Scholarly Articles about Online Journalism

Compiled by Mindy McAdams

This list includes only articles that have been published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. I have been compiling this list for several years, but it is not meant to be comprehensive by any means. I am trying to keep it to 20 articles or fewer. I am also trying to keep it very recent. Articles about online journalism that were published before 2000 have scant relevance to today's practice of online journalism.

All the articles on this list are articles I consider to be very, very good -- and worth reading. Exclusion from this list does not mean I didn't like an article -- I can't read everything, and maybe the article you are thinking of is one I have not read yet.

Articles by Singer and by Deuze are seminal in the field. There are older articles by both of those scholars that I have not included here.

The four articles listed here by George, by He and Zhu, by O'Sullivan, and by Quandt et al. are ideal examples for a scholar who is planning a survey of online journalism in his or her country. Each of these four takes a different approach, and all can serve as valuable models for young scholars.

I would be very happy to hear your comments about this list and to consider your suggestions for additions to it. E-mail:

Boczkowski, P. J. (2004). The processes of adopting multimedia and interactivity in three online newsrooms. Journal of Communication, 54(2), 197–213.

Cohen, E. L. (2002). Online journalism as market-driven journalism. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 46(4), 532–548.

Deuze, M. (2005). What is journalism? Professional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 6(4), 442–464.

Deuze, M. (2004). What is multimedia journalism? Journalism Studies, 5(2), 139–152.

Deuze, M. (2003). The Web and its journalisms: Considering the consequences of different types of news media online. New Media & Society, 5(2), 203–230.

Dupagne, M., & Garrison, B. (2006). The meaning and influence of convergence: A qualitative case study of newsroom work at the Tampa News Center. Journalism Studies, 7(2), 237-255.

George, C. (2005). The Internet’s political impact and the penetration/participation paradox in Malaysia and Singapore. Media, Culture & Society, 27(6), 903–920.

He, Z., & Zhu, J. (2002). The ecology of online newspapers: The case of China. Media, Culture & Society, 24(1), 121–137.

O’Sullivan, J. (2005). Delivering Ireland: Journalism’s search for a role online. Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 67(1), 45–68.

Quandt, T., Löffelholz, M., Weaver, D. H., Hanitzsch, T., & Altmeppen, K-D. (2006). American and German online journalists at the beginning of the 21st century: A bi-national survey. Journalism Studies, 7(2), 171–186.

Robinson, S. (2006). The mission of the j-blog: Recapturing journalistic authority online. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 7(1), 65–83.

Scott, B. (2005). A contemporary history of digital journalism. Television & New Media, 6(1), 89–126.

Singer, J. (2006). Stepping back from the gate: Online newspaper editors and the co-production of content in campaign 2004. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83(2), 265–280.

Singer, J. (2005). The political j-blogger: ‘Normalizing’ a new media form to fit old norms and practices. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 6(2), 173–198.

Singer, J. (2004a). More than ink-stained wretches: The resocialization of print journalists in converged newsrooms. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(4), 838–856.

Singer, J. (2004b). Strange bedfellows: The diffusion of convergence in four news organizations. Journalism Studies 5(1), 3–18.

Singer, J. (2003). Who are these guys? The online challenge to the notion of journalistic professionalism. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 4(2), 139–168.