Journalism and Media MDPI

03/07/2025

📰 New Issue Alert!

The June 2025 Issue of Journalism and Media (Vol. 6, Issue 2) is now available, featuring 49 open-access articles on topics such as global media perspectives, digital transformation, media trust, gender representation, and much more.

Whether you're a researcher, practitioner, or media enthusiast, you'll find timely and insightful content.

📖 Read the full issue here – no paywall:
👉 http://bit.ly/4eAB5y7

Journalism and Media, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

16/06/2025

Thrilled to announce that Journalism and Media has achieved an increased CiteScore of 2.9 in June 2025!🎉

We’re proud to be ranked:
✅ Q1 (168 out of 1212) in Linguistics and Language
✅ Q1 (144 out of 630) in Arts and Humanities (Miscellaneous)
✅ Q2 (185 out of 674) in Social Sciences (Miscellaneous)

A big thank you to all our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers who contributed to this success! 🙌

If you’re interested in collaborating with a Q1-ranked Scopus journal, whether by submitting a paper, proposing a Special Issue, or learning more about open access benefits and discounts, feel free to contact us at: [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you!

🔍 More info about the journal's statistics can be found here: https://bit.ly/4mZt3CD

29/05/2025

Happy to share a new paper published by Alexander Tawiah!

The study examines how Ghana’s 2024 presidential candidates used Facebook, Instagram, and X to frame the economy and education, two of the most pressing issues during the election year. It also analyzes how platform-specific affordances shaped the visibility and presentation of these frames to influence voter engagement and public discourse.

📄 Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3HwRZAU

This paper is part of our Special Issue "Journalism in Africa: New Trends" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/special_issues/2L02HUQ63K), led by Prof. Folu Ogundimu at Michigan State University.

🎓 Congratulations to Alexander, who recently graduated from Texas State University as the top student in the MA Mass Communication program. We wish him great success in his current and future research!

28/05/2025

📢 Call for Papers

At a time when the US government is reportedly trying to limit media diversity and even its own international media presence, the importance of embracing multiple voices and perspectives is greater than ever.

This is particularly so in journalism, which is in its own crisis/Golden Age (depending on one’s point of view!). As political, economic, and technological changes reshape the landscape, more people than ever are consuming and producing journalism. Global media remains powerful, especially when we count corporate platforms, but local forms of storytelling, speaking, and documenting are thriving, too.

This Special Issue will explore these dynamics through political economy, ethnography, and textual analysis, reaching across the globe and across genres.

We warmly invite you to contribute!
The issue is led by Prof. Toby Miller.

Submission Deadline: January 30, 2026
If you have any questions, contact: [email protected]

👉 More info here: https://bit.ly/452TTTX

31/03/2025

Thrilled to announce that the first Issue of 2025 is now out! In Issue 1, Vol. 6, we feature 45 manuscripts, all open-access and free to read at: https://bit.ly/4hNy1yl.

The Issue includes cutting-edge research in journalism, media, and communication, including:

🔥 Climate change discourse and extreme events
📡 The 2024 Iranian missile attack as a live media event
📊 The factuality of news on Twitter/X
🌍 Migration coverage in the Greek press
🎭 Political parties’ use of Facebook
🔍 AI’s role in disinformation and media ethics
📺 Gender representation in reality shows
📻 The rise of podcasts beyond legacy media

And much more!

24/03/2025

While existing research on podcasts has extensively examined content, organizational frameworks, and economic dimensions—particularly within the realm of journalism studies—many fundamental questions remain unexplored. As podcasts increasingly shape media markets and redefine journalism’s core functions and identity, there is an urgent need for further exploration.

This Special Issue seeks to advance the academic discourse on podcasting by welcoming contributions that provide new insights, theoretical advancements, and empirical analyses on the role of podcasts in contemporary media landscapes.

Deadline: November 30, 2025

More info at: http://bit.ly/4iWZ0sp

We look forward to receiving your contributions!

11/02/2025

We are pleased to inform you that Journalism and Media (ISSN: 2673-5172) has been accepted as a Class A journal, sector 14/C2 (Sociology of culture and communication), in ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca). This is in addition to already being listed as a scientific journal in Area 14 (Political and social sciences).

We want to extend our sincerest gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, and editors who have contributed to our journal and made this possible. This achievement is very important to us as it is proof of our successful collaboration with Italian communication scholars. It also offers the Italian communication scholarly community an additional outlet for publication that is highly ranked in their country.

If you are interested in collaborating with us, whether through paper submissions or editing a Special Issue, and would like to explore potential discounts and other benefits of open access publishing in communication studies, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/4gCsMRx

05/02/2025

How does media framing shape public views and online conversations about mass shootings?

A recent Journalism and Media paper by Dr. Emelu and Dr. Brossmann, John Carroll University USA, reveals surprising facts.

Find out more:

Public mass shootings pose a critical safety challenge in the U.S. This study investigates how media framing relates to public online engagement, focusing on gun regulation, mental health, and individual and political accountability across five major TV networks: ABC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NBC.....

24/12/2024

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season! ✨🎄

The Editorial Team of Journalism and Media 📰

17/12/2024

📢 New Article Published! 📰✍️

Mark Deuze and Laura Glitsos explore various theoretical frameworks to bring the body back into the study and practice of journalism. In their argument, they apply insights from this exercise to address the well-documented gap between what journalists feel their work should be—and the reality of what their work is actually like.

The article is completely open access and free to read at the following link: https://bit.ly/49Enpj3

15/12/2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article co-authored by our director, Marius Dragomir, alongside experts Marta Rodríguez Castro and Minna Aslama Horowitz, in the Journalism and Media, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published quarterly by MDPI.

The article delves into the impact of platformization on Europe’s public service media (PSM) and examines how the European Union’s (EU) policy approaches influence the challenges faced by PSM in the digital age.

Find out more below!

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/5/3/87

13/12/2024

Hot off the press‼️

Media Influence and Public Opinion on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Projects in Myanmar: A First-Level Agenda-Setting Analysis

This paper contributes to the literature by empirically examining the relationship between media coverage and public opinion on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Myanmar, extending agenda-setting theory to global infrastructure development initiatives in developing countries. The study demonstrates a strong correlation (+0.87) between media coverage and public opinion on BRI issues, highlighting the media's role in shaping public views on international projects. It differentiates the impacts of various media outlets and identifies the dominance of local concerns in media coverage and public attention. The study also reveals minimal coverage and public focus on debt concerns. The study offers practical implications for stakeholders, provides insights into media effects and public opinion formation in developing countries, and contributes to understanding how public perceptions of foreign investments are formed. Given the growing significance of the BRI and similar initiatives, this timely research lays a foundation for future studies on media influence in shaping public opinion on complex geopolitical and economic issues in developing nations. In addition to that the study underscores the importance of investigating how media influences policy decisions regarding the BRI projects in Myanmar, a developing country, as a subject for future investigation.

The full article can be accessed at: https://bit.ly/4iACHct