Many thanks to @dgarusi.bsky.social for the great talk at the VMCI Research Colloquium!

The presentation on causality in qualitative research offered thought-provoking and reflective insights and led to a lively discussion. Thanks for sharing your perspectives and expertise! 🎓

New publication!
Splendore and I use a mixed-methods design to explore how Italian young adults understand their news environment. Interviews reveal a clear distinction between folk theories of journalism and of journalists, while a follow-up survey shows different factors shaping each

Real freelancers, contingent workers, and journopreneurs. Mapping atypical journalistic work in Western Europe - Phoebe Maares, 2025 While there has been growing scholarly interest in freelance and other atypically employed journalistic workers in the past 20 years, most of it has been addres...

✨New publication #OA in Journalism✨
In this study I compare the journalistic cultures of freelancers and other atypically employed journalists in Austria, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the UK.
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New publication!
Sartre's concept of "the look" turned out to be insightful for grasping how local journalists construct and promote social identities in the communities they cover. With @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social & Folker Hanusch

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True Crime Podcasting as Journalistic Heterodoxy: Boundary Practices and Journalistic Epistemology of a Heretic Interloper Non-fictional true crime reporting has enjoyed a somewhat deviant position within the journalistic field and has been rejected as sensationalist and not considered “good” journalism by journalistic...

New #OA pub out with @acadianjprof.bsky.social in Journalism Studies, in which we examine true crime podcasters membership claims and epistemic practices. This was a fun side quest which combined my love for podcasts with my work on journalistic boundaries. tinyurl.com/5f427tja

Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology Abstract. In journalism studies and political communication research it is generally agreed that news media trust concerns a psychological state related to

Schütz's Phenomenological Sociology helps to better conceptualize: 1) what news media trust consists of; 2) its situational character; and 3) how different levels of analysis are related to each other. With @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social & Folker Hanusch

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Congrats to team member @dgarusi.bsky.social for having his research featured in the #ViDSS newsletter: vds-sosci.univie.ac.at/people/phd-s...

Publication alert! Team members Diego Garusi and @birteleonhardt.bsky.social propose a processual and multi-sided approach to news media trust research by looking into constructive journalists' trust-building strategies. t.co/KcfyOqHiSs

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New publication from Diego Garusi and @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social investigating how different folk theories of journalism shape different news consumption and trust decisions among young adults:

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Hello new followers! If you want to know more about our team’s work you can also find some of them here as well:
@birteleonhardt.bsky.social
@clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social
@dgarusi.bsky.social
@dominikhokamp.bsky.social
@kimloehmann.bsky.social
@phoebemaares.bsky.social