Outstanding Research in (Digital) Journalism Studies

Part 1: Setting the Context

1. Outstanding research in digital journalism studies
Oscar Westlund and Folker Hanusch

2. Selecting the Bob Franklin Journal Article Award
Tim P. Vos

3. Selecting the Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year
Matt Carlson and Frank Esser

Part 2: Outstanding Articles

4. Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism

Edward Hurcombe

Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2025

5. Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News

Amy Ross Arguedas, Camila Mont’alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2025

The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2025

6. Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety Around the Globe

Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Jyotika Ramaprasad, Nina Springer, Sallie Hughes, Thomas Hanitzsch, Basyouni Hamada, Abit Hoxha and Nina Steindl

Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2024

7. Taking a break from news: A five-nation study of news avoidance in the digital era

Mikko Villi, Tali Aharoni, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Pablo J.Boczkowski, Kaori Hayashi, Eugenia Mitchelstein, Akira Tanaka and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2023
The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2023

8. Examining Diaspora Journalists’ Digital Networks and Role Perceptions: A Case Study of Syrian Post-Conflict Advocacy Journalism

Rana Arafat

Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2022

9. The economics of news and the practice of news production

David Ryfe
The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2022

10. An Emotional Turn in Journalism Studies?

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2021

11. (Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News

Steen Steensen, Raul Ferrer-Conill and Chris Peters

The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2021

12. Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism

Martin Scott, Mel Bunce and Kate Wright
Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2020

13. On the Democratic Role of News Recommenders
Natali Helberger

The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2020

14. How is Participation Practiced by ‘In-betweeners’ of Journalism?

Laura Ahva
The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 201815.

15. Actors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-Media News Work: A matrix and a research agenda

Seth C. Lewis and Oscar Westlund
Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2016

16. Remediation, Intermediation, Transmediation: The cosmopolitan trajectories of convergent journalism

Lilie Chouliaraki
Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article Award 2014

Part 3: Reflections on the Field

17. Awards cultures in journalism studies
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

18. The impact of article awards: A bibliometric benchmarking
Thorsten Quandt and Said Unger

19. Reflections from an award recipient
Rana Arafrat

20. Reflections from an award recipient
Seth C. Lewis and Oscar Westlund

Biography

Oscar Westlund has been the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism since 2018.

Folker Hanusch has been the Editor-in-Chief of Journalism Studies since 2018.