SAM - Institutt for journalistikk og mediefag
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Storying Climatically Changed Worlds — Potentials and Pitfalls of Future Journalism
(Journalism Practice;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This study explores the emerging phenomenon of future climate stories in journalism: stories where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) future scenario graphs are combined with storytelling using prior ... -
Theoretical perspectives on crisis, resilience, and innovation
(Chapter, 2024)This chapter describes how the concepts of crisis, resilience, and innovation are well-suited for capturing how Norwegian news media dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic posed threats to public health, leading ... -
The digital shift in news media’s revenue streams during the Covid-19 pandemic
(Chapter, 2024)This chapter sheds light on the economic resilience of Norwegian news media during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on the shifts in revenues within the newspaper industry amidst the crisis. The business ... -
Exploring telework innovation’s value for news workers
(Chapter, 2024)This chapter offers a framework for examining the advantages and challenges associated with a significant innovation in newsroom work that emerged during the Covid-19 crisis: the introduction of teleworking. Applying ... -
Making sense of a crisis
(Chapter, 2024)The Conclusion of this book is closely connected to Chapter 1. As expressed in the Introduction, these chapters, serving as bookends, are designed to be read in conjunction with each other. In this Conclusion, I reflect ... -
Making the struggle for climate jobs common—confessions from an activist professor
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Anybody who lives “in the know” of the climate crisis—and understands some of the systemic causes of the relentless expansion of fossil fuel excavation and combustion—feels enfeebled by the obvious questions of what to say ... -
Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study explores contemporary journalists’ autonomy and role in the Ethiopian contested media practice by taking journalists working in Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). A qualitative research approach was used to collect ... -
How a COVID-19 Live Tracker Led to Innovation in Investigative Journalism
(Chapter, 2023)The practice of investigative journalism is constantly pushing the boundaries of what journalism can do and should be. While certain core values remain intact, professionals readily experiment with new methods, forms of ... -
Hybrid Investigative Journalism During Times of Crisis
(Chapter, 2023)In pursuit of its continued focus on holding power to account—locally, nationally and globally—investigative journalism as a practice has actively incorporated various digital skills and capabilities. The embrace of digital ... -
Bristol Cable: A Local Hybrid Organisation
(Chapter, 2023)Investigative journalism has long been described as ‘in decline’ thanks to aspects such as layoffs and faltering business models (Carson, 2020; Konieczna, 2018), and local journalism has faced similar financial difficulties ... -
The Korea Center for Investigative Journalism: A Hybrid Nonprofit Funding Model
(Chapter, 2023)In 2013, the world-shaking collaborative investigative-journalism project confronting tax avoidance known as the ‘Offshore Leaks’—orchestrated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)—published ... -
The Bureau Local: A Hybrid Network for Local Collaborative Investigative Journalism
(Chapter, 2023)Collaborative journalistic investigations rose to new prominence with the Panama Papers (2016) and Paradise Papers (2017) projects, both of which involved enormous amounts of data shared amongst an international network ... -
Toward a Hybrid Future for Investigative Journalism
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Global Investigative Collaboration
(Chapter, 2023)In this chapter, we focus on how investigative cross-border collaboration has arisen and developed in the digital era by drawing upon our relatively unprecedented access to several news workers at the Forbidden Stories ... -
Making Investigative Journalism in a Hybrid Manner
(Chapter, 2023)It is easy to forget that, historically, hybridity has always been a part of journalism (Hamilton, 2016). For example, ethnographer and sociologist Gaye Tuchman (1978) first engaged with the ‘hybrid’ context of the television ... -
A Hybrid Investigative Ecology
(Chapter, 2023)In Part 2, we have looked at what we called ‘hybrid elements’ in emerging organisations focused on investigative journalism and holding power to account. Since the turn of the millennium, scholars have generally focused ... -
Nudges, emojis, and memes: Mapping interpassivity theory onto digital civic culture
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Once lauded for liberating audiences from their passive state by granting voice, the digital public sphere today increasingly resem- bles a cacophony of disjointed voices datafied for the gain of giant tech firms. Instead ... -
Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article explores how platforms, news publishers, and fact-checkers describe the trade- offs they make in partnerships to counter misinformation. Using 54 interviews with these actors active in the global fact-checking ... -
Farlige ord: De hemmelige tjenestenes forståelse av desinformasjon som en samfunnstrussel
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)I denne artikkelen ser jeg nærmere på hva som ligger til grunn for sikkerhetsmyndighetenes forståelse av desinfor- masjon som en samfunnstrussel, og hvordan de jobber mot spredning i Norge. Artikkelen er basert på ...