Religie verdient serieuze aandacht in de journalistiek, maar Nederlandse redacties seculariseren snel en lopen achter op de religieuze kennis van de bevolking. Terwijl 43% van de Nederlanders zich religieus noemt en religie wereldwijd groeit, maken journalisten regelmatig vermijdbare fouten, zoals het …

News organisations are in need of creativity to enable their own innovation. Yet “creative autonomy”, the freedom to experiment, to be creative, and to investigate radical possibilities at work, which is conditional to innovation processes, is still under-researched in journalism studies. In this article …

This article provides a detailed case study of “journalistic theater,” focusing on Teatro di Nascosto, an Italy-based international group creating public events in the Middle East and Europe. Employing a reconstruction method, the study explores the production process of The Catwalk (2018, 2019), a series …

This article offers an overview of 94 scientific studies (published between 2006 and 2022) to examine how young people (ages 10–36) define, consume, and evaluate news. Research on news and youth has exploded over the past decades, but what can we conclude from it, and how should journalism scholars move …

The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to different manifestations of news avoidance, and consequently different implications. However, so far less …

Live blogs are a popular format for covering crises, breaking news, politics, or sports events. Despite their popularity among journalists and the public, the format has also been subject to scholarly debate regarding the conflict between immediacy versus credibility, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty …

Over the past decades, journalism schools and journalism training programmes have been trying to keep up with the constant technological and societal developments. Numerous studies have been done about what knowledge and skills should be taught and several on how they should be taught, to be more adaptive …

Deze experimentele studie onderzoekt de effecten van constructieve berichtgeving in nieuws op de emoties en informatieverwerking van jongeren. Resultaten tonen aan dat een constructieve aanpak positieve gevolgen heeft voor de emoties en herinnering van het nieuwsitem van deze jongeren. Constructieve …

This publication presents the results of the first global survey of journalism educators’ views on the future of the profession.

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