Articles

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Exploring the Political-Economic Factors Of Participatory Journalism (with Marina Vujnovic and Steve Paulussen), Journalism Practice (2010)

This comparative study of user-generated content (UGC) in 10 Western democracies examines the political economic...

 

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Quality Control, Journalism Practice (2010)

This study of local British newspaper journalists focuses on three aspects of entrenched newsroom culture—news...

 

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Separate Spaces Discourse About the 2007 Scottish Elections on a National Newspaper Web Site, International Journal of Press/Politics (2009)

In May 2007, Scots voted into office a party and a political leader publicly committed...

 

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Convergence and Divergence, Journalism (2009)
 

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Ethnography, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2009)

Many qualitative studies in journalism and mass communication research draw on ethnographic methods that originated...

 

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"Comment is Free, but Facts Are Sacred": User-generated Content and Ethical Constructs at the Guardian (with Ian Ashman), Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2009)

This case study examines how journalists at Britain’s Guardian newspaper and affiliated Web site are...

 

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Role Call: 2008 Campaign And Election Coverage On The Web Sites Of Leading U.S. Newspapers., Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (2009)

This study explores how Web sites affiliated with leading U.S. newspapers covered the 2008 campaign...

 

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Participatory Journalism Practices In The Media And Beyond (with David Domingo, Thorsten Quandt, Ari Heinonen, and Marina Vujnovic), Journalism Practice (2008)

This article is a contribution to the debate on audience participation in online media with...

 

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Publish (and be Popular) or Perish: Value Metrics for Scholarly Work in a Digital Environment, Journalism Studies (2008)

The following essays were presented at an Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication...

 

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Posting for Points: Edublogs in the JMC Curriculum, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (2008)

Despite the spread of blogs in mass media and in academia, little scholarly work has...

 

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Five Ws and an H: Digital Challenges in Newspaper Newsrooms and Boardrooms, International Journal on Media Management (2008)
 

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The Journalist in the Network: A Shifting Rationale for the Gatekeeping Role and the Objectivity Norm, Tripodos (2008)

The move to a networked media environment presents a range of challenges to journalistic routines,...

 

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Shifting Roles, Enduring Values: The Credible Journalist in a Digital Age (with Arthur S. Hayes and Jerry Ceppos), Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2007)

When everyone can be a publisher, what distinguishes the journalist? This article considers contemporary challenges...

 

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Contested Autonomy: Professional and Popular Claims on Journalistic Norms, Journalism Studies (2007)

Commitments to truth and to “transparency,” or public accountability, are two central normative aspects of...

 

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Shifting Roles, Enduring Values: The Credible Journalist in a Digital Age (with Arthur S. Hayes and Jerry Ceppos), Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2007)

When everyone can be a publisher, what distinguishes the journalist? This article considers contemporary challenges...

 

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Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2006)

In their coverage of the 2004 political campaign, editors of Web sites affiliated with major...

 

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The Socially Responsible Existentialist: A Normative Emphasis for Journalists in a New Media Environment, Journalism Studies (2006)

In an open and virtually boundless media environment, old responses to the question of who...

 

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Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms, Journal of Mass Media Ethics (2006)

As media companies test and implement newsroom "convergence," growing numbers of journalists are producing content...

 

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Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age (with Janice Hume), Journalism History (2005)

Reviews the book "Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age," by Michael...

 

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The Political J-Blogger: Normalizing a New Media Form to Fit Old Norms and Practices, Journalism (2005)

This study explores how the increasingly popular blog format, as adopted by journalists affiliated with...

 

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Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, Journalism History (2004)

Reviews the book "Digitizing the News" by Pablo Boczkowski

 

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A Cross-Cultural Look at Serving the Public Interest: American and Israeli Journalists Consider Ethical Scenarios (with Dan Berkowitz and Yehiel Limor), Journalism (2004)

This study explores how the social dimensions of a reporter’s world shape ethical decisions through...

 

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High-Tech Grass Roots: The Professionalization of Local Elections, Perspectives on Politics (2004)

Reviews the 2003 book "High Tech Grass Roots" by J. Cherie Strachan

 

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Strange Bedfellows? The Diffusion of Convergence in Four News Organizations, Journalism Studies (2004)

This study examines newsroom convergence—a combination of technologies, products, staffs and geography among the previously...

 

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More Than Ink-Stained Wretches: The Resocialization of Print Journalists in Converged Newsrooms, Journalism and Mass Communcication Quarterly (2004)

Newsroom experiments with convergence-a sharing of news staffs, technologies, products, and geography-disrupt not just the...

 

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Who Are These Guys? The Online Challenge to the Notion of Journalistic Professionalism, Journalism (2003)

The people who claim membership in a profession and delineate its attributes do so at...

 

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Campaign Contributions: Online Newspaper Coverage of Election 2000, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2003)

Focuses on a study, which examined whether a similar normalization effect can be seen in...

 

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Envisioning the Caucous Community: Online Newspaper Editors Conceptualize Their Political Roles (with Mirerza Gonzalez-Velez), Political Communication (2003)

This article explores how local newspaper editors, as they move online and develop increasingly comprehensive...

 

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Information Trumps Interaction In Local Papers' Online Caucus Coverage, Newspaper Research Journal (2002)

Presents an overview of a study on the impact of editors' view on the political...

 

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Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (2002)

Reviews the book 'Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity & Culture,' by Andrew E. Wood and...

 

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The Metro Wide Web: Changes in Newspaper's Gatekeeping Role Online, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2001)

Examines the print and online versions of selected Colorado newspapers by comparing the content of...

 

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Interface Culture, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (2000)

Reviews the book `Interface Culture' by Steven Johnson

 

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Online Staffers: Superstars or Second-Class Citizens? (with Martha P. Tharp), Newspaper Research Journal (1999)

Online newspaper staffs remain small, with salaries and benefits roughly commensurate with those paid to...

 

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Mediamorphosis: Understanding the New Media, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (1999)

Reviews the book `Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media,' by Roger Fidler.

 

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And That's the Way It Will Be: News and Information in a Digital World, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (1998)

Reviews the book "And That's the Way It Will Be: News and Information in a...

 

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Online Journalists: Foundations for Research into Their Changing Roles, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (1998)

Interactive media have grabbed the attention of communication researchers in the latter half of the...

 

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Still Guarding the Gate? The Newspaper Journalist's Role in an On-Line World, Convergence (1997)

As more and more newspapers begin to deliver stories in electronic forms, journalists are re-examining...

 

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A New Front Line in the Battle for Readers? Online Coverage of the 1996 Election by Denver's Competing Newspapers, Electronic Journal of Communication (1997)

The _Denver Post_ and _Rocky Mountain News_ have been fiercely at war for 100 years....

 

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Changes and Consistencies: Newspaper Journalists Contemplate an Online Future, Newspaper Research Journal (1997)

Explores the attitudes of metro reports and editors in the United States toward changes in...

 

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Attitudes of Professors and Students About New Media Technology (with David Craig), Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (1996)

Focuses on the attitudes of journalism and mass communication college teachers and students on the...

 

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Virtual Anonymity: Online Accountability and the Virtuous Virtual Journalist, Journal of Mass Media Ethics (1996)

Explores the ethical implications of concerns about anonymity and accountability in online communication, through a...

 

Books

Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers (with David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, and Alfred Hermida) (2011)
 

Contributions to Books

Exploring the Political-Economic Factors of Participatory Journalism Views of Online Journalists in Ten Countries (with Vujnovic, Paulussen, Heinonen, Reich, Quant, Hermida, and Domingo), Future of Journalism (2011)
 

Journalism and digital technologies, Changing the news : the forces shaping journalism in uncertain times (2011)
 

Journalism Ethics in a Digital Network, Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics (2011)
 

Norms and the network : journalistic ethics in a shared media space, Journalism ethics : a philosophical approach (2010)
 

Journalism in the Network, The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (2009)
 

User-Generated Content and Journalistic Values (with Ashman), Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives (2009)
 

Citizen Participation in Online News Media (United States section), Journalism Online: Participation or Profession (2008)
 

Convergence and Cross-Platform Journalism (with Thorsten Quandt), Handbook of Journalism Studies (2008)
 

Ethnography of Newsroom Convergence, Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (2008)
 

Journalism Research in the United States of America, Global Journalism Research (2008)
 

Online Journalism, The International Encyclopedia of Communication (2008)
 

Newsroom Convergence- Ready or Not, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism (2003)
 

The Revolutionary, the Traditionalist and the Realist, Beyond the Horizon of Journalism (1997)
 

Presentations

Separation within a Shared Space: Exploring the Political-Economic Factors of Participatory Journalism, Future of Journalism Symposium, University of Central Lancashire (2009)
 

Interactive Ethics: Overlapping Norms of Practitioners and the Public in a Shared Media Space, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2009)
 

Quality Control: Perceptions about User-Generated Content Among Local British Newspaper Journalists, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2009)
 

Roll Call: 2008 Campaign and Election Coverage on the Websites of Leading U.S. Newspapers, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2009)
 

Barbarians at the Gate? Journalism of Shared Space, Institute of Communication Sutdies, University of Leeds (2008)
 

How User Participation is Reshaping Online Journalism Practices (with Paulussen, Domingo, and Quandt), European Communication Research and Education Association (2008)
 

Studying Readers' Participation Channels in Newspapers (with Heinonen, Domingo, and Quandt), European Communication Research and Education Association (2008)
 

Barbarians at the Gate? Journalists Warily Eye UGC, Faculty Research Seminar, University of Sheffield (2008)
 

Norms and the Network: Journalism Ethics in a Shared Media Space, Organization of News Ombudsmen convention (2008)
 

Digital Journalism Ethics, News Research Group, Goldsmith's College, University of London (2008)
 

Participatory Journalism Practices in the Media and Beyond: An International Comparative Study of Initiatives in Online Newspapers (with Domingo, Quandt, Heinonen, and Paulussen), Future of Newspapers Conference (2007)
 

New Media in the Twenty-First Century: The Beginning of a New Ethic (with Ashman and Nel), UK Conference on Ethics and Human Resource Managment (2007)
 

The Ethics of Participatory Journalism, Towards Participatory Journalism Seminar, University of Tampere (2007)
 

Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions, Faculty Development Seminar, University of Central Lancashire (2007)
 

The Political J-Blogger: 'Normalizing' a New Media Form To Fit Old Norms and Practices, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2004)
 

Political and Civic Engagement, Midwest Graduate Communications Conference (2003)
 

Social Dimensions of Journalism Ethics Decisions: An International Comparative Study (with Berkowitz and Limor), International Communication Association (2002)
 

Exploring Social Dimensions of Journalistic Ethics: An International Comparative Study (with Berkowitz and Limor), International Association of Media and Communication Research Media (2001)
 

Envisioning the Caucus Community: Newspapers Consider Their Online Role in the Kickoff to Campaign 2000 (with Gonzalez-Valez), International Communication Association (2000)