Digital JournalismPub Date : 2026-03-04DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2636905
Ståle Grut
{"title":"Future Imaginaries of Visual Open Source Investigative Journalism","authors":"Ståle Grut","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2636905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2636905","url":null,"abstract":"At the intersection of journalism and open source intelligence, novel practices offer powerful ways to verify and reconstruct events using visual material, such as eyewitness images. To describe and analyse this emerging form of journalism, the concept “Visual Open Source Investigative Journalism” (VOSIJ) is introduced. While large international news outlets champion VOSIJ and increasing scholarly attention is devoted to it, we know less about the phenomenon outside international, English-language newsrooms. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation, this article examines how thirteen Norwegian journalists who engage in VOSIJ perceive challenges to their line of work in the future. The theory of Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) is used to analyse their concerns about VOSIJ’s future. The article finds that the most significant challenge lies in the limited competence in VOSIJ among journalists, caused by institutional inertia as well as scarce opportunities and resources for training and maintenance. Based on the empirical data, future scenarios and metaphors for VOSIJ are conceptualised. They contribute to ongoing debates about epistemic shifts in journalism, the need for greater visual literacy, and whether VOSIJ should be integrated as a core journalistic function.","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"16 1","pages":"1373-1391"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210870","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 : 2026-02-19DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2026.2622163
Oscar Westlund
{"title":"Defending Academic Freedom in Digital Journalism Studies: The Community Standing Up for the Field, the Scholarship, and the Scholars","authors":"Oscar Westlund","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2026.2622163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2622163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"83 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146260930","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 : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2604740
Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
{"title":"Inequalities in Offline and Online News Media Environments Across Six Countries: The Role of Social Class and Interest in News","authors":"Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2025.2604740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2604740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145920193","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 : 2025-12-12DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2601961
Oscar Björkenfeldt
{"title":"Self-Censorship in Journalism: The Role of Emotional, Professional, and Institutional Factors","authors":"Oscar Björkenfeldt","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2025.2601961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2601961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145752856","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 : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2595216
Jennifer Good
{"title":"Spatiotemporal Unfixing, Image-Flow & Palinode in Photography of the Ukraine War","authors":"Jennifer Good","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2025.2595216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2595216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145609089","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 : 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2592077
Olga Dovbysh, Mariëlle Wijermars
{"title":"Authoritarian Algorithmic Publics: Conceptualising the Nexus of Authoritarianism and Digital Innovation Uptake in Russian News Media","authors":"Olga Dovbysh, Mariëlle Wijermars","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2025.2592077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2592077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575633","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 : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2582158
Anna-Theresa Mayer
{"title":"Updating Public Value: How Journalists Understand Their Societal Role in the Context of Digital Platforms","authors":"Anna-Theresa Mayer","doi":"10.1080/21670811.2025.2582158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2582158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11166,"journal":{"name":"Digital Journalism","volume":"178 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145553597","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}