Media and Communication

We are pleased to announce that the thematic issue “Journalism in the Hybrid Media System”, edited by Silke Fürst, Florian Muhle, and Colin Porlezza, is now published in Media and Communication.

This thematic issue examines journalism’s role within complex, hybridized media environments shaped by platforms, algorithms, shifting logics of attention, and various actors. Bringing together empirical, theoretical, methodological, and historical perspectives from across three continents, the contributions reveal both enduring structures and transformative dynamics, offering nuanced insights into journalism’s evolving practices, societal functions, and current—as well as future—challenges.

Access the full special issue in Media and Communication here: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.i494

ARTICLES

Journalism in the Hybrid Media System: Editorial

Silke Fürst, Florian Muhle and Colin Porlezza

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.11227

Ensuring News Quality in Platformized News Ecosystems: Shortcomings and Recommendations for an Epistemic Governance

Pascal Schneiders and Birgit Stark

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10042 

Historical Roots of Information Flows in Hybrid Media Systems

Silke Fürst

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10375

Network Analysis for Media Ownership: A Methodological Proposal

Mariia Aleksevych and Tales Tomaz

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10141 

A See-Through Curtain of Varying Texture: Negotiating Power and Material Realities in Engaged Journalism

Bissie Anderson

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10027

Fact-Checkers as New Journalistic Mediators: News Agencies’ Verification Units and Platform Dynamics

Regina Cazzamatta

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.9867

Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System

Daniel Trielli

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.9975

Media Hybridization and the Strategic Value of Political Incivility: Insights From Italian Journalists

Rossella Rega

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10236

Artificial Amplification and Intermedia Dynamics in the Hybrid Media System: The Case of #LaschetLacht

Florian Muhle and Indra Bock

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10244

Climate Communication in the Hybrid Media System: Media and Stakeholder Logics on Social Media

Simon M. Luebke, Nadezhda Ozornina, Mario Haim and Jörg Haßler

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.9892

Issue Attention and Semantic Overlap in Vaccination Coverage Within Switzerland’s Hybrid Media System

Dario Siegen and Daniel Vogler

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.10040

If you have any questions about this thematic issue, please contact guest editor Silke Fürst: s.fuerst@ikmz.uzh.ch