PUBLICATIONS
2nd Wave (2019-2024)
ARTICLES
McIntyre, K., & Abdenour, J. (2024). The Value of Independence: Making the Connection Between Quality Journalism and Editorial Control in Rwanda. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241289428
Boudana, S., Cohen, A. A., & Mellado, C. (2024). The geographic frame matters (too): How journalistic role performance varies in domestic, foreign, and mixed news. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241298783
Lee, M., Mellado, C., Lim, D., & Park, K. (2024). Journalistic Continuity and Variability in South Korea’s COVID-19 Coverage. Journalism Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2433248
Kozman, C., & Mellado, C. (2024). Mapping Journalistic Role Performance Across Five Arab Countries. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241306401
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Mellado, C., & Hallin, D. (2024). Introduction: Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Change. Journalism Practice, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2393669
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Skjerdal, T. (2024). Journalistic Roles and Political Parallelism in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ethiopia. Journalism Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2379891
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StÄ™piÅ„ska, A., Szabó, G., & Adamczewska, K. (2024). Changes in Journalism in Politicized Media Systems: A Study on Newspapers in Poland and Hungary. Journalism Practice, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2340541
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Pagiotti, S., Stanziano, A., Mazzoni, M., & Mincigrucci, R. (2024). Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries. Journalism Practice, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2326988
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Nolan, D., McGuinness, K., Lee, J. Y., Holland, K., & Lewis, M. (2024). Journalistic Role Performance in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Events, Media Systems and Journalistic Practice. Journalism Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2303052
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Blanchett, N., Brin, C., & Duncan, S. (2024). Catch, Engage, Retain: Audience-Oriented Journalistic Role Performance in Canada. Journalism Practice, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2310712
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Mothes, C., Mellado, C., Boudana, S., Himma, M., Nolan, D., McIntyre, K., Kozman, C., Hallin, D. C., Amiel, P., Brin, C., Katherine Chen, Y.-N., Davydov, S., De Maio, M., Dingerkus, F., El-Ibiary, R., Frías Vázquez, M., Glück, A., Garcés-Prettel, M., Luisa Humanes, M., … Van Leuven, S. (2024). Spurring or Blurring Professional Standards? The Role of Digital Technology in Implementing Journalistic Role Ideals in Contemporary Newsrooms. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241246692
Mellado, C., Hallin, D. C., Blanchett, N., Márquez-Ramírez, M., Jackson, D., StÄ™piÅ„ska, A., Skjerdal, T., Himma, M., McIntyre, K., Hagen, L. M., Amiel, P., Abuali, Y., Fahmy, N., Boudana, S., Chen, Y.-N. K., Davidov, S., De Maio, M., Frías Vázquez, M., Garcés, M., … Wyss, V. (2024). The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries. Journalism, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241229951
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Navarro, C., Abuali, Y., Yousef, F., AlShallal, A., & Duarte, L. M. (2024). Evaluating Journalistic Routines in Kuwait: The Use of Information Sources. Journalism Practice, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2312423
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Humanes, M. L. (2023). La performance de los roles profesionales en el periodismo deportivo. Análisis de noticias en cuatro plataformas mediáticas en España. Universitas-XXI, 38, pp. 111-135. https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n38.2023.05
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Zhao, X., Matthews, J., Jackson, D., Mellado, C., Abuali, Y., Thorsen, E., & Glück, A. (2023). Patterns of Journalistic Role Performance during Public Health Crises: Covering COVID-19 in the UK. Journalism Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2259875
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Abdulmajeed, M., & El-Ibiary, R. (2023). Journalistic role conceptions and performance in the global south: A comparison between Egypt and the UAE during COVID-19. International Communication Gazette, 85(8), 646-662. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485231214367
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Kozman, C., & Liu, L. (Randolph). (2024). Sports News in Five Arab Countries: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance Across Platforms and Sources. Communication & Sport, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241231004
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Hallin, D. C., Mellado, C., Cohen, A., Hubé, N., Nolan, D., Szabó, G., … Ybáñez, N. (2023). Journalistic Role Performance in Times of COVID. Journalism Studies, 24(16), 1977–1998. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2274584​​
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Mellado, C., Márquez-Ramírez, M., Van Leuven, S., Jackson, D., Mothes, C., Arcila-Calderón, C., Berthaut, J., Blanchett, N., Boudana, S., Chen, K. Y. N., Davydov, S., De Maio, M., Fahmy, N., Ferrero, M., Garcés, M., Hagen, L., Hallin, D. C., Humanes, M. L., Himma-Kadakas, M., … Viveros Aguilar, D. (2024). Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(1), 97-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231173890​​
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Karen McIntyre, Jesse Abdenour, Emmanuel Maduneme & Terje Skjerdal (2023). Investigating the Gap Between Journalists’ Role Conceptions and Role Performance in Rwanda and Ethiopia, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2230302
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Navarro, C; Abual, Y; Yousef, F; Alsabbagh, R. (2023). Understanding the use of information sources during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Kuwait. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 16 (2), 119 – 138
Amiel, P; Baisnée, O; Berthaut, J; Gousset, C; Hubé, N et al. (2023). Permanences and Mutations in the French and German Media Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Canadian Journal of Communication, 48 (3), 529-551
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Nicole Blanchett, Claudia Mellado, Colette Brin, Sama Nemat Allah & Cheryl Vallender (2023). Is It Us or Them? The Challenge of Getting Journalists to Participate in Academic Research, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216796
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Mellado, Claudia et al. (2023). Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television. Digital Journalism https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2191332
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Matthews, J; Zhao, X; Jackson, D; Thorsen, E; Mellado, C; Abuali, Y & Glück; A. (2023). Sourcing UK COVID-19 News: An Analysis of Sourcing Patterns of 15 UK News Outlets Reporting on COVID-19 Across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, Health Communication https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2162702
Humanes, María-Luisa; Alcolea-Díaz, Gema; López-del-Ramo, Joaquín; Mellado, Claudia (2023). “Performance of journalistic professional roles in digital native media news in Spain: Toward a journalistic micro-culture of its own”. Profesional de la información, v. 32, n. 2, e320225. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.mar.25
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Hallin, Dan; Mellado, Claudia & Mancini, Paolo (2021) The Concept of Hybridity in Journalism Studies. The International Journal of Press/Politics. DOI: 10.1177/19401612211039704.
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BOOKS
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Mellado, C & Hallin, D. (eds) (2025). Journalistic roles and news content. Global perspectives. London: Peter Lang (under contract)
Mellado, C & van Leuven, S. (eds) (2025).Sources in the news around the word. Bridging theory and practice. London: Peter Lang (under contract)
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Mellado, Claudia (Ed). (2021). Beyond Journalistic Norms. Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. London: New York.
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Pasti, S; Logunova, O; Davydov, S (2022). Journalistic Role Performance in the Russian Press: A Post-Soviet Model. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 30: 2.
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Mellado, Claudia; Márquez-Ramírez, Mireya; Mothes, Cornelia and Luisa Humanes, María (2021). News Beat Fluidity in Civic, Infotainment, and Service Role Performance Across Cultures. Journalism Practice 15 (9), 1240-1271.
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Humanes, María Luisa; Mellado, Claudia; Mothes, Cornelia; Silke, Henry; Raemy, Patric; Panagiotou, Nikos (2021). Assessing the Co-Occurrence of Professional Roles in the News: A Comparative Study in Six Advanced Democracies. International Journal of Communication 15, 3558–3579.
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Mellado, C; Humanes, M. L.; Scherman, A & Ovando, A (2021). Do digital platforms really make a difference in content? Mapping journalistic role performance in Chilean print and online news. Journalism 22(2), 358-377.
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Mellado, C., Mothes, C., Hallin, D., Humanes, M., Lauber, M., Mick, J., Silke, H., Sparks, C., Amado, A., Davydov, S., Olivera, D (2020). Investigating the Gap between Newspaper Journalists' Role Conceptions and Role Performance in Nine European, Asian, and Latin American Countries The International Journal of Press/Politics 25(4), 552-575
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Márquez, M., Mellado, C., Humanes, M. L., Amado, A., Beck, D., Davydov, S., … Wang, H. (2019). Detached or Interventionist? Comparing the Performance of Watchdog Journalism in Transitional, Advanced and Non-democratic Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics 25(1),53-75
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Scherman, Andrés., & Mellado, Claudia. (2019). La performance periodística en la cobertura deportiva: un estudio comparado de televisión, radio, prensa impresa y medios online en Chile. Palabra Clave 22(3), e2238
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Mellado, C (2019). Journalists’ Professional Roles and Role Performance. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.832
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Mellado, C; Humanes, M.L & Márquez-Ramirez, M (2018). The influence of journalistic role performance on objective reporting: A comparative study of Chilean, Mexican, and Spanish news. The International Communication Gazette 80(3) 250–272.
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Viveros, D & Mellado, C (2018). La Ley de Comunicación y su impacto en la materialización de los roles profesionales periodísticos en las noticias de la prensa de referencia en Ecuador. Comunicación y Sociedad 32, 1-27.
Mellado, C; Hellmueller, L, Márquez-Ramírez, M; Humanes,M L; Sparks, C; Stepinska, A; Pasti, S; Schielicke, Anna-Maria; Tandoc, E & Wang, H (2017). The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance. Journal of Communication 67(6), 944-967.
Hallin, D & Mellado, C (2017). Serving Consumers, Citizens, or Elites: Democratic Roles of Journalism in Chilean Newspapers and Television News. The International Journal of Press/Politics 23 (1), 24 – 43.
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Mellado, C. & Humanes, M. L. (2017). Homogeneity and plurality of the media agenda in Chile. A crosslongitudinal study of the national print press between 1990 and 2015. Communication & Society 30(3), 75-92.
Wang, H., Sparks, C., Lü, N., & Huang, Y. (2017). Differences within the Mainland Chinese press: A quantitative analysis. Asian Journal of Communication, 27(2), 154–171.
Mellado, C & Van Dalen, A (2017). Changing Times, Changing Journalism: A Content Analysis of Journalistic Role Performances in a Transitional Democracy. International Journal of Press/Politics 22(2), 244–263.
Mellado, C & Van Dalen, A (2017). Challenging the Citizen– Consumer Journalistic Dichotomy: A News Content Analysis of Audience Approaches in Chile. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 94 (1), 213 - 237.
Wang, H; Sparks, C & Huang, Y (2017). Popular Journalism in China: A study of China Youth Daily. Journalism. DOI: 10.1177/1464884917691987.
Wang, H; Sparks, C; Huang, Y & Lu, Nan (2017). A content analysis of the news reporting models in Chinese Press (Zhongguo chuantong meiti xinwen baodao moshi fenxi). Chinese Journal of Journalism and Communication (Guoji xinwen jie), Vol 39 (6):105-123.
Mellado, C; López Ramadán, P & Elórtegui, C (2017). (Para) ciudadanos o espectadores? Periodismo político chileno y sus modelos profesionales de aproximación a la audiencia. Palabra Clave 20(1), 14-46.
Stepinska, A; Jurga-Wosik, E; Adamczewska, K; Selcr, B. & Narozna, D (2016). Journalistic role performance in Poland. Central European Political Studies, 2, 37–52.
Hellmueller, L; Mellado, C; Bluebell, L & Huemmer, J (2016). The Contextualization of the Watchdog and Civic Journalistic Roles: Reevaluating Journalistic Role Performance in U.S. Newspapers Palabra Clave 19 (4), 1072-1100.
Mellado, C; Márquez, M, Mick, J; Oller, M & Olivera, D (2016). Journalistic performance in Latin America: A comparative study of professional roles in news content. Journalism 18 (9), 1087 - 1106.
Helmueller, L & Mellado, C (2016). Watchdogs in Chile and the United States: Comparing the Networks of Sources and Journalistic Role Performances. International Journal of Communication 10(2016), 3261–3280.
Mellado, C (2015). Professional Roles in news content: Six dimensions of journalistic role performance. Journalism Studies 16 (4), 596-614.
Hellmueller. L. & Mellado, C. (2015). Professional roles and news construction: a media sociology conceptualization of journalists’ role conception and performance. Communication & Society 28(3), 1- 11.
Hellmueller, L., & Mellado, C. (2015). Journalistic role performance and the network media agenda – A global perspective. In L. Guo, & M. McCombs (Eds.) Network Agenda Setting, Routledge Press.
Mellado, C & Lagos, C (2014). Professional Roles in News Content: Analyzing Journalistic Performance in the Chilean National Press. International Journal of Communication 8, 2090–2112.
Mellado,C & Van Dalen, A (2014). Between rhetoric and practice. Explaining the gap between role conception and performance in journalism. Journalism Studies 15 (6), 859-878.
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BOOKS
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Mellado, C; Hellmueller, L & Donsbach, W. (Eds). (2017). Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, models and measures. NY: Routledge.
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