The study of digital journalism continues to generate new questions and answers, as this
special issue illustrates. I understand digital journalism (Waisbord 2019, 352) as “the …

Media and journalism scholars in East Asia have focused on media partisanship and
political polarization, especially in Taiwan and South Korea. However, journalistic roles and …

There have been contradictory observations and discussions on journalistic roles in
covering public health crises, such as media hype/mediatization, politicization, and …

Nearly half a century since the first calls for comparisons of national-level media-political
relations, comparative studies of media systems–and even more so of digital journalism–are …

This article aims to strengthen the theoretical edifice of role performance theory through
appeal to recent advances in cultural theory. Role performance studies often assert that …

This paper comparatively investigates variations in journalistic role performances in
politicized media systems. Poland and Hungary are included in the quantitative content …

This study analyses data gathered as part of an international comparative study of
journalistic role performance during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We situate role …

To understand audience-oriented journalistic role performance, one must understand how
journalists conceptualize and cater to their audience. Giving the audience what it wants is a …

This study applies a media systems approach to examine the performance of journalistic
roles in the news of five Arab countries: Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab …

News podcasts have emerged as a relevant medium, contributing to the collection, analysis,
interpretation, and dissemination of information in mass media discourse. This paper …