Digital Journalism

Papers
(The median citation count of Digital Journalism is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism97
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom82
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 Advantage79
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page77
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data75
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing63
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification63
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment55
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies53
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability53
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care49
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search48
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance46
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance44
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology41
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism41
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues40
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities39
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting39
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media37
Normalizing Instagram36
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions35
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment34
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies33
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries32
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter31
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future30
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production30
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World30
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict29
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests29
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists28
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers28
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms28
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future28
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists28
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US27
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes27
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System26
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 Production25
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’25
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India25
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults25
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia25
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication24
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems23
How the Trick is Done – Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism23
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism23
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media23
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?22
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations22
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic22
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram22
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes22
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet21
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism21
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response21
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East21
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom21
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus21
Visual War Journalism20
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces20
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility20
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook20
The Crisis of the Institutional Press20
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations20
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media19
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India19
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance19
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion19
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies18
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy18
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer18
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism18
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok18
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media17
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload17
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism17
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research17
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts17
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences17
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media17
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”17
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines17
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice17
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data17
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures16
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom16
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism16
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders15
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains15
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework15
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here15
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices15
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies15
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment15
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services15
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses14
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future14
Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection14
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions14
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom14
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society14
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies14
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation14
The War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-Checking. A Case-Study at Le Monde13
Less Hype, More Drama: Open-Ended Technological Inevitability in Journalistic Discourses About AI in the US, The Netherlands, and Brazil13
“I Use Social Media as an Escape from All That” Personal Platform Architecture and the Labor of Avoiding News13
News Diversity Under Algorithms: The Effects of Pre-Selected and Self-Selected Personalization on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)13
Nowhere to Feel Safe Anymore Mapping Public and Organisational Violence Against Journalists in Belgium13
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 Countries13
Emotion Sells: Rage Bait vs. Information Bait in Clickbait News Headlines on Social Media13
A Human-Centered Design Approach to Creating Tools to Help Journalists Monitor Digital Political Ads: Insights and Challenges12
Predictive Data Stories: Characterizing a Nascent Data-Journalistic Genre12
Are News Media Biting Hard Enough? Public Watchdog Role Expectations and Performance Evaluations in the Era of Big Tech12
Continuities and Breaks in Digital Journalism and Media Systems12
Journalism & Audience Datafication: How Audience Data Practices Shape Inequity12
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism12
How Disinformation Reshaped the Relationship between Journalism and Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Old and New Perspectives Revisited12
AI Hype Through an African Lens: A Critical Analysis of Language as Symbolic Action in Online News Publications12
Windows to the World: Imagining Flemish News Audiences and Their Views on Society through the Lens of News Repertoires12
Digital (In)Security in Latin America: The Dimensions of Social Media Violence against the Press and Journalists’ Coping Strategies12
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond12
News from the User’s Perspective: With Naivety to Validity11
Collective Social Correction: Addressing Misinformation through Group Practices of Information Verification on WhatsApp11
Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content11
Will Time Matter with Cognitive Load and Retention in Online News Consumption?11
The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War11
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
Women’s Use and Abuse of the News Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mumsnet10
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study10
Defensive Journalism in Bangladesh: Consequences of the Digital Security Act on Journalism Practice10
Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide10
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media10
Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations10
Phases of Going Digital: A Framework for Assessing Newsroom Digitalisation Process10
The Role of Trust and Attitudes toward Democracy in the Dissemination of Disinformation—a Comparative Analysis of Six Democracies10
Correction9
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being9
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media9
ChatGPT, Generative AI, and an Epistemic Opportunity for Journalistic Authority9
AI in the German Media: Narratives of AI-in-Particular and AI-in-General in German Media Reporting About Artificial Intelligence9
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model9
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations9
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments9
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future9
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties9
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production9
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages8
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism8
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands8
Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groups: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations in a Meso-News Space8
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes8
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception8
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills8
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms8
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms8
Nudging Towards Exposure Diversity: Examining the Effects of News Recommender Design on Audiences’ News Exposure Behaviours and Perceptions8
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News8
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study8
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism8
Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism in Intermedia Competition: A Conjoint Analysis of Online News Users in the Austrian Market8
Thinking Hard, Thinking Smart: How News Users’ Cognitive Traits Guide Their Responses to Fact-Checks8
Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War7
From Public Reason to Public Health: Professional Implications of the “Debunking Turn” in the Global Fact-Checking Field7
Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism?7
A Global Perspective on Data Journalism Materiality: Knowledge Production across Public Transparency Infrastructure Environments7
Journalism (Ethics) in the Loop: Software Development as a Cultural Competency for News Organizations7
Putting a Human Face on the Algorithm: Co-Designing Recommender Personae to Democratize News Recommender Systems7
Pricing, Design and Cultivation – Conceptual Tools for the Normative Assessment of Fairness in the Age of Media Platformization7
Explicating Local: An Audience-Based Framing of Local Community and Local News7
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair7
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities7
Resistant and Misinformed: Understanding the Role of Elite Perceptions and Resistance Strategies Against COVID-19 Reporting in Legacy Media in Adopting COVID-19 Misperceptions7
Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism7
Public Knowledge and Expertise Under Authoritarian Siege: A Defense of Academic Freedom from Digital Journalism Studies7
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists7
The European AI Act and How It Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism7
WeChat and the Sharing of News in Networked China7
Resisting the Individualization of Risk: Strategies of Engagement and Caution in Journalists’ Responses to Online Mobs in the United States and Germany7
Alternative Media/Journalism and the Communicative Politics of Contestation7
From Media Systems to Digital Journalisms: An Introduction to the Special Issue7
Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective6
An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria6
A Balance of Uncertainties: Renewing Attention to the Socialized Spaces Shaping Digital Journalism Studies6
“How Trustworthy Is This Research?” Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism6
Alternative Counter-News Use and Fake News Recall During the COVID-19 Crisis6
(Electronic) Mailing the Editor: Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s6
Closing the Cover: Changes Coming to Digital Journalism6
“Worse than the Harassment Itself.” Journalists’ Reactions to Newsroom Social Media Policies6
Collaborative Coding Cultures: How Journalists Use GitHub as a Trading Zone6
Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age6
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook6
People, Power, Platforms and the Business of Journalism6
A Discourse Community of Livebloggers? Routines, Conventions, and the Pursuit of Credibility in Dutch Liveblogs6
Coping with Precarity: Journalists’ Strategies to Find Ease in a Professionally Vulnerable Situation6
Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok6
How People Integrate News into Their Everyday Routines: A Context-Centered Approach to News Habits6
Communicating a Local Journalism Crisis Online: How Media Workers Frame Industry Changes6
Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation6
Hey Google, What is in the News? The Influence of Conversational Agents on Issue Salience6
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