Journalism and Media MDPI

03/10/2025

🔥 Hot off the press: Volume 6, Issue 3 is now out!

We are excited to share the latest issue, featuring 63 open-access manuscripts, all free to read at: http://bit.ly/3IsOZqt

This issue brings together cutting-edge research in journalism, media, and communication, including:
📰 The Problem of Pain: how journalism turns to altruism to manage suffering
📱 Multimedia storytelling trends in online journalism
🤖 Transparency, ethics, and AI use in newsrooms
🔄 The interface of interactivity and audience expectations in digital media
🌐 Media bias, political participation, and digital partisanship across Europe
🎙 Podcasting ecosystems and their rise beyond legacy media
🗳 Social media campaigning and algorithmic mediation in political communication
…and much more!

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

02/10/2025

🌐 MDPI World Day Webinar | Global Media & Information Literacy Week 2025 📚

Join us for a discussion on media and information literacy (MIL) in the digital age! Hear insights directly from our Guest Editors Rashid Mehmood, Inês Amaral, Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, and Sara Pereira at the MIL Webinar.

🗓️ Date: 28 October 2025
🕑 Time: 4:00 p.m. CEST | 11:00 a.m. EDT

🎓 Join live and receive a free certificate of attendance!
👉 Register for free: https://bit.ly/46PyiNO
📖 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KutWEt

While waiting for the event, you may also be interested in submitting a manuscript to our special issues in Journalism and Media:

Inês Amaral’s Special Issue “Social Media in Disinformation Studies” → https://bit.ly/4gVSNgy

Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos’ Special Issue “Unravelling the Media’s Role in Technological Innovation and AI's Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts” → https://bit.ly/48cpXX0

You can also explore Rashid Mehmood’s printed Special Issue “Journalism, Media, and Artificial Intelligence: Let Us Define the Journey”, fully available for free → https://bit.ly/4mH3kgL

Celebrate this global event and deepen your understanding of media and information literacy in the digital age we engage in today.

18/09/2025

📢 Publication Alert‼️

🇪🇺 How is the European Union facing today’s challenges?

Journalism, political communication, and the public sphere all play a crucial role – and our new open access reprint “Challenges for the European Union from the Perspective of Journalism, Political Communication, and Public Sphere” edited by Dr. Co**ha Pérez-Curiel, Dr. Ricardo Domínguez-García, and Dr. João Pedro Baptista dives deep into these dynamics.

This volume brings together 14 original studies exploring strategic communication, journalism, and citizenship amid geopolitical tensions, populist discourse, disinformation, and digital fragmentation. Topics include institutional responses to the war in Ukraine, national media portrayals, cross-border communication, the Digital Services Act, emotional framing, platformisation of public service media, fact-checking, media literacy, and the rise of far-right actors on platforms like TikTok and X.

📘Open access – free to read or download. For those who like a more traditional approach, a hard copy is also available. Ideal for scholars, journalists, policymakers, and anyone interested in media, politics, and EU studies

👉 Read, download, or order a hard copy here:

This reprint brings together fourteen original studies that explore the challenges facing strategic communication, journalism, and citizenship in the EU amid an evolving communicative landscape. In a context marked by geopolitical tensions, populist discourse, disinformation, and digital fragmentati...

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 📰