Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-18DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2742982
Johana Kotišová,Dariya Orlova
{"title":"OSINV vs. Core International Crimes: Practices and Professional Identities of Ukrainian Journalists, Investigators, and Researchers Investigating Atrocities","authors":"Johana Kotišová,Dariya Orlova","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2742982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2742982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"179 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2746375
Kevin C. Mudavadi,Bingbing Zhang,Melissa Tully,Brian Ekdale,Jonas Nyabor,Nur Hossain,Shitemi Khamadi
{"title":"Negotiated Adaptability: How Peripheral Actors’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Shape Journalistic Practice","authors":"Kevin C. Mudavadi,Bingbing Zhang,Melissa Tully,Brian Ekdale,Jonas Nyabor,Nur Hossain,Shitemi Khamadi","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2746375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2746375","url":null,"abstract":"While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming newsroom practices globally, studies often examine journalists and peripheral actors in isolation, overlooking the reciprocal influence these actors exert on journalism. This study addresses this gap by drawing on 94 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with journalists and peripheral actors in Kenya’s urban and rural areas. Specifically, we examine how Kenyan journalists and peripheral actors engage with GenAI, how they believe it should be used in newsrooms, and how their practices and perspectives shape journalistic adaptation. Our findings show that the adoption of and resistance to GenAI by Kenyan journalists illustrate “negotiated adaptability”—a form of technological adaptation in which journalists’ decisions about whether, where, and how to use GenAI are shaped through ongoing negotiations, including with actors located at the periphery of the newsroom ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-13DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2744347
Rasa Jämsen,Ward van Zoonen,Mikko Villi
{"title":"From Institutionalized Data to Inconsistent Practices: The Dynamics of Datafied Employee Evaluation in Journalistic Work","authors":"Rasa Jämsen,Ward van Zoonen,Mikko Villi","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2744347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2744347","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations are increasingly relying on data to evaluate work, yet the role of data in shaping managerial practices remains uneven. The quantitative turn, referred to as datafication, has been an integral part of journalistic organizations for decades, while continuing to raise fundamental challenges for management. This paper examines how datafication is perceived when evaluating and being evaluated through data. Drawing on 25 interviews and 61 open-ended survey responses from a public-service media organization, we show how data becomes institutionalized in everyday work through organizational routines, technologies, and discourses that render data ‘taken-for-granted’. At the same time, its enactment in managerial practices remains uneven. Despite shared access to analytics, managers diverge in how they incorporate data into evaluation and feedback, resulting in inconsistent practices in the same organization. These findings refine research on datafication by demonstrating that institutionalization is selective rather than uniform, and by showing that data-related relational activities within organizations are central to how analytics are interpreted, negotiated, and enacted in practice.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-11DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2744880
Ellie Macdonald
{"title":"Too Much or Not Enough? The Decline of the Iconic News Image and the Adaptive Challenges of Visual Digital Journalism","authors":"Ellie Macdonald","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2744880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2744880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"167 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-10DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2744877
Volha Kananovich
{"title":"From Grassroots Sleuthing to Global Uptake: Epistemic Legitimation of Open-Source Investigations in Journalism Through Mediazona’s War Casualty Project in Russia’s War on Ukraine","authors":"Volha Kananovich","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2744877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2744877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-10-09DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2743866
Isabella Regan,Imar de Vries
{"title":"Between Journalism and Justice: Disciplinary Humility in Open-Source Investigations","authors":"Isabella Regan,Imar de Vries","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2743866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2743866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-09-23DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2729391
Tali Aharoni, Amy Ross Arguedas, Sayan Banerjee, Camila Mont’Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher
{"title":"“Having Fun and Learning Something”: How Users in Four Countries Define What News Is – and Is Not","authors":"Tali Aharoni, Amy Ross Arguedas, Sayan Banerjee, Camila Mont’Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2729391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2729391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-09-21DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2733607
Rasmus W. Schmøkel, Kim Andersen, Morten Skovsgaard
{"title":"The Matthew Effect of Social Media Algorithms: News Avoidance and Polarisation of News Consumption","authors":"Rasmus W. Schmøkel, Kim Andersen, Morten Skovsgaard","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2733607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2733607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"25 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-09-18DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2730312
Yael de Haan,Rijk van den Broek
{"title":"The Informed Citizen in Local Communities: A User-Centred Study on How the Public Values Local Journalism","authors":"Yael de Haan,Rijk van den Broek","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2730312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2730312","url":null,"abstract":"While political and academic debates often focus on the challenges facing local journalism, there is limited understanding of how citizens themselves experience local news and what they expect from it. This study addresses that gap through 15 focus groups, adopting a user-centred approach to explore how local communities engage with and interpret the world through local journalism. We move beyond a fixed geographic definition of “locality,” conceptualizing local media as fluid entities that relate to dynamic concepts such as “social cohesion.” The findings show that while there is a strong appetite for local news, audiences frequently experience the landscape as fragmented and overwhelming, making it difficult to access the information they need. Furthermore, the study highlights a desire for reporting that goes beyond surface-level, day-to-day coverage. People are looking for journalism that deepens public understanding, addresses real-life concerns, and meaningfully engages with the issues that shape their daily lives.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149003594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}