Bob Franklin Journal Article Award

Created 01 Jan 2021| Updated 21 Feb 2024 | 6 articles

The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award 2023-24

The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award is a collaboration between the journals Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies, which seeks to recognise the article that best contributes to our understanding of connections between culture and society and journalism practices, journalism studies and/or digital media/new technologies. The Award offers the winner(s) a prize to assist with funding for further research.

Top Paper in Digital Journalism

Hase, Valerie et al. (2023), Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal An analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter. Digital Journalism vol. 11(8). pp.1499-1520.

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Top Paper in Journalism Practice

Maria Kyriakidou, Stephen Cushion, Ceri Hughes and Marina Morani (2023), Questioning Fact-Checking in the Fight Against Disinformation: An Audience Perspective Journalism Practice, vol. 17(10), pp.2123-2139.

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Top Paper in Journalism Studies

Karlsson, M., Ferrer Conill, R., & Örnebring, H. (2023), Recoding Journalism: Establishing Normative Dimensions for a Twenty-First Century News Media, Journalism Studies, vol. 24(5), pp.553-572.

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Previous winners

  • 2023 winners: Mikko Villi, Tali Aharoni, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Kaori Hayashi, Eugenia Mitchelstein, Akira Tanaka & Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

  • 2023 highly commended: T.J. Thomson, Daniel Angus, Paula Dootson, Edward Hurcombe & Adam Smith, and Patrick Ferrucci & Timothy Kuhn

  • 2022 winner: David Ryfe

  • 2022 runners-up: Lisa Merten; Jesse Abdenour, Karen McIntyre & Nicole Smith Dahmen

Browse the prize-winning papers and runners-up below.

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Originally published in Digital Journalism, Volume: 10, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2022) Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism

Published online: 14 May 2021
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Originally published in Journalism Studies, Volume: 22, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2021)

Published online: 22 Dec 2020
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Originally published in Digital Journalism, Volume: 9, Number: 8 (14 Sep 2021)

Published online: 13 Nov 2020
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