OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journalism is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The cultural capital you need to work with automated news: Not only “your beautiful piece of work”, but also “patterns that emerge”	66
Breaching BBC impartiality rules: Journalism identity, institutional networks and social media	36
Cross-national civilian reporting of the everydayness of war: Emerging citizen journalism practices in Palestine and Kashmir	35
Who covers what? Analyzing audience perceptions of gender differences in news beat coverage	34
The role of German media and the (European) public sphere: Framing biases of the press using the example of the Italian sovereign debt crisis 2018	30
Encoding polysemy in the news	25
The discursive representation of male sex workers in Thai newspapers	24
Is journalism just a job? Findings on journalists’ career motivation, news efficacy and news avoidance from structural equation modeling in China	22
Alignment and antagonism in flux: A diachronic sentiment analysis of attitudes towards the Chinese mainland in the Hong Kong press	22
Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiences	21
Book Review: Iranian feminism and transnational ethics in media discourse	20
In feature story reporting, curiosity is a personality trait, a motivation, and a skill	20
An analysis on reporting pattern of People’s Daily’s international news coverage: The case of Sino-Japan summit meeting since the normalization of relations between Sino-Japan	18
Data journalism and audience engagement: Introduction to the special issue	17
Pandemic politics and public sphere: A critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 in letters to the editor of leading Odia newspapers	17
Book review: Democracy without journalism? confronting the misinformation society	17
Media and public sphere in Ethiopia: Mediated deliberations in public and commercial television programs	17
How organizational leadership and boundary spanners drive the transformation process of a local news media organization	17
Uncensored journalism in censored times: Challenges of reporting on Azerbaijan	16
Reimagining American public media: A key infrastructure for local journalism	16
What drives selection of online children’s news articles?	16
Co-creating research at The AI, media, and democracy lab: Reflections on the role of academia in collaborations with media partners	15
Where news could not inspire change: TRT World as a party broadcaster	15
Local journalism and its audience	14
Are women journalists in leadership changing work conditions and newsroom culture?	14

Understanding disinformation as narratives in the hybrid media ecosystem: Evidence from the US	14
The role of the press in reproducing the climate action contrarian framings of European think tanks	13
Book review: Philip Seib information at war	13
Book Review: Chinese news discourse review 2022	13
Book Review: News Across Five Continents: Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation	13
Ideological and economic influences on journalistic autonomy and cynicism: A moderating role of digital adaptation of news organizations	13
“SLAPPed” and censored? Legal threats and challenges to press freedom and investigative reporting	12
Book Review: All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists	12
Cross-cultural engagement through translated news: A reception analysis	12
Networked agenda flow between elite U.S. newspapers and Twitter: A case study of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement	12
Producing indefinite drafts of history: Journalists’ roles in historic revisionism in Europe and beyond	12
Threat or menace to media pluralism? A framework to assess alternative conspiracy media in today’s information landscape	11
“My mother is not newsworthy”: Framing missingness in Israel	11
Independent or a political pawn? How recipients perceive influences on journalistic work compared to journalists and what explains their perceptions	11
From adversarialism to antagonism: Challenges to the norms of the broadcast news accountability interview in an age of conflict	11
Uncovering the audience perspective: A qualitative analysis of experiences and evaluations of two immersive journalism productions in the Netherlands	11
Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era	11
Targeting the trades, press associations, and J-schools: Tobacco industry mapping and shaping of metajournalistic discourses	10
Book Review: The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship	10
Black maternal mortality in the media: How journalists cover a deadly racial disparity	10
Challengers in the journalistic field – A study of alternative media and their relations to incumbents, governance units, the state, and each other	10
Unethical but not illegal: Revisiting brown envelope journalism practice in Kuwait	10
Citizen journalism revisited: A case study of Kenya’s kibera news network	10
Cross border solidarity in journalist protection and the American paradox	10
Nominal construction of epistemological positions and power relations in journalistic stance taking: Variation across British and Chinese media discourse in English	10
News you can refuse: If news is important, why aren’t more people willing to pay for it?	10
Book review: Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	10
Radio journalism and podcast news in the Global South	9
“I love my job, but my job is destroying me”. Permacrisis’ toll on journalistic practice and perceptions about journalism in Southern Europe	9
Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria	9
Encoding polysemy in the news	9
Snapping the news: Dynamic gatekeeping in a public service media newsroom reaching young people with news on Snapchat	9
After the revolution: Tunisian journalism students and a news media in transition	8
Who controls ‘the narrative’? journalistic emplotment and political discourse in the networked public sphere	8
Exploring changing news repertoires: Towards a typology	8
Hyperlocal citizen journalism in Hong Kong: Resilience through community newspapers	8
Revisiting citizen journalism scholarship in the Web Era (1994-2023): Past, present, and prospect	8
Is news for men?: Effects of women’s participation in news-making on audience perceptions and behaviors	8
An endless struggle between discourses: How Italian journalists have been claiming their jurisdiction in the digital era	8
Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal	8
Psychological capital and safety in Global North-South cooperation: A field analysis of collaborative investigative journalism across the U.S.-Mexico border	8
Selective appropriation in the BBC news translated into Ukrainian and Russian	7
How journalism adapted the Internet in Germany: Results of six newsroom surveys (1997–2014)	7
Beyond the big city: Rural journalists, role orientations and reimaginations of computational journalism	7
“Remember that?” A temporal perspective on how audiences make sense of the news	7
Shifting the protest paradigm? Legitimizing and humanizing protest coverage lead to more positive attitudes toward protest, mixed results on news credibility	7
“Public pedagogy, autotheory, and Egyptian female podcasters”	7
Corrigendum to “Met expectations, job satisfaction, and intention to leave: The effects of discrepancy between job expectations and experiences on journalists’ intention to leave”	7
The mediated construction of “woke”: Emerging discourses and primary definers in the Flemish press	7
Book review: The currency of truth: Newsmaking and the late-socialist imaginaries of China's digital era	7

The imponderabilia of a stringer’s everyday life in Darjeeling Hills – excerpts from an ethnographer’s field diary	7
Mothers, terrorists, or victims? The framing of Dutch and Belgian women in the Syrian camps and the question of repatriation in news media	7
War, Tool, Race or Building? A comparison of vaccine metaphors between (translated) media and scientific reports in the age of COVID-19	7
The diffusion of immersive journalism as media innovation from media professionals’ perspectives	7
From content to context: A qualitative case study of factors influencing audience perception of the trustworthiness of COVID-19 data visualisations in UK newspaper coverage	6
Reviewer acknowledgements volume 24	6
The dance of shadows: The New York Times and the CIA	6
Transparency and fact-checking in open societies	6
The (r)evolution of transsexuality in the news media: The case of the Spanish digital press (2000-2020)	6
Look me in the eyes: How direct address affects viewers’ experience of parasocial interaction and credibility?	6
New models, same practices? Examining professional values and peace journalism training	6
Bridging theory and practice via education: Insights from the erasmus mundus journalism programme	6
Applying news values theory to liking, commenting and sharing mainstream news articles on Facebook	6
‘They blame the messenger’: Re-examining the critique of journalists reporting on genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica	6
Risky business: How metrics obfuscate journalistic values with traffic volumes in digital news production	6
“A tyranny of technology”: The logic of Instagram in forming the photojournalistic professional persona through performed authenticity	6
Responsible reporting on suicide in Slovenia: Are we there yet?	6
Speaking the language of market segmentation: How newsworkers describe their organization’s target audience	6
Collective deskilling, value displacement and newsroom de-professionalization under autocratization	5
Deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation and authenticity infrastructure responses: Impacts on frontline witnessing, distant witnessing, and civic journalism	5
Data-driven news work culture: Reconciling tensions in epistemic values and practices of news journalism	5
“It’s a jungle”: Precarity, solidarity, and ambiguity in small conflict reporting ecosystems	5
Afterword: Broadcast talk and journalism	5
Straddlers not spiralists: Critical questions for research on fixers, local-foreign news work, and cross-border journalism	5
What feels like news? Young people’s perceptions of news on Instagram	5
Crossing the river Gap: How research and practice can build a better journalism together	5
Solidarity, safety and journalism: Collaboration between Ukrainian and Kosovar journalists in times of war	5
News values in a digital age- Intra-media, inter-media, and extra-media platforms	5
Legitimizing the think-tank turn: The transformation of Chinese media in the digital era	5
“Why I quit journalism:” Former journalists’ advice giving as a way to regain control	5
“Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali	5
Performing the disaster genre? TV journalism, disruptive factors and community challenges in the reporting of the UK Grenfell Tower block fire	5
European news media in the decade of digitalisation: Persisting democratic performance with uneven developments	5
Journalism as a profession of conditional permeability: A case study of boundaries in a participatory online news setting	5
Framing responsibilities for climate change in Chinese and American newspapers: A corpus-assisted discourse study	5
Challenging journalistic objectivity: How journalists of color call for a reckoning	5
Communities of practice in the production and resourcing of fact-checking	5
The structures that shape news consumption: Evidence from the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Boundaries of data journalism in U.S. public radio newsrooms	5
‘You can’t buy a revolution, but you can support a paper fighting for one’: Journalism cooperatives’ organizational traits and journalistic missions	5
Where are the missing girls? Gender inequality, job precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China	5
Exploring “ideological correction” in digital news updates of Portland protests & police violence	5
Significant social movement as a critical event: The impact of journalists’ mutual attention on the differentiation between traditional and alternative media in the field	5
Handling racism in a radio phone-in programme: Telling it like it is	5
Checking verifications during the 2022 Brazilian run-off election: How fact-checking organizations exposed falsehoods and contributed to the accuracy of the public debate	5
Anger and the investigative journalist	5
Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers	5
The effects of transparency cues on news source credibility online: An investigation of ‘opinion labels’	5
Coverage of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in the international press: A perspective on indexing theory	5
Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia	4
The impact of using person-centered language to reference stigmatized groups in news coverage	4
How to tackle the conceptual inconsistency of audience engagement? The introduction of the Dynamic Model of Audience Engagement	4
The dark side of journalism: Understanding the phenomenology of conflicts in the newsroom and the mechanisms intended to solve them	4
Situational effects of journalistic resources on gender imbalances in the coverage of Swiss news media: A longitudinal analysis from 2011 to 2019	4
News media framing of social protests around racial tensions during the Donald Trump presidency	4
Introduction: Why the study of broadcast talk matters for journalism	4
The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19	4
First be safe: Exploring and improving journalists’ skills in digital security	4
Academia and journalism: Two different worlds? How scientific institutions can successfully collaborate with journalistic organizations	4
How fact-checkers delimit their scope of practices and use sources: Comparing professional and partisan practitioners	4
“We always report under pressure”: Professionalism and journalistic identity among regional journalists in a conflict zone	4
Book review: The mediated climate	4
Ethiopian-Israeli women working in mainstream journalism: Linking Ethiopian, black and Israeli identities through news-making	4
Agents of meta: Institutional actors in the journalism space and the innovation of local news	4
Afterword: Cross-border journalism: Issues and questions for research and practice	4
Book review: Grupo Clarín: From Argentine newspaper to Convergent media Conglomerate	4
Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK	4
Do those who listen also speak out? Political and citizen participation of radio newscasts audiences in Mexico	4
Personalisation in Journalism: Ethical insights and blindspots in Finnish legacy media	4
Does the audience welcome an audience-oriented journalism?	4
Stated professional orientation, identity, and technical proficiency of journalists as predictors of the success of journalism crowdfunding campaigns	4
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries	4
Mutual aid for local journalism?: A public media collaborative	4