anymore Mapping Public and Organisational Violence Against Journalists in Belgium12
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom12
Journalism & Audience Datafication: How Audience Data Practices Shape Inequity12
Collective Social Correction: Addressing Misinformation through Group Practices of Information Verification on WhatsApp12
Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection12
“I Use Social Media as an Escape from All That” Personal Platform Architecture and the Labor of Avoiding News12
The War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-Checking. A Case-Study at Le Monde12
Windows to the World: Imagining Flemish News Audiences and Their Views on Society through the Lens of News Repertoires12
Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content12
News Engagement on Closed Platforms. Human Factors and Technological Affordances Influencing Exposure to News on WhatsApp12
How Disinformation Reshaped the Relationship between Journalism and Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Old and New Perspectives Revisited12
How Do Funding Models and Organizational Legacy Shape News Organizations’ Social Media Strategies? A Comparison of Public Service and Private Sector News Media in Six Countries12
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies12
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism12
Continuities and Breaks in Digital Journalism and Media Systems12
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation12
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus: Uncovering the Potential Impact of State Influence on the Production of Data-Driven News11
Will Time Matter with Cognitive Load and Retention in Online News Consumption?11
Native Advertising on News Websites: The Impacts of Media Organizational Factors on Disclosure Clarity11
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines11
News from the User’s Perspective: With Naivety to Validity11
Defensive Journalism in Bangladesh: Consequences of the Digital Security Act on Journalism Practice11
A Human-Centered Design Approach to Creating Tools to Help Journalists Monitor Digital Political Ads: Insights and Challenges11
Are News Media Biting Hard Enough? Public Watchdog Role Expectations and Performance Evaluations in the Era of Big Tech11
Phases of Going Digital: A Framework for Assessing Newsroom Digitalisation Process11
A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit11
The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War11
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study11
The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies10
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands10
The Value of Local News in the Digital Realm – Introducing the Integrated Value Creation Model10
Women’s Use and Abuse of the News Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mumsnet10
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future10
Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations10
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide10
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations10
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism9
Correction9
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties9
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments9
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media9
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News9
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages9
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media9
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model9
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being9
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms9
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills9
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data8
Nudging Towards Exposure Diversity: Examining the Effects of News Recommender Design on Audiences’ News Exposure Behaviours and Perceptions8
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production8
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism8
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms8
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space8
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study8
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception8
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities8
Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism?8
Thinking Hard, Thinking Smart: How News Users’ Cognitive Traits Guide Their Responses to Fact-Checks8
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies8
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era8
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes8
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair7
WeChat and the Sharing of News in Networked China7
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists7
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis7
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field7
Putting a Human Face on the Algorithm: Co-Designing Recommender Personae to Democratize News Recommender Systems7
Resisting the Individualization of Risk: Strategies of Engagement and Caution in Journalists’ Responses to Online Mobs in the United States and Germany7
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism7
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook7
A Global Perspective on Data Journalism Materiality: Knowledge Production across Public Transparency Infrastructure Environments7
The Gamification of Digital Journalism: Innovation in Journalistic Storytelling7
Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War7
Explicating Local: An Audience-Based Framing of Local Community and Local News7
From Media Systems to Digital Journalisms: An Introduction to the Special Issue7
Journalism (Ethics) in the Loop: Software Development as a Cultural Competency for News Organizations7
Communicating a Local Journalism Crisis Online: How Media Workers Frame Industry Changes6
Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age6
An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria6
“Worse than the Harassment Itself.” Journalists’ Reactions to Newsroom Social Media Policies6
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis6
Closing the Cover: Changes Coming to Digital Journalism6
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism6
Coping with Precarity: Journalists’ Strategies to Find Ease in a Professionally Vulnerable Situation6
How People Integrate News into Their Everyday Routines: A Context-Centered Approach to News Habits6
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation6
A Balance of Uncertainties: Renewing Attention to the Socialized Spaces Shaping Digital Journalism Studies6
(Electronic) Mailing the Editor: Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s6
Hey Google, What is in the News? The Influence of Conversational Agents on Issue Salience6
People, Power, Platforms and the Business of Journalism6
The Development of Data Journalism in China: Influences, Motivations and Practice6
Journalism beyond the Coup: Emerging Forms of Digital Journalism Practices in Post-Coup Zimbabwe6
“How Trustworthy Is This Research?” Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism6
Native Advertising in the Chinese Press: Implications of State Subsidies for Journalist Professional Self-Identification6
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis5
“A Hard Road With Personal Costs”: How Digital-First Nonprofit News Founders Navigate Precarity5
The Reconfiguration of News Work in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Egyptian Women Journalists’ Feminist Voices in a Shifting Digitalized Journalistic Field5
Who is Responsible for Stopping the Spread of Misinformation? Examining Audience Perceptions of Responsibilities and Responses in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries5
“Scooped by the Town Drunk”: Unpacking the Effects of COVID-19 on Rural Journalism Work5
Sponsored Editorial Content in Digital Journalism: Mapping the Merging of Media and Marketing5
Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective5
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News5
A Discourse Community of Livebloggers? Routines, Conventions, and the Pursuit of Credibility in Dutch Liveblogs5
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism5
If You Have Choices, Why Not Choose (and Share) All of Them? A Multiverse Approach to Understanding News Engagement on Social Media5
How Political Identity and Misinformation Priming Affect Truth Judgments and Sharing Intention of Partisan News5
Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation5
Post-Photojournalism : Post-Truth Challenges and Threats for Visual Reporting in the Russo-Ukrainian War Coverage5
Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok5
Comparing the Empowerment Dynamics of Traditional Media and Social News Sites: The Case of GameStop5
Collaborative Coding Cultures: How Journalists Use GitHub as a Trading Zone5
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism5
Recasting Twitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism5
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