Journalism (Special issue)

Deadline: October 20, 2023

Reminder that just over two weeks are left to send in your abstract to be considered for the Journalism special issue on

Key Dates

• Deadline for abstracts: October 20th, 2023.
  
• Deadline for full paper submission: January 8th, 2024.
  
• First round of reviews complete: April 30th, 2024.
  
• Resubmission of papers: June 30th, 2024.
  
• Second round of reviews completed: August 2nd, 2024.
  
• Submission of final manuscripts: October 31st, 2024.

Guest Editors: Dr. Saumava Mitra, Prof. Roy Krøvel and Dr. Yennué Zárate Valderrama

We invite submissions for a special issue of Journalism which aims to bring together recent research on how journalists, newsrooms and journalist organizations, by working across professional, cultural and geographical boundaries can improve safety for journalists. Understanding the roles that self-reliance and solidarity among journalists, individually, collectively and structurally, can play in ensuring safety of journalists is key to identifying the possibilities and potentials of the emergent practice of 'radical sharing' of risk as well as information, among journalists. The full call for papers can be found here.

We are keen to include papers on, but not only limited to, the following topics:

• Investigations on experiences from journalistic cooperation projects creating a consensus that 'killing the journalist will not kill the story'.
  
• Investigations into efficacies and efficiencies of approaching safety measures collectively, internationally and cross-continentally.
  
• Investigations into efforts to promote the safety of journalists in authoritarian "democracies" through cross-border collaborative platforms, organisations and interventions.
  
• Measuring the effects of collaborative campaigns and other collective actions to improve the safety of journalists.
  
• Knowledge about and practice of fostering a future culture of safety through international collaborations in journalism education.
  
• Investigations on economic, professional and political implications of collaborative journalistic work.
  
• Different approaches to theorising the safety for journalists based on crossborder solidarity.
  
• Investigations on local and cross-border journalistic collaborative work in, between, and among countries both in the Global South and North.
  
• Other topics that might be relevant within the broad framework of solidarity and self-reliance for safety among journalists will also be given due consideration by the editors for the forthcoming special issue.
  

Extended abstracts (500-800 words), accompanied by a 100-150-word author bio, should be sent to the guest editors at safetyofjournalists@oslomet.no by October 20, 2023. 

If selected, scholars will be invited to submit full papers. We welcome research articles that are empirical or conceptual. These should not be more than 8,000 words in length, including references. All submissions are subject to full blind peer-review, in accordance with the peer-review procedure of Journalism. Manuscripts will be submitted through the journal's ScholarOne website. Authors must indicate that they wish to have their manuscript considered for this Special Issue.