1st Edition
Journalism and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Introduction: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of (Digital) Journalism
Thorsten Quandt and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
1. Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory
Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington
2. An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria
Olga Eisele, Olga Litvyak, Verena K. Brändle, Paul Balluff, Andreas Fischeneder, Catherine Sotirakou, Pamina Syed Ali and Hajo G. Boomgaarden
3. Is Sensationalist Disinformation More Effective? Three Facilitating Factors at the National, Individual, and Situational Level
Anna Staender, Edda Humprecht, Frank Esser, Sophie Morosoli and Peter Van Aelst
4. Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep
Stephen Jukes, Karen Fowler-Watt and Gavin Rees
5. Digital News Readership and Subscription in the United States during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Analysis of Clickstream and Subscription Data from a Local News Site
Su Jung Kim, Xiaohan Wang and Edward C. Malthouse
6. “Crisis Coverage Gap”: The Divide between Public Interest and Local News’ Facebook Posts about COVID-19 in the United States
Gina M. Masullo, Jay Jennings and Natalie Jomini Stroud
7. Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mphathisi Ndlovu and Makhosi Nkanyiso Sibanda
8. Press Freedom during Covid-19: The Digital Discourses of the International Press Institute, Reporters Sans Frontières, and the Committee to Protect Journalists
Lindsay Palmer
9. Women’s Use and Abuse of the News Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mumsnet
Sarah Pedersen and Simon Burnett
10. Refracting the Pandemic: A Field Theory Approach to Chinese Journalists’ Sourcing Options in the Age of COVID-19
Shuling Zhang and Qiong Wang
11. Change and Continuity in Digital Journalism: The Covid-19 Pandemic as Situational Context for Broader Arguments about the Field
Folker Hanusch
Biography
Thorsten Quandt is Professor of Communication Studies and Dean, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of Münster, Germany. He (co)published more than 200 scientific articles and several books. Quandt is a Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA). His research and teaching fields include online communication, media innovation research, digital games and journalism.
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture and serves as University Dean of Research Environment and Culture. Her research focuses on journalism and citizenship, and she has authored or edited ten books. Recent books include Emotions, Media and Politics (2019), Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (2019, with Arne Hintz and Lina Dencik), and Handbook of Journalism Studies, 2nd edition (2020, Routledge, co-edited with Thomas Hanitzsch).
