OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Snapping the news: Dynamic gatekeeping in a public service media newsroom reaching young people with news on Snapchat	41
Geojournalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing: The case of Eco-Nai+ in Nigeria	39
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	39
The discursive representation of male sex workers in Thai newspapers	36
Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era	34
Legitimizing the think-tank turn: The transformation of Chinese media in the digital era	28
“SLAPPed” and censored? Legal threats and challenges to press freedom and investigative reporting	27
An endless struggle between discourses: How Italian journalists have been claiming their jurisdiction in the digital era	26
Book Review: Chinese news discourse review 2022	24
Producing indefinite drafts of history: Journalists’ roles in historic revisionism in Europe and beyond	24
Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal	24
Anger and the investigative journalist	23
Boundaries of data journalism in U.S. public radio newsrooms	21
Reimagining American public media: A key infrastructure for local journalism	21
In the brand we trust? The moderating role of journalistic values and news topics in the relation between news source and trust in news	21
Coverage of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in the international press: A perspective on indexing theory	19
Pandemic politics and public sphere: A critical discourse analysis of COVID-19 in letters to the editor of leading Odia newspapers	19
Independent or a political pawn? How recipients perceive influences on journalistic work compared to journalists and what explains their perceptions	19
News you can refuse: If news is important, why aren’t more people willing to pay for it?	19
Disinformation and weaponized communication: The spread of ideological hate about the Macedonian name in Greece	18
What fans crave: Including sports audiences in the reporting process through engagement journalism	18
How to tackle the conceptual inconsistency of audience engagement? The introduction of the Dynamic Model of Audience Engagement	18
Towards the individuated journalistic worker in pandemic times: Reflections from Greece and Cyprus	18
Niche climate news sites and the changing context of covering catastrophe	17
“It’s a jungle”: Precarity, solidarity, and ambiguity in small conflict reporting ecosystems	17

Handling racism in a radio phone-in programme: Telling it like it is	16
The impact of using person-centered language to reference stigmatized groups in news coverage	15
Book review: Media analytics understanding media, audiences, and consumers in the 21st century	15
“We always report under pressure”: Professionalism and journalistic identity among regional journalists in a conflict zone	14
Could cutting costs mean changing minds? Effects of local television news work routines on viewer attention, information-processing, and perceptions of story importance	14
The up-down-up pandemic news experience: A mixed-method approach to its negative and positive effects on psychological wellbeing	14
Justifying the news: The role of evidence in daily reporting	14
Surviving digital disruption: Ghanaian newspapers’ response to digitalisation	13
Academia and journalism: Two different worlds? How scientific institutions can successfully collaborate with journalistic organizations	13
The power of primary definers: How journalists assess the pluralism of economic journalism	13
European news media in the decade of digitalisation: Persisting democratic performance with uneven developments	13
Hidden in plain sight- Audience engagement in China’s data journalism	12
An informed audience: The effects of constructive television news on emotions and knowledge	12
(Re)connecting with audiences. An overview of audience-inclusion initiatives in European French-speaking local news media	12
Book review: Our brain and the news: The psychophysiological impact of journalism	12
Reducing misperceptions through news stories with data visualization: The role of readers’ prior knowledge and prior beliefs	12
Different yet complementary: A systematic literature review on data journalism in visualization research and journalism studies	12
Syrians in Turkey and their naturalization as Turkish citizens: A computational text analysis of newspaper data	12
Book review: Researching Creativity in Media Industries	12
The quality of radio journalism in Tanzania: Empowering citizens or at a crossroads?	12
“Why do I have to read this book?” The relationship between knowledge orientation and motivation among journalism and communication students	12
Noticed and appreciated? The role of argument diversity in enhancing news credibility and reader satisfaction	12
Book review: M. A. L.: The Journalism and Writing of Madeline Alberta Linford	12
The struggle for authority and legitimacy: Lifestyle and political journalists’ discursive boundary work	11
Managing and resisting workplace reorganization: Labor-management relations in a pre-digital media corporation	11
Book review: Happiness in journalism	10
Stereotypes in media representations of boy bands and their fans	10
Same threats, different platforms? Female journalists’ experiences of online gender-based violence in selected newsrooms in Namibia	10
Tech trends: Wired ’s treatment of emerging technologies (2021-2023)	10
Book review: Journalism in the grey zone: Pluralism and media capture in Lebanon and Tunisia	10
Rethinking news trust in post-truth Turkey: Immediacy as the imagined affordance of television and search engines	10
The toll of fighting misinformation: Precarity in fact-checking work	10
To foreignize or to domesticate? How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events	10
“The right to voice your opinions”: A historical case study in audience members’ emotional hostility to radio journalists	10
A topic among others—examining the attention dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic through interviews with Finnish journalists	10
Audience understandings of disinformation: navigating news media through a prism of pragmatic scepticism	10
A comparative study of multi-ethnic perspectives on aging in Malaysian newspapers	9
Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand	9
Marketing coup or paradigm shift? Reflections on the Dutch media interpretations of the 2017 ‘Mata Hari: de mythe en het meisje’	9
Information flows from local to national: Evidence from 21 major US cities	9
‘Radio as usual’? Digital technologies and radio in conflict-Affected Burkina Faso	9
Concerns about the role of artificial intelligence in journalism, and media manipulation	9
The uncompromising way: Several lessons from homeless journalists	9
Trends in the interest in COVID-19 news of the local media and their readers: The case of Spain	9
In feminism we trust! On how feminist standpoint epistemologies shape journalism practices in two argentine digital newsrooms	9
Inferential causal explanatory journalism. A science-based bridge between outcome and cause in journalism	9
The datafication of digital journalism: A history of everlasting challenges between ethical issues and regulation	9
Book Review: Wronged: The weaponization of victimhood ChoulirakiLilie, Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. United States: Columbia University Press, 2024, 245 pp. ISBN 9 7802 3155 0239.	8
Taking sides: Translators and journalists in the Spanish civil war	8
“Despite everything, love”: Commemorative journalism and the rereading of the critical rereading of the Israeli past	8

Interlopers by choice, or interlopers by circumstance? Alexei Navalny and alternative journalistic projects in contemporary autocratic Russia	8
Framing the war on Tigray: The case of CNN and Al Jazeera	8
What is news? Mapping the diversity of news experiences in digital trace data	8
On the [translated] record: Journalistic translation and creative agency in India’s multilingual reporting	8
Book review: Anna Islentyeva, A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press	8
Unveiling journalistic resilience: A blueprint for future crises	7
Peer-based research funding as a model for journalism funding	7
Vanishing act: The disappearance of printed newspapers	7
Critique-in-the-loop of news production	7
Who is a good journalist? Evaluations of journalistic worth in the era of social media	7
COVID-19 vaccine strategy, news and political parallelism in Mexico. A comparative analysis of La Jornada and Reforma	7
What does local news use have to do with raising children? Four dimensions of the roles of local news from a study on English parents’ news use	7
Practices of objectivity formation in journalism education	7
Gender in/and the news in the UK and Republic of Ireland: Slow but (un)steady progress?	7
Local news as political institution and the repercussions of ‘news deserts’: A qualitative study of seven UK local areas	7
Beyond verification: Flesh witnessing and the significance of embodiment in conflict news	7
The effects of constructive journalism techniques on mood, comprehension, and trust	7
Social media algorithmic versus professional journalists’ news selection: Effects of gate keeping on traditional and social media news trust	7
Review of 'George Orwell and Russia' by Masha Karp	7
Book Review: Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approach	7
The domestication of data journalism in Palestine: Consumption of data-based news stories via social media	7
Disinformation and the Brussels bubble: EU correspondents’ concerns and competences in a digital age	7
Projection in journalists’ perceptions of public opinion	7
Language perceptions and use among (TV) journalists in multilingual Belgium: how pragmatic realities affect the idealized benchmark of bilingualism	7
‘Thanks for being here with us’: Para-social interaction and the effects of pundit talk on the Hannity and Maddow shows	7
Encoding polysemy in the news	6
Say what you want: Evaluation and engagement with YouTube broadcasts on ChatGPT	6
Viral journalism. Strategy, tactics and limitations of the fast spread of content on social media: Case study of the United Kingdom quality publications	6
What’s a news media brand worth? Investigating the effect of cognitive brand representations on recipients’ quality assessment of news articles	6
Resisting the resistance (journalism): Ben Smith, Ronan Farrow, and delineating boundaries of practice	6
Digital transformation of journalism and media in Serbia: What has gone wrong?	6
“Remember that?” A temporal perspective on how audiences make sense of the news	6
Reviewer acknowledgements volume 24	6
Collective deskilling, value displacement and newsroom de-professionalization under autocratization	6
“Journalists” without a press card- cross-border cooperation of Chinese private news organizations	6
Beyond the haze: Media coverage of smog in Pakistan	6
Blind spots and diversity in a local media landscape	6
The effects of incidental news exposure on social media on Chinese youth: News diversity and online expression	6
Effective leadership in journalism: Field theory in how journalists evaluate newsroom leadership	6
New models, same practices? Examining professional values and peace journalism training	6
“I love my job, but my job is destroying me”. Permacrisis’ toll on journalistic practice and perceptions about journalism in Southern Europe	6
A systematic review of constructive and solutions journalism research	6
Go negative to be on the safe side! A 10-country investigation of the link between journalists’ negative framing and political actors’ strategic communication	6
Parallel spheres: The shifting role of digitally engaged activist journalism after Egypt’s January 25 revolution	6
Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work	6
Examining audience perspectives on local newspaper futures	6
From the political to the personal: Constructing politicians’ biographies in the Nick Robinson podcast ‘Political Thinking’	6
News values in a digital age- Intra-media, inter-media, and extra-media platforms	6
Book review: Philip Seib information at war	6
Book review: Computing the news: Data journalism and the search for objectivity	5
“When can I get angry?” Journalists’ coping strategies and emotional management in hostile situations	5
Disinformation discourse as boundary work in journalism. A comparison between South Africa and France	5
Experiences reporting on mental illness and suicide: Findings from interviews with Australian news professionals	5
Book review: Grupo Clarín: From Argentine newspaper to Convergent media Conglomerate	5
Framing responsibilities for climate change in Chinese and American newspapers: A corpus-assisted discourse study	5
Local journalism and its audience	5
Deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation and authenticity infrastructure responses: Impacts on frontline witnessing, distant witnessing, and civic journalism	5
Contagious accuracy norm violation in political journalism: A cross-national investigation of how news media publish inaccurate political information	5
Afterword: Cross-border journalism: Issues and questions for research and practice	5
The relationship between news trust, mistrust and audience disengagement	5
Has the web promoted diversity? Ownership concentration and online news traffic in Greece	5
Challenging journalistic objectivity: How journalists of color call for a reckoning	5
Incidental encounters, intentional engagements: Dissecting political news consumption on short-form video platforms	5
The role of the press in reproducing the climate action contrarian framings of European think tanks	5
Coverage differences of Vladimir Putin’s image in the media of China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos	5
‘Softballs’ for ‘Hardballs’: The congenial political interview on right-wing partisan TV news outlets	5
Diasporic citizen journalism: Exploring the discussion on the 2022 blank paper protests in the Chinese twitter community	5
Book review: Journalism in the Data Age	5
Book Review: Journalism in the Generation Z Age	5
Selective appropriation in the BBC news translated into Ukrainian and Russian	5
Cross-national civilian reporting of the everydayness of war: Emerging citizen journalism practices in Palestine and Kashmir	5
Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK	5