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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · May 30

Overall, our findings suggest a fairly broad consensus between journalists and users about what makes journalistic news high quality and indicate that audiences are more receptive to alternative role models in journalism when it comes to non-political news coverage (6/6).

Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · May 30

Other roles differed in their appreciation more depending on the topic. While public service-oriented roles were more appreciated in political news, consumer-oriented roles were perceived as more valuable outside political reporting, especially the “service” role (5/6)

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · May 30

The most pronounced differences between both groups occurred with regard to the two public influence-oriented roles included in this study (“interventionism” and “loyal facilitator”), both of which found significantly less acceptance among journalists than among media users across all topics (4/6)

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · May 30

Our findings reveal overall more similarities than differences in audiences’ and journalists’ quality assessments regarding journalistic role performance – with a particularly high appreciation for the neutral “disseminator” role (3/6)

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · May 30

This experimental study investigates the influence of journalistic roles on media users’ (N = 636) and journalists’ (N = 253) news quality perceptions. Seven established journalistic roles were experimentally varied as concrete news features in political, health, and sports news stories (2/6)

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · May 30

❗️ 📣 ❗️📣 Amazing news. Our paper “Effects of Journalistic Roles on Chilean Media Users’ and Journalists’ Quality Evaluations of News” coauthored with @cmothes.bsky.social was just published in @JournPractice ❗️📣

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Effects of Journalistic Roles on Chilean Media Users’ and Journalists’ Quality Evaluations of News

This experimental study investigates the influence of journalistic roles on media users’ (N = 636) and journalists’ (N = 253) news quality perceptions. Seven established journalistic roles were exp...

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JRP PROJECT @jrpproject.bsky.social · Apr 8

The Finnish team of the JRP project has received €150,000 in funding from the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation to carry out the study in Finland.

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JRP PROJECT @jrpproject.bsky.social · Mar 14

The third wave of the JRP project will build upon the advancements made in the first and second waves, incorporating findings, methodologies, and knowledge developed through our collaborative efforts. Want to know more about this? Check out this video

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JRP PROJECT @jrpproject.bsky.social · Mar 12

With an ambitious agenda ahead, we are ready to push boundaries, explore new insights, and strengthen our global network. Here’s to another impactful chapter in the JRP Project!

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JRP PROJECT @jrpproject.bsky.social · Mar 12

Kicking Off the Third Wave of the JRP Project! 🌍
Last week, we officially launched the third wave of our global research initiative! Researchers from around the world came together for our first general online meeting, setting the stage for an exciting new phase of collaboration and discovery.

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Jan 15

Honored by the nomination for our 37-country study and grateful to every single scholar and researcher from our incredible international JRP project team 🙏

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Jan 9

(3/3) The variations that we found among the countries provide sufficient evidence that warns against broad generalizations and warrants a more nuanced theorization of this part of the world.

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Jan 9

(2/3) As part of the Journalistic Role Performance project, we analyze 13,299 news stories in Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, and the UAE to explore how political systems, media ownership, and platforms shape journalistic roles in the news.

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Jan 9

Great to see that our article “Mapping Journalistic Role Performance Across Five Arab Countries,” is now in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social 🧵 (1/3)

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Dec 5

(3/3) The paper discusses how the level of country freedom moderates these relationships.

Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Dec 5

(2/3) Findings show that the geographic frame does not influence the performance of public service-oriented roles, while significantly impacts others: the service role is more dominant in domestic; infotainment is higher in foreign; and interventionism and loyalism are more prevalent in mixed news.

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Dec 5

New JRP article in Journalism - led by Sandrine Baudana - looking at how journalistic role performance varies in domestic, foreign, and mixed news

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icajsd.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social · Dec 2

The ICA JSD PhD Colloquium has been a cornerstone of our division. We're looking for commentators who would like to give feedback to our early-career participants of the PhD Colloquium. If you would like to take part in the PhD Colloquium, please reach out to mathias.felipe @ unifesp.br #ica25

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Nov 26

We just concluded the first JRP Project meeting with 23 new country members who will join the study alongside our current members for its next wave (2026-2029).

Some members of the EC of the project also attended the meeting.

We look forward to a fruitful collaboration together! 👏🏻

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Nov 25

I wish I could be there 🙏

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Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social · Nov 21

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