PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SECOND WAVE
ARTICLES
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
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
Stępińska, 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
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
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
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
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., Stępińska, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hallin, Dan; Mellado, Claudia & Mancini, Paolo (2021) The Concept of Hybridity in Journalism Studies. The International Journal of Press/Politics. DOI: 10.1177/19401612211039704.
BOOKS
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)
Mellado, Claudia (Ed). (2021). Beyond Journalistic Norms. Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. London: New York.
CONFERENCES
PRECONFERENCE: Journalistic Role Performance: Paths Taken and Pathways Forward. ICA Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2024.
El periodismo vigilante en España. Análisis de noticias en cuatro plataformas mediáticas. IX Congreso Internacional AEIC, May, 2024.
Ideales y práctica periodística. Divergencias entre concepciones de rol, percepción de su puesta en práctica y manifestación en las noticias. IX Congreso Internacional AEIC, May, 29-31
Sports News in Five Arab Countries: A Comparative Study of Platforms, Sources, and Journalistic Role Performance". IAMCR, Lyon, 2023.
Mapping Journalistic Role Performances Across Five Arab Countries, AEJMC, Washington DC, United States, 2023.
Desarrollo sostenible y funciones de los medios. Análisis de contenido de noticias desde la perspectiva de los roles periodísticos. VII Congreso Nacional TMIC-AEIC, November, 2023.
Cartografía de los roles periodísticos en el sistema mediático español. Análisis de contenido de noticias en prensa, radio, televisión y nativos digitales. XXIX Congreso Internacional Sociedad Española de Periodística (SEP), June, 2023
The Societal Context of Professional Practice: Examining the Impact of Politics and Economics on Journalistic Role Performance across 37 Countries. ICA Annual Conference, Toronto, May, 2023
Explaining gaps between journalists’ reported behaviours and role performance across Europe. ECREA Conference, Denmark, October, 2022.
Comparing Journalistic Roles and Role Performance in 37 Countries: Methodological Updates, Study Design, and Theoretical Underpinnings. ICA Annual Conference, Paris, May, 2022.
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across News Media Platforms. ICA Annual Conference, Paris, May, 2022.
The Relationship Between Ideals, Self-Reported Behaviors, and Journalistic Performance in an Age of Social Media. ICA Annual Conference, Paris, May, 2022.
Metaphors of Professional Roles. To be presented at ICA Annual Conference, Paris, May, 2022
The Concept of Hybridity in Journalism Studies. ICA Virtual Conference, Australia. May, 2020.
FIRST WAVE
ARTICLES
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Mellado, C (2019). Journalists’ Professional Roles and Role Performance. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.832
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.
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.
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.
BOOKS
Mellado, C; Hellmueller, L & Donsbach, W. (Eds). (2017). Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, models and measures. NY: Routledge.
CONFERENCES
News Beat Fluidity in Civic, Infotainment, and Service Role Performance Across Cultures. IAMCR July, Virtual Conference, 2021.
Misperceptions Beyond the Audience? Discrepancies between journalistic role performance and perceived role enactment. ICA Virtual Conference, May 27–31. 2021.
The Role Performance of Journalists as Political Actors: Comparing Differences in the Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures between Authoritarian Contexts and Transitional Democracies. ECPR, Wroclaw, Poland, 4-7 September, 2019.
The Interplay Between Performance, Reported Behaviours and Self-perception of Journalists. ECREA, Poznam, Poland, 12-13 September, 2019
The Gap Between Reported Journalistic Behaviors and Role Performance in the news. IAMCR Madrid, 7-11 July, 2019
Investigating the Gap Between Journalist’s Role Conception and Media Role Performance in Nine European, Asian and Latin American Countries. AEJMC, August 7-10, Toronto, 2019.
Ideal System Typologies, Convergence or Hybridization? Journalistic Role Performance in Six Advanced Democracies International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Washington DC, 2019.
Predicting the Passive and Active Performance of Watchdog Journalism: A Comparative Study of Transitional Democracies. International Communication Association Conference, Praga, 2018.
News Sources and Media Agenda. A Comparative Study of Five Latin American Transitional Democracies. International Communication Association Conference, Praga, 2018.
Between Reporting and Interpreting: Journalistic Voice in the News Media in Transitional Democracies. International Communication Association Conference, Praga, 2018.
Connecting Citizenry and Public Life in Transitional Democracies: The Performance of the Civic Journalistic Role. International Communication Association Conference, Praga, 2018.
Practices and Discourses of Journalistic Roles on Social Media. International Communication Association Conference, Praga, 2018.
Does Media Platform Really Matter? Mapping Journalistic Role Performance in Chilean Print and Online News. International Communication Association Conference, Praga, 2018.
The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance in 19 Countries. International Communication Association Conference, San Diego 2017.
The changes in Journalistic Role Performances in Transitional Democracy Explained. International Communication Association Conference, San Diego 2017.
Comparing journalistic role performance in Spain, the US, and Latin America. A study of audience approaches in news content. ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference 2017: Changing Audiences-Changing Journalism , Odense, 2017.
The influence of Journalistic Role Performance on Objective Reporting in Chilean, Mexican and Spanish News. AEJMC, Chicago, 2017
Challenging the Citizen– Consumer Journalistic Dichotomy: A News Content Analysis of Audience Approaches in Chile. International Communication Association Conference, Japan 2016.
The Networks of Journalistic Role Performances in Different Media Systems: The co-occurrence of professional roles and journalistic sources in Chile and the United States. International Communication Association Conference, Japan 2016.
Journalistic role performance: Findings from 11 countries. Presented at the International Communication Association 2015 Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Journalistic role performance in the 21st century: Linking normative stance of journalists to sourcing routines and organizational news coverage. Presented at the International Communication Association 2015 Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Comparative communication methodology: Assessing journalistic performance cross-nationally. Presented at the Re-inventing Journalism conference, Winterthur (Switzerland, 2015).
Studying journalistic performance in the digital age: What methodological advances we identify? Panel presented at the Re-Inventing Journalism Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland, 2015).
Visual TV analysis of journalistic role performance. Hispanic news in English and Spanish-language networks in the United States. Presented at the Re-inventing Journalism conference, Winterthur (Switzerland, 2015).
Watchdogs, Agenda Setters or Straight-down Publicists? From Professional Role Ideals to Role Performances in Mexican Journalism. Annual Conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), University of Quebec-Montreal (July 13-17, 2015)
The publicist role of Mexican journalists: post-authoritarian journalism in a captured-liberal model. XXXIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LASA), San Juan de Puerto Rico, EEUU, 2015
Can the watchdog ever retire? Reevaluating journalistic roles through their performance. Paper presented at the AEJMC conference in Montreal, August 2014.
Journalistic role performance around the Globe. Panel presented at International Communication Association (ICA) conference (Journalism Division), London, UK, panel, 2013.
Roles In News: Media Sociology Conceptualization of Journalistic Role Conception. Paper presented at the Future of Journalism 2013 conference, Cardiff 12- 13 September, 2013.
Validation of a multidimensional scale to measure audience approaches in news content. Challenging the citizen-consumer dichotomy. Paper presented at IAMCR. Dublin 25-29 June, 2013.
Professional Roles in News Content: Six Models of Journalistic Role Performance. Paper presented at the 63th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, London 17 - 21 June, 2013
Between rhetorics and practice. Explaining the role conception-performance gap among Chilean journalists. Paper presented at the 63th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, London 17 - 21 June, 2013.