Digital Journalism

Papers
(The TQCC of Digital Journalism is 12. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion98
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing86
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency80
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media71
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance63
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study61
Correction60
Correction59
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being59
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism56
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data54
Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods53
AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press50
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search43
The Crisis of the Institutional Press43
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability42
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care39
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory38
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 Advantage38
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism38
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification37
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media35
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms34
What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism33
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands33
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model33
From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?32
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages31
A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome30
Networked Flak in CNN and Fox News Memes on Instagram29
Information Competition in Disruptive Media Markets: Investigating Competition and User Selection on Google29
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice29
Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-1929
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces29
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility27
Visuality as an Affordance on Instagram News Production27
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media25
The Corrective Effect of Fact-Checking and Hostile Media Perceptions: A Three-Way Interaction Model between Social Media News Usage and Political Misperceptions25
To Nudge or Not to Nudge: News Recommendation as a Tool to Achieve Online Media Pluralism25
The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece24
Fake News: Audience Perceptions and Concerted Coping Strategies24
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism24
We Were Innovators, but We Gave up: The Muted Digital Transition of Local Newspapers24
“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists23
Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in “Fake” News Websites23
Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate23
The Entanglements between Data Journalism, Collaboration and Business Models: A Systematic Literature Review23
Resource Exchanges Between Mobile News Apps and Third-Parties23
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets23
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance22
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism22
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments22
Visual War Journalism22
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment22
The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News22
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India21
From the Fringes to the Core – An Analysis of Right-Wing Populists’ Linking Practices in Seven EU Parliaments and Switzerland21
Journalism and the Global South: Shaping Journalistic Practices and Identity Post “Arab Spring”20
The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Visibility: An Analysis of the Platform-Facing Markup Used by U.S.-Based Digital News Organizations20
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy19
“It’s Trauma on a Deadline”: Change, Continuity and Harm After the “Racial Reckoning”19
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism19
Debunking False Information: Investigating Journalists’ Fact-Checking Skills19
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom19
Political Alternative Media as a Democratic Challenge19
Between Personal and Public Interest: How Algorithmic News Recommendation Reconciles with Journalism as an Ideology19
AI ≥ Journalism: How the Chinese Copyright Law Protects Tech Giants’ AI Innovations and Disrupts the Journalistic Institution19
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News19
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies18
10 Years of Digital Journalism (Studies): The Past, the Present, the Future18
Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research18
The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity18
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*18
The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy18
The Effect of Deepfake Video on News Credibility and Corrective Influence of Cost-Based Knowledge about Deepfakes18
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology17
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era17
How Propaganda Works in the Digital Era: Soft News as a Gateway17
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism16
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism16
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter16
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism16
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News16
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance15
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception15
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page15
In Search for an Audience-Supported Business Model for Local Newspapers: Findings from Clickstream and Subscriber Data15
Joining the Dots: The Literacies of Multimodal Longform Journalism15
The Relevance of Digital News: Themes, Scales and Temporalities15
“Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News14
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts14
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media14
News “Attraction” and Digital Inequalities: Incidental News Exposure and the Equalization or Stratification of Political Information14
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology14
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice14
Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News14
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer14
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities14
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach14
Coding and Capability-Building in Nonprofit Digital-Native News Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America (LATAM)14
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies13
Can Visuals Facilitate or Detract Attention to Text? Examining the Effects of the Amount and Type of Visuals on Attention to Digital Longforms13
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism13
Go, Robots, Go! the Value and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Local Journalism13
It’s a Dalliance! A Glance to the First Decade of the Digital Reader Revenue Market and How the Google’s and Facebook’s Payments Are Starting to Shape It13
Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism: A Typology for Studying New Actors in the Journalistic Field13
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues13
Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter12
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data12
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media12
Escape Me If You Can: How AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies12
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media12
Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety around the Globe12
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