Program
The general conference starts on Thursday June 16 2022 at 9.00. Registration starts at 8.00.
The conference ends on Friday June 17 2022 at 15.30.

Keynote presentations will be given on Thursday June 16. More information on speakers and keynotes you can find on the Keynote Page.
The conference dinner is on Thursday June 16 at Stadskasteel Oudaen. You can find more information about the location on the Location page.
On Wednesday June 15 there will be a special PhD program. You can find more information or the PhD Program page.
The conference will feature both traditional paper presentations and practitioner sessions, where researchers will first present after which they will go in debate with a media professional who has expertise in the topic of the panel.
In both type of sessions, we want to stimulate a lively debate on the overarching panel topic. Therefore, presenters will be given no more than 10 minutes to present. In some sessions, this will even be just 7 minutes. We will let you know for which sessions this is the case.
Throughout the conference participants will be interviewed on specific themes by students. The summary compilation of these interviews will be published afterwards in a podcast.
Conference schedule
Thursday (16 june)
08:00
Registration & coffee
09:00
Opening & keynote by Thomas Poell
- Room: 0.055
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10.30-12.00
Session 1: Local Journalism
Chair: Sebastiaan van der Lubben
Respondent: Bart Brouwers
- Room 2.020
Authors: Rijk van den Broek, Piet Bakker, Quint Kik, Yael de Haan
Institutions: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht & Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek
Title: The continuous rise of the hyperlocal
Authors: Maria Cruz Negreira Rey
Institution: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Title: Financing challenges in the Spanish local and hyperlocal digital media
Authors: Daniel Jackson & Antje Glück
Institution: Bournemouth University
Title: Fighting against the machine: The anatomy of a solutions journalism campaign across local news outlets in the UK
Authors: Astrid Vandendaele & Jaap de Jong
Institution: Leiden University
Title: Sub-editing as a collective and collaborative process – A qualitative study of the role of the sub-editor at local and regional news media in the Netherlands.
10.30-12.00
Session 2: Covid-19
Chair: Phoebe Maares
- Room 2.012
Authors: Rita Araújo, Felisbela Lopes, Ana Teresa Peixinho, Clara Almeida Santos, Olga Magalhães & Catarina Duff Burnay
Institutions: Universidade do Minho, Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade do Porto & Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Title: The challenges of Covid-19 in Portuguese journalism and the rise of a post-pandemic paradigm
Authors: Clara Almeida Santos, Rita Araújo, Ana Teresa Peixinho & Olga Magalhães
Institutions: Universidade do Minho, Universidade de Coimbra & Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Title:The power of expert sources in the media coverage of Covid-19 and its impact in reconfiguring journalism
Authors: Jana Rick & Corinna Lauerer
Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Title: Precarity, Covid-19 and Gender: Women as precarious workers in journalism?
Authors: Sarah Van Leuven, Bart Vanhaelewyn and Karin Raeymaeckers
Institution: Ghent University
Title: Precarity in the journalistic workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: A representative survey of Belgian journalists
Authors: Hannes Cools, Baldwin Van Gorp , Michaël Opgenhaffen
Institution: KU Leuven
Title: How COVID-19 Changed the Way Newsrooms Innovate: The Impact on the Individual Work Packages and The Collective Roles of Innovation Labs
10.30-12.00
Session 3: Journalism education
Chair: Chris van der Heijden
Respondent: Loeki Abram
- Room 2.014
Authors: Carl-Jannis Frech & Jessica Kunert
Institution: University of Hamburg
Title: Innovation in journalism education through learning by doing: 360° video between research and practice
Authors: Mette Stentoft & Ida Skytte
Institution: The Danish School for Media and Journalism
Title: Educational Podcasts: a Double Win
Authors: Marc-Christian Ollrog & Marcel Franze
Institution: Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
Title: Is there a European pattern in journalism education?
Authors: Maaike Severijnen, Chris van der Heijden & Yael de Haan
Institution: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Title: Educating for a changing media landscape: Four scenarios for teaching journalism in 2030
Authors: Dorien Luyckx & Steve Paulussen
Institution: University of Antwerp
Title: Bridging the gap. Journalism students’ views on commercial, editorial and technological skills and their future job.
Authors: Chloë Salles & Emmanuel Marty
Institution: Université Grenoble Alpes
Title: Training to cover climate change
12.00 – 12.45
Lunch
12.45 – 14.15
Session 4: AI & Journalism
Chair: Nele Goutier
Respondent: Laurens Vreekamp
- Room 2.020
Author: Lia T. Spyridou
Institution: Cyprus University of Technology
Title: Artificial intelligence and story-telling support: Do algorithms do it better?
Authors: Yael de Haan, Nele Goutier, Eric van den Berg, Sanne Kruikemeier, Sophie Lecheler
Institutions: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, University of Amsterdam & University of Vienna
Title: The Ultimate Guide? The Impact of Algorithmic Search Results in Journalistic Information Gathering Routines
Author: Samuel Danzon-Chambaud
Institution: Dublin City University
Title: Evaluating the impacts of automated news on media practitioners: Key implications for journalism practice
Author: Stuart Duncan
Institution: Ryerson University
Title: News Personalization: Do Journalism Audiences Prefer Algorithms Over Editors?
12.45 – 14.15
Session 5: News Consumption
Chair: Zvi Reich
- Room 2.012
Author: Dina Farouk
Institution: Abou Zeid Ain Shams University
Title: Egyptian Youth News Consumption in the 21st Century
Authors: Tena Perišin, Andrija Henjak, Petra Kovačević & Stela Lechpammer, Dejan Oblak
Institution: University of Zagreb
Title: What the young audiences in Croatia want: Development of new storytelling approaches at the Journalism Research Lab
Authors: Kristin Van Damme & Stefaan Anrys
Institution: Artevelde University of Applied Sciences
Title: News moments
Authors: Kiki de Bruin, Yael de Haan, Sanne Kruikemeier & Rens Vliegenthart
Institutions: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht & University of Amstedam
Title: News avoidance or conscious consuming? In-depth Interviews with News Avoiders in The Netherlands
14.15 – 14.45
Tea & Drinks
14.45 – 16.15
Session 6: Audience engagement, storytelling and emotions
Chair: Evelyn Runge
- Room 2.020
Authors: Hannah Greber, Sophie Lecheler & Loes Aaldering
Institutions: University of Vienna & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: Audience Evaluation of Worthwhileness of Immersive Journalism
Authors: Renée van der Nat, Piet Bakker & Eggo Müller
Institutions: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht & Utrecht University
Title: Capturing Audience Engagement The experience of interactivity in journalistic narratives
Authors: Libby van den Besselaar, Renske van Enschot & Christian Roth
Institutions: Tilburg University, University of Arts Utrecht (HKU) & Steck
Title: War in your own city. The effects on transformative learning of agency and personal relevance in a narrative news game.
Author: Scott Eldridge II
Institutions: University of Groningen
Title: A critical dialogue: The construction of metajournalistic counter-publics
14.45 – 16.15
Session 7: Datafication of Journalism
Chair: Kenza Lemot
- Room 2.012
Author: Ana Milojevic
Institution: University of Bergen
Title: Balancing out quality and quantity: Datafied audience and media in Norway
Authors: Danielle Arets, Jessy de Cooker, Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof, Shirbaz, H. & Bart van Teeffelen
Institution: Fontys University of Applied Sciences Tilburg
Title: Journalism by the dashboard light. Audience metrics in Dutch newsrooms
Author: Alice Fubini
Institution: University of Bologna
Title: Is it just data journalism? New entanglements between journalism and activism in a challenging digital era from the perspective of informative activism.
Authors: Inbal Avraham-Klein & Zvi Reich
Institution: Bun Gurion University of the Nagev
Title: Mapping the emergence of visual biases in journalism interactive visualizations
14.45 – 16.15
Session 8: Constructive Journalism
Chair: Sergio Splendore
- Room 2.014
Authors: Nadia Swijtink, Liesbeth Hermans & Tineke Prins
Institutions: Windesheim University of Applied Sciences & Radboud University
Title: Message Received: The Impact of Constructive News Reporting on the Perception of Social Issues
Authors: Marju Himma-Kadakas & Hindrek Pärg
Institution: Karlstad University
Title: What is that ’bleeding’? Negativity in the news: how and why it is constructed in the newsroom
Authors: An Nguyen & Noha Mellor
Institution: Bournemouth University
Title: Relationship between public perceptions of problems-focused news and those of solutions-oriented news: should journalism abandon its negative bias in favour of more positive news?
Authors: Kim Smeenk, Frank Harbers & Marcel Broersma
Institution: University of Groningen
Title: When the journalist becomes the story: ethos as a key legitimization strategy in personal journalism
17:15 – 18.00
Keynote by Geert-Jan Bogaerts
- Stadskasteel Oudaen
18:00 – 19.00
Reception
- Stadskasteel Oudaen
19:00
Conference dinner
- Stadskasteel Oudaen
Friday (17 june)
9.00 – 10.30
Session 9: Declining safety of journalism
Chair: Maaike Severijnen
- Room 2.020
Author: Philip Di Salvo
Institution: Università della Svizzera Italiana
Title: Spyware technology and the existential digital threat against journalism safety
Author: Maja Šimunjak
Institution: Middlesex University London
Title: ‘Being a lab rat and a punch bag’: British journalists’ emotional labour in negotiating harassment on Twitter
Authors: Lada Price & Ola Ogunyemi
Institutions: University of Lincoln & Sheffield Hallam University
Title: The role of journalism educators in offering trauma informed literacy to journalism students
Authors: Lenka Waschková Císařová & Johana Kotišová
Institutions: Masaryk University & University of Amsterdam
Title: “I know which devil I write for”: Two types of autonomy among Czech journalists remaining in and leaving the Prime Minister’s newspapers; and my co-author is Johana Kotisova.
Author: Johana Kotišová
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Title: Decolonizing conflict journalism studies: A critical review of research on fixers
Authors: Ansgard Heinrich & David Cheruiyot
Institution: University of Groningen
Title: “Journalism from the heart of crises”. How ‘The New Humanitarian’ shapes global conflict reporting
9.00 – 10.30
Session 10: Sourcing & Investigative journalism
Chair: Yael de Haan
- Room 2.012
Author: Dolors Palau Sampio
Institution: Universitat de València
Title: Challenges in quality digital transition: Cross-border collaboration in investigative journalism
Authors: Bart Vanhaelewyn, Sarah Van Leuven & Karin Raeymaeckers
Institution: Ghent University
Title: Blowing hot and cold? A quantitative content analysis of climate change coverage on Belgian news sites
Authors: Niek Hietbrink & Liesbeth Hermans
Institutions: Windesheim University of Applied Sciences & Radboud University
Title: “What’s this all about?!”: Talkshows as a metaphor for the public sphere.
Authors: Cristal Kolopaking & Jasmijn Van Gorp
Institution: Utrecht University
Title: ‘Tracing Frames through the Broadcast Archive: the Use of ASR in Multimodal Framing Analysis
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30
Session 11: Journalism Innovation
Chair: Kiki de Bruin
- Room 2.020
Authors: Ornella Porcu, Liesbeth Hermans & Marcel Broersma
Institutions: Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Radboud University &University of Groningen
Title: Trust and Fear in the Newsroom. How emotional drivers impact the exchange of innovative ideas
Authors: Amanda Daniëlle Brouwers & Rachel Lara van der Merwe
Institution: University of Groningen
Title: When even an interview is not enough: The struggle with subjective experiences of journalists and their place in innovation research
Authors: Venia Papa & Theodoros Kouros
Institution: University of Cyprus
Title: ‘Facebook and Google cares deeply about journalism’? Mapping audience-based monetization projects and the impact on journalistic practices and values
11.00 – 12.30
Session 12: Designing for deeper audience engagement. Researchers and journalism practitioners join forces to put forward a practice-based research agenda focussed on questions concerning the design for deeper audience engagement.
Respondents: José de Vries & Yael de Haan
- Room 2.012
Contributor: Catalina Albeanu, Decât o Revistă, Romania
Contributor: Shirish Kulkarni, Bureau Local, UK
Topic: Moving past the metrics: The politics of assessing engagement through technical-behavioral parameters
Contributor: Bissie Anderson, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Contributor: Robin Kwong, Wall Street Journal, UK/US
Topic: (Beyond) interactive design: Relational, experiential, and transformative potential of new journalism form(at)s
Contributor: Ester Appelgren, Södertörn University, Sweden
Contributor: Renée van der Nat, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands
Topic: The case for audience-centered news products: Finding the balance between designing for engagement and journalistic principles
Contributor: Eddy Borges-Rey, Northwestern University, Qatar
Contributor: Christian Roth, Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands
Topic: The endgame of engagement: Finding the balance in the audience-journalist participation
Contributor: Raul Ferrer-Conill University of Stavanger, Norway; Karlstad University, Sweden
Contributor: Steen Steensen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Session 13: Changing News Habits
Chair: Renée van der Nat
Respondent: Maike Olij
- Room 2.020
Authors: Marcel Broersma & Joëlle Swart
Institution: University of Groningen
Title: A haptic turn in journalism studies
Author: Jorge Vázquez-Herrero
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Title: Journalism’s transition to TikTok: Media and journalists exploring a new world
Author: Jonathan Hendrickx
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Title: Scrolling through the news: An explorative study of a youth-oriented Instagram news channel in Belgium
Authors: Tim Groot Kormelink, Brendan Hadden, Doortje Linssen, Elisabetta Santangelo, Frédérique Blaauw, Lisa Kiewiet & Pepijn Keppel
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: Everyday podcast use: A qualitative study of news habit formation
13.30 – 15.00
Session 14: Digitization in the News room
Chair: Hannes Cools
- Room 2.012
Authors: Oded Jackman & Zvi Reich
Institution: Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Title: Applying the Delphi Technique to Journalism Studies
Authors: Sebastiaan van der Lubben, Jaap de Jong, Willem Koetsenruijter & Yael de Haan
Institutions: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht & Leiden University
Title: “All journalists in this organization should know how to liveblog, but not all of them are livebloggers.” Traits, Practices and Conventions for Realizing Credibility in Breaking News
Authors: Phoebe Maares & Folker Hanusch
Institution: University of Vienna
Title: A question of belonging: The self-description and claims of authority of political peripheral actors on the edge of the journalistic field
Authors: Daniel Nölleke, Phoebe Maares & Sandra Banjac
Institutions: University of Vienna & University of Groningen
Title: The elimination of coincidence in remote newsrooms. On the relevance of place and unexpected objects for journalistic practice.
Authors: Dimitris Trimithiotis & Sophia Stavrou
Institution: University of Cyprus
Title: Digitalization of Journalism: Discours, Labor and Horizon of Expectation
15:00
Drinks & Closure