Our study addresses the disconnection between ideals and practice in journalism, analyzing how professional roles materialize in the news in 59 countries. #JRP
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Jun 12
Last week we held our JRP Project General Meeting at ICA 2026 in Cape Town.
It was a great opportunity to reconnect with colleagues from around the world and discuss the project’s progress.
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for a productive conversation.
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May 19
Journalism doesn't happen in isolation. The JRP Project connects researchers across continents, building a global network where countries interact, compare, and learn from each other — to understand how journalism truly performs around the world.
journalisticperformance.org #JRP
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May 8
From 18 countries to 50 — and still growing.
Since 2013, the JRP Project has been mapping how journalism performs its roles around the world. Three waves of research. More than a decade of commitment to global journalism science.
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Apr 28
Meet our researchers from the US!
The JRP is proud to have an outstanding team representing the USA in our global network of journalism researchers.
Together, they are helping us understand how journalism performs its roles in one of the most influential media landscapes.
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Mar 30
We are delighted to continue working with Karen McIntyre, who contributed to the second wave of the project, and to welcome Meghan Sobel Cohen, who now joins the team and further strengthens Rwanda’s participation in this third global iteration of our research on JRP. 📈🌍
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Mar 25
We are happy to welcome Theodorah Munisi and Dianus J. Ishengoma, as PIs of our project in Tanzania, to the latest phase of the JRP project. Their work will provide crucial data for our global comparison of journalistic roles. 🌊📊
#JRP3rdWave #Tanzania #JournalismResearch
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Mar 13
🇬🇧 JRP UK Team secures British Academy grant for Third Wave fieldwork
Congratulations to the JRP UK team for receiving a British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant for the project “Performing the News: Assessing Journalistic Roles in the UK’s Changing Media Landscape.”
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Mar 13
The project is led by Dan Jackson (Bournemouth University) and brings together a strong research team including Julie Firmstone, Imke Henkel (University of Leeds), Jamie Matthews and Einar Thorsen (Bournemouth University), who will contribute to the project’s fieldwork.
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Feb 23
Exploring the media environment in Greece with researcher Michael Nevradakis. 🇬🇷💻 Stay tuned for more at journalisticperformance.org. #Greece #Journalism #JRP
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Feb 11
Meet our team from Argentina✨ Philip Kitzberger and Natalí Schejtman, who bring deep expertise and rigorous analysis to our research. #Argentina #JournalismStudies #JournalisticRoles #Research
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Feb 5
Big news! 🗞️
Congratulations to María Luisa Humanes on joining the Editorial Board of Prensamedia Group. Her expertise will align JRP research with industry practice via @EditoRed. #MediaIndustry #JournalismResearch #Prensamedia
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Jan 30
Proud to have David Nolan and Aljosha Karim Schapals leading the JRP research in Australia! 🇦🇺 Discover more at journalisticperformance.org. #JournalismResearch #Australia #JRP
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Jan 20
I am delighted to work again with such exceptional colleagues from around the world. With renewed energy in this third wave, the Spanish team continues its journey in the JRP expanding the research focus to include AI use and fact-checking as key forces shaping today’s journalism
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Jan 20
Additionally, we will address the temporal evolution of roles to identify patterns of change or stability and recognize variables associated with shifts in the manifestation of professional roles at the news level in longitudinal studies”
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📢 #CFP ICA Preconference @JRPproject 2026! Theme: "Journalistic roles in context: Global views and local realities". 🌍 Cape Town, South Africa!. 📅 Event Date: June 3 ⏳Submission Deadline of 1000 to 1500 word abstracts: Jan 30 icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/c…
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Jan 19
The third wave of the JRP project officially kicked off in January 2026! We look forward to exploring how journalistic roles are performed across different societies amid AI-driven digital transformation and growing political uncertainty. [1/2]
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Jan 19
With more Asian countries participating in this wave, the project will enable a more comprehensive cross-national understanding of journalistic role performance in Asia.
By Misook Lee, Japan and South Korea PI, Asia representative on the Executive Committee
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Jan 19
We invite you to join the JRP preconference at hashtag#ICA2026 in Cape Town. The deadline for submitting your extended abstract is 30 January 2026. Find detailed information and submission instructions by clicking the lnkd.in/eafnC_pD
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Jan 16
Nicole commented: With this latest wave of @jrpproject in Canada, it’s not just the evolution of journalistic roles that we’re exploring, but how we might use AI to make this type of invaluable content capture and analysis more feasible for more researchers.
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The JRP project is a gamechanger in terms of understanding how journalism is produced worldwide and the best methodological approach to do so.
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