This study investigates the degree of news avoidance during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Based on two panel surveys conducted in the period April–June 2020, this study shows that the increased presence of this behavior, can be explained by negative emotions and feelings …

With the rise of innovation and entrepreneurship as avenues for journalists to take in their search for journalistic work, we need to critically interrogate how these terms are understood. Various journalism institutions are pushing a particular understanding of journalism, and of what constitutes meaningful …

This study explores how journalists in highspeed newsrooms gather information, how gathering activities are temporally structured and how reliability manifests itself in information-gathering activities.

Over the past decade, journalists have created in-depth interactive narratives to provide an alternative to the relentless 24-hour news cycle. Combining different media forms, such as text, audio, video, and data visualisation with the interactive possibilities of digital media, these narratives involve …

Interactive multimedia productions are a recent journalistic format. The format has been studied in the Anglo-Saxon context as digital longform and interactive documentary. Research has consequently focused on English language productions. This article presents an overview of these types of productions …

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful introduction of false information for the purposes of causing harm, recalls infamous foreign interference operations in national media systems. Outcries over fake news, or dubious stories …

61 procent van de journalisten in Nederland heeft weleens te maken met een bedreiging, dit blijkt uit een onderzoek van voormalig ombudsman Alex Brenninkmeijer en criminoloog Marjolein Odekerken (Odekerken & Brenninkmeijer, 2017). Uit recente cijfers blijkt dat het aantal bedreigingen alleen maar verder …

Het zijn zware tijden in de journalistiek: redacties staan onder druk wegens krappe budgetten (onder meer (Villamedia, 2019) en (NDP Nieuwsmedia)) en de personele druk neemt immer toe wegens reorganisaties (onder meer (Villamedia, 2016), (Villamedia, 2018), (nrc.nl, 2015)). En dat terwijl het aantal …

Major news outlets increasingly use immersive techniques in their journalistic productions. The idea is that, through the application of immersive technologies, the news consumer can engage with and be part of the story. However, we do not know, to what extent this promise is actually fulfilled in productions …

Thorough understanding of how “outside the box” ideas in the newsroom can be triggered and fostered is fundamental to grasp innovation in journalism, but is still largely uncharted territory. Comprehension of its key elements would enable news organisations to reinvent themselves and improve chances …