Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

About Alfred HermidaAri HeinonenDavid DomingoJane B. SingerMarina VujnovicSteve PaulussenThorsten QuandtZvi Reich

David Domingo is a senior lecturer in online journalism at the Department of Communication Studies of Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona Spain. Domingo who has a Ph.D. in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona was a doctoral fellow at the University of Tampere (2004) and visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa (2007-2008). His research interests include online journalists' professional ideology and work routines as well as the dynamics of innovations such as participatory journalism and convergence. He is co-editor with Chris Paterson of Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (Peter Lang 2008). Ari Heinonen Ph.D. is journalism teacher and researcher in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere Finland. A former newspaper journalist he has focused his academic research on explorations of the changing nature of professionalism in journalism concepts of journalism in the new media era and journalistic ethics. He has directed and participated in a number of national and international research and development projects in these areas. Alfred Hermida is a digital media scholar journalism educator and online news pioneer. Since 2006 he has been an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia Canada. Hermida was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2005 and an IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty Fellow in 2010. An award-winning journalist who served for four years as a Middle East correspondent Hermida is a 16-year veteran of the BBC and was a founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal The Times of London The Guardian and NPR. Steve Paulussen Ph.D. is a part-time lecturer in journalism studies at both the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Antwerp as well as a senior researcher at the IBBT research group for Media & ICT (MICT) at Ghent University Belgium. In recent years he has participated in a number of projects on different aspects of todays digital media culture. His main research interests lie in the field of journalism studies where he has published on developments in online journalism newsroom convergence and the sociological profile of professional journalists. Between 2006 and 2010 he also was involved in a multi-disciplinary strategic research project on digital news trends in Flanders Belgium (FLEET). Thorsten Quandt Dr. phil. habil is a professor in Communication Studies / Interactive Media and Online Communication at the University of Hohenheim Germany. He has served as chair of the Journalism Studies Division in the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and as an officer in the Journalism Studies Division in the International Communication Association (ICA). His widely published research includes studies on online journalism media evolution network communication and computer games. Jane B. Singer is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa USA and a visiting professor in the School of Journalism Media and Communication at the University of Central Lancashire UK. From 2007 to 2010 she was the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism at Central Lancashire. Her research explores digital journalism including changing roles perceptions norms and practices. Before earning a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri Singer was the first news manager of Prodigy Interactive Services. She also has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor. Zvi Reich Ph.D. is a former journalist and a researcher in journalism studies at the Department of Communication Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel. His book Sourcing the News was published by Hampton Press in 2009. Reich's research interests focus on online news sociology of news the relations between reporters and sources authorship in journalism and the use of communication technologies in journalism. Two of his papers have won the top three papers prize of the Journalism Studies Division at ICA. Other research has appeared in Journalism Studies Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and Journalism. He is a member of the editorial board of Journalism Practice. Marina Vujnovic Ph.D. is an assistant professor at Monmouth University USA. Her primary fields of research are participatory journalism and new media studies media history and gender critical political economy and cultural studies. Additional research interests include international communication and the global flow of information as well as ethnicity and the media. She is the author of Forging the Bubikopf Nation: Journalism Gender and Modernity in Interwar Yugoslavia (Peter Lang 2009).