Published Work

Members of the Center for Border & Global Journalism publish a variety of work and research on topics from government information policy and press-state relations to reporting in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and Latin America.

Refereed Articles

Kwon, K.H., Pellizzaro, K., *Shao, C. & Chadha, M. (2022). “I heard that COVID-19 was…”: Rumors, pandemic and psychological distance. American Behavioral Scientist (online first). doi: 10.1177/00027642211066026

Schroeder, J. & Chadha, M. (2021). Journalist, advertiser, or both: Reevaluating legal distinctions between journalistic and commercial speech in the networked era. Communication Law & Policy, 26(2), 222-264. doi: 10.1080/10811680.2021.1893106

Tsai, J., *Bosse, R., *Sridharan, N. & Chadha, M. (2020). Seeing 360-Degrees: Toward a Framework of Authentic Representation of Indigenous Communities Through Citizen-driven Reporting. Journalism (online first) doi: 10.1177/1464884920983261

Kwon, H., Chadha, M. & Wang, F. (2019). Proximity, anti-Muslim crime news, and networked framing of responsibility: Structural topic modeling of Twitter conversations on the Quebec shooting in 2017. International Journal of Communication, 13, 2652-2675.

Chadha, M. & Harlow, S. (2018). Bottomlines and deadlines: Examining local news startups’ content across different revenue-earning sites. Journalism Practice (online first). doi: 10.1080/17512786.2018.1551729

Harlow, S. & Chadha, M. (2018). Looking for community in community news: An examination of public-spirited content in online local news sites. Journalism (online first). doi: 10.1177/1464884918805255

Harlow, S. & Chadha, M. (2018). Indian entrepreneurial journalism. Journalism Studies (online first). doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2018.1463170

Kim, J.W., Chadha, M., & Gil de Zuniga, H. (2018). News media use and cognitive elaboration: The mediating role of media efficacy. Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social, 73, 168-183. doi: 10.4185/RLCS-2018-1251en

Kwon, K. H., *Priniski, H., & Chadha, M. (2018). Disentangling user samples: A supervised machine learning approach to proxy-population mismatch in Twitter research. Communication Methods and Measures, 12(2-3), 216-237. doi: 10.1080/19312458.2018.1430755

Kwon, H.K., Chadha, M., & *Pellizzaro, K. (2017). Proximity and terrorism news in social media: A construal-level theoretical approach to audience framing of terrorism in Twitter. Mass Communication & Society, 20(6), 869-894. doi: 10.1080/15205436.2017.1369545

Chadha, M. (2016). The neighborhood hyperlocal: New kid on the block or a chip off the old one? Digital Journalism, 4(6), 743-763. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2015.1096747

Chadha, M. (2016). What I am versus what I do: Work and identity negotiation in hyperlocal news startups. Journalism Practice, 10(6), 697-714. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1046994.

Chadha, M. & Harlow, S. (2015). The writing is on the wall, or is it? Exploring Indian activists’ beliefs toward online social media’s potential for social change. International Journal of Communication, 9, 672-693.

Chyi, H. I. & Chadha, M. (2012). News on new devices: Is multi-platform news consumption a reality? Journalism Practice, 6(4), 431-449. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2011.629125

Chadha, M., Avila, A. & Gil de Zuniga, H. (2012). Listening in: Building a profile of podcast users and analyzing their political participation. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 9(4), 388-401. doi: 10.1080/19331681.2012.717481

Book Chapter

Chadha, M. (2018). Indian news entrepreneurs and their digital news startups. In, S. Rao (Ed.), Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges and Perspectives. Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Oxford University Press (India).

Awards

Top Faculty Paper-Runner Up (2024): Relly, J.E. & Chadha, M. (2024). Media Entrepreneurial Resilience in Precarious Times: A Model. Presented in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Philadelphia, U.S., August 7-11, 2024.

Top Faculty Paper-Runner Up (2023): Chadha, M. & Relly, J.E. (2023). Bringing intercultural experiences to the mobile phone: A case study of Slack as a learning tool in intercultural communication in the U.S. and Yemen. Presented in the International Communication Association conference, Toronto, Canada, May 25-29, 2023.

Scholarship

Relly, J. & Chadha, M. (2025). Media entrepreneurship in precarious times: A framework for studying factors contributing to resilience and growth. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 27(4), 240-303. doi: 10.1177/15226379251369289

Chadha, M. & Relly, J.E. (2024). Supporting intercultural experiences in online teaching during wartime and humanitarian crises: Slack as a learning tool. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 79(2), 224-245. doi: 10.1177/10776958241234365

Chadha, M. (2023). Media entrepreneurship: Perceptions and motivations of Yemeni youth. Paper presented at International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference (online version), July 9-13.

Relly, J.E., Ajlan, S., Cheikh, S.B., Chadha, M., Ghaleb, S.S., & Arram, N. (2022). Beyond online classroom borders: A journalism exchange program between Yemeni and U.S. students and professors. Paper accepted for presentation at the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC), online, June 30.

Global Leadership

Member of the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies Governing Board

Dr. Jeannine E. Relly is a Professor in the School of Journalism at The University of Arizona with a courtesy appointment in the School of Government and Public Policy. She is an affiliated faculty member with the university’s Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, and the Graduate Human Rights Practice Program. She is the Director of Global Initiatives for the Center for Border and Global Journalism, a former Fulbright Scholar and has done outreach, training or research with partners in Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Mexico, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Yemen. Her research interests include studies of media and information access in various cultural, political, economic, and social environments around the world, including the U.S. She also has more than a dozen years of journalism experience. She is the author, co-author and co-editor of two books and a monograph and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is on the executive board of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) (2021-2022) and a former head of the International Communication Division.

Referred Research

Books

Baker, A., González de Bustamante, C., & Relly, J.E. (eds.). (forthcoming, 2022). Violence against women from the Global South: Reporting in the post #MeToo era. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South series.

González de Bustamante, C. & Relly, J.E. (July 2021). Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century. University of Texas Press.

Monograph

Relly, J.E., & González de Bustamante, C. (2017) Global and domestic networks advancing prospects for institutional and social change: The collective action response to violence against journalists. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 19(2), 84-152.

Referred Journal Articles

Relly, J. E., & Pakanati, R. (2021). Freedom of information lessons from India:

Collaboration, co-production and rights-based agenda building. Journalism, 22(4), 974-992.

Niu, S., & Relly, J. E. (2021). Framing China’s Belt and Road Initiative by US and Indian news media (2013–2018). Newspaper Research Journal, 42(2), 270-287.

Relly, J.E., & Pakanati, R. (2020) Deepening democracy through a social movement: Networks, information rights, and online-and-offline activism. International Journal of Communication, 14, 4760-4780.

Relly, J. E., Rabbi, M. F., Sabharwal, M., Pakanati, R., & Schwalbe, E.H. (2020). More than a decade in the making: A study of the implementation of India's Right to Information Act. World Development, 136, 105088.

Chordiya, R., Sabharwal, M., Relly, J. E., & Berman, E. M. (2020). Organizational protections for whistleblowers: a cross-national study. Public Management Review, 22(4), 527-552.

Relly, J. E., & Hutchens, M. J. (2019). The influence of “dark networks” on citizens’ confidence in democratic institutions in Mexico. The Social Science Journal, 56(4), 555-564.

Schwalbe, C. B., Relly, J. E., Cruikshank, S. A., & Schwalbe, E. H. (2019). Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists. Journalism Studies, 20(13), 1920-1939.

Relly, J. E., & Zanger, M. (2017). The enigma of news media development with multi-pronged ‘capture’: The Afghanistan case. Journalism, 18(10), 1233-1255. doi.org/10.1177/1464884916670933 Lead article

González de Bustamante, C. and Relly, J.E. (2016). The practice and study of journalism in zones of violence in Latin America: Mexico, a case study. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, 5(1), 55-73. doi.org/10.1386/ajms.5.1.51_1

Relly, J.E. & Schwalbe, C.B. (2016). How business lobby networks shaped the U.S. Freedom of Information Act: An examination of 60 years of Congressional testimony. Government Information Quarterly, 33(3), 404-416. doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2016.05.002

González de Bustamante, C., & Relly, J.E. (2016). Professionalism under the threat of violence: Journalism, self-reflexivity, and the potential for collective professional autonomy. Journalism Studies, 17(6), 684-702. doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2015.1006903

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). News media in a fragile state: Journalists’ perceptions of professional ethics in post-Ba'athist Iraq. Mass Communication and Society, 18(4), 471-497. doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2014.1001032

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). Democratic norms and forces of gatekeeping: A study of influences on Iraqi journalists’ attitudes toward government information access. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 92(2), 346-373.

doi.org/10.1177/1077699015573195

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). Professional role perceptions among Iraqi Kurdish journalists from a “state within a state.” Journalism, 16(8), 1085-1106. doi.org/10.1177/1464884914550973

González de Bustamante, C., & Relly, J.E. (2014). Journalism in times of violence: Social media use by U.S. and Mexican journalists working in northern Mexico. Digital Journalism, 2(4), 507-523. doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.882067

Relly, J.E., & González de Bustamante, C. (2014). Silencing Mexico: A study of influences on journalists in the northern states. International Journal of Press/Politics, 19(1), 108-131. doi.org/10.1177/1940161213509285

Relly, J.E., & Schwalbe, C.B. (2013). Watchdog journalism: India’s three largest English-language newspapers and the Right to Information Act. Asian Journal of Communication, 23(3), 284-301.

doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2012.729149

Relly, J.E. (2012). Freedom of information laws and global diffusion: Testing Rogers’s model. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 89(3),

431-457. doi.org/10.1177/1077699012447921

Relly, J.E. (2012). News media constraints and freedom of information legislation in developing countries. International Communication Research Journal, 47(1-2), 2-25.

Relly, J.E. (2012). Examining a model of vertical accountability: A cross-national study of the influence of information access on control of corruption. Government Information Quarterly, 29(3), 335-345.

doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.02.011

Relly, J.E., & Cuillier, D. (2010). A comparison of political, cultural, and economic indicators of access to information in Arab and non-Arab states. Government Information Quarterly, 27(4), 360-370.

doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2010.04.004

Fahmy, S., Relly, J.E., & Wanta, W. (2010). President’s power to frame stem cell views limited. Newspaper Research Journal, 31(3), 62-74.

Relly, J.E., & Sabharwal, M. (2009). Perceptions of transparency of government policymaking: A cross-national study. Government Information Quarterly 26 (1), 148-157. doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2008.04.002 The article was listed among Government Information Quarterly’s most cited articles since 2009 on the journal’s website.

Peer-reviewed chapters in scholarly books

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Banchero, P. (2022). Toward a framework for studying democratic media development and ‘media capture’: The Iraqi Kurdistan case (pp. 45-70). In Heloisa Pait (ed.), Media, development and democracy. Emerald Publishing.

Relly, J.E. (2011). Corruption, secrecy, and access-to-information legislation in Africa: A cross-national study of political institutions. In S.L. Maret (ed.), Research in Social Problems and Public Policy – Government Secrecy (pp. 325-352). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing.

Relly, J.E. (2011). Institutions of information access and constraint: The cases of China and India. In Y. Chen & P. Chu (eds.), E-Governance and cross boundary collaboration: Innovations and advancing tools (pp. 247-269). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global.

Relly, J.E. (2010). A comparative study of E-government and political indicators in developing nations with and without access-to-information laws. In C.G. Reddick (ed.), Comparative E-Government: An examination of EGovernment across countries (pp. 525-542). New York: Springer.

Invited chapters in scholarly books

Relly, J.E., & González de Bustamante, C. (forthcoming, 2022). Methodological issues

and challenges in conducting research in Mexico’s conflict zones. In R.A. González Macías & M. Echeverría (eds.), Media and politics in Mexican democratization: The post-authoritarian sign. Palgrave

Relly, J.E. (2021). Online harassment of journalists as a consequence of populism, mis/disinformation and impunity. In H. Tumber and S. Waisbord (eds.), Routledge companion to media, misinformation and populism. Routledge.

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2020). Democratic norms and forces of gatekeeping: A study of influences on Iraqi journalists’ attitudes toward government information access. In S. Fahmy (ed.), Virtual theme collection: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly in the MENA region. Reprint from 2015 Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly article, 92(2), 346-373.

Relly, J.E., & González de Bustamante, C. (2017). Global violence against journalists: The power of impunity and emerging initiatives to evoke social change. In H. Tumber & S. Waisbord (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights.

Relly, J.E. and González de Bustamante, C. (2016). Periodistas en peligro: un estudio de influencias sobre periodistas en el norte de México (Journalists in danger: A study of the influences on journalists in Northern Mexico). In C. del Palacio Montiel (ed.), Medios de comunicación, poder y violencia en las regiones de México (Communication media, power and violence in the regions of Mexico]. Veracruz, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana. (Spanish translation of 2014 peer-reviewed journal article in International Journal of Press/Politics).

González de Bustamante, C. and Relly, J.E. (2016). Use of social media along the northern Mexico border in violent times. In B. Franklin & S.A. Elridge (eds.), Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Relly, J.E., and Sabharwal, M. (2015). Perceptions of transparency of government policymaking: A cross-national study. In B.G. Peters and J. Pierre (eds.), Public Administration. Sage. Reprinted from 2009 peer-reviewed journal article in Government Information Quarterly.

Awards

Co-author recipient, Latin American Communication Research Award, International Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication for “Costa Rican Journalism at a Crossroads: Emerging Concerns Over Press Freedoms and Economic Precarity.” (August 2025)

Co-author recipient, Top Faculty Paper Award (2^nd Place), Media Management, Economics, & Entrepreneurship Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication for “Media Entrepreneurial Resilience in Precarious Times: A Model.” (August 2024)

Co-author recipient, 2023 International Communication Association Global Communication and Social Change Division, Best Faculty Paper (runner-up), ‘Bringing Intercultural Experiences to the Mobile Phone: A Case Study of Slack as a Learning Tool in Intercultural Communication in the U.S. and Yemen.’ International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. (May 2023)

Co-author recipient, 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication James A. Tankard Jr. Book Award, for Surviving Mexico – Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press).

Co-author recipient, 2022 AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Book Award, for Surviving Mexico – Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press).

Co-author recipient, Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, 2022 winner for best book on journalism and mass communication based on original research published in 2021 for Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press).

Scholarship

González de Bustamante, C., Relly, J.E., Bravo, V., & DalBen Furtado, S. (2026). Emerging concerns about press freedoms and economic precarity in Costa Rico (pp. 37-42). In S. Harlow, Sallie Hughes, & C. González de Bustamante (eds.), The Worlds of Journalism: Safety, Professional Autonomy, and Resilience among Journalists in Latin America. Austin, Texas: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, The University of Texas at Austin. (English, Spanish and Portuguese)

González de Bustamante, C., & Relly, J. E. (2026). Potential for and challenges to resilience. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 50(1), 6-8.

González de Bustamante, C., Relly, J.E., Ammina Kothari, & Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.). (forthcoming, 2026). ‘The Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders.’ Routledge.

González de Bustamante, C., Relly, J.E., Bravo, V., & Dal Ben Furtado, S., & Fuchs, G. “Costa Rican Journalism at a Crossroads: Emerging Concerns Over Press Freedoms and Economic Precarity,” International Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco (August 2025). Top paper award for the Latin American Research Award.

Panelist. “Navigating the Ethical Minefield: Journalism Education in a Time of Social Change, 7^th World Journalism Education Congress, San Francisco. (August 2025)

Relly, J.E., & Chadha, M. “Factors Contributing to Media Entrepreneurial Resilience and Growth in Two Authoritarian States,” International Communication Association Conference, Global Communication and Social Change and Journalism Studies divisions, Denver, Colorado (June 2025).

Slavtcheva-Petkova, V., Ramaprasad, J. with Maheshwari, M., Weglinska, A., Konarska, K. Hoxha, A., Relly, J., Springer, N., Moreira, S.V., Visnovsky, J., González de Bustamante, C. (2025). Safety and work-related risks (pp. 17-24). In T. Hanitzsch, F. Hanusch, C. Lauerer, & V. Slavtcheva-Petkova (eds.), Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3) Report, Journalism under duress.

Chadha, M., & Relly, J.E. “Media Entrepreneurial resilience in precarious times: A model,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelophia, Pennsylvania. (August 2024). Second place in the top faculty paper award competition in the Media Management, Economics, & Entrepreneurship Division.

González de Bustamante, C., Relly, J.E., Bravo, V., & Dal Ben Furtado, S. “Declining press freedoms and increasing precarity among journalists in Costa Rico,” International Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelophia, Pennsylvania. (August 2024)

González de Bustamante, C. (presenter), Relly, J.E., Bravo, V., & Dal Ben Furtado, S. “El caso de Costa Rica: Worlds of Journalism Study, Latin American Studies Association Congress, Bogota, Colombia. (June 2024)

Relly, J.E., & González de Bustamante, C., & Lalwani, S. (2024). Digital networks and collaborations: Addressing violence against journalists and building resilience. In S. Banjac, D. Cheruiyot, J. Swart and S. Eldridge II (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2^nd ed.). Routledge.

Relly, J.E. (2024). Transparency. In L. Macedo Pinto de Sousa and Susana Duarte Coroado (eds.), Encyclopedia of Corruption. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Relly, J.E., & González de Bustamante, C. (2024). Violence, trauma, and reflexivity: Methodological issues and challenges in conducting research in Mexico’s conflict zones (pp. 155-178). In R.A. González Macías & M. Echeverría (eds.), Media and politics in post-authoritarian Mexico: The continuing struggle for democracy. Palgrave. The edited volume received the Knudson Latin America Prize from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2025.

Relly, J.E., & Ben Cheikh, S. (with Baker, A., González de Bustamante, C., Rodrigues, C. Bahfen, N., Winarnita, M., Height, G., Mintarsi, A.R., & Byrne, J.). “#MeToo: Unifying Global North and Global South media approaches to addressing violence against women,” Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia. (December 2023)

Baker, A., González de Bustamante, C., Relly, J.E. Book launch: Violence against women from the Global South: Reporting in the post #MeToo era. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South series. Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia. (December 2023).

González de Bustamante, C., & Relly, J.E. “Diversity & equity in news, newsrooms and classrooms, ” Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia. (December 2023)

Relly, J.E., & Ben Cheikh, S. “After the Spring: Collective & Everyday Resistance to Gender-based Violence in Times of Conflict in Libya, Syria and Yemen,” International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. (May 2023)

Chadha, M., & Relly, J.E. “Bringing Intercultural Experiences to the Mobile Phone: A Case Study of Slack as a Learning Tool in Intercultural Communication in the U.S. and Yemen,” International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. Top paper runner-up award from the Global Communication & Social Change Division of International Communication Association. (May 2023)

Chair and moderator. “Development of media education and media literacy in Central Asia.” Second Central Asia Media Web Symposium, al-Farabi Kazakh National University and Institute for International Journalism, Ohio University. (April 5-April 6, 2023)

Relly, J.E., Rabbi, F., Jha, H., Pakanati, R., Sabharwal, M. (2023). Integrating social equity into Right to Information and Access to Information laws and policies: Drawing on the Indian Case. In Zafarullah, H., & Siddiquee, N.A. (eds). Open government & freedom of information: Policy and Practice in Asia and the Middle East. Routledge.

Ben Cheikh, S. & Relly, J.E. (2023). Online activism in contexts of war: Is there a #MeToo echo in Libya, Syria and Yemen? In A. Baker, C. González de Bustamante and J.E. Relly, Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the Post #MeToo Era. Palgrave Macmillan.

Relly, J.E., & Ben Cheikh, S. “Covering #MeToo and feminist movements in the Global South.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Detroit, Michigan. (August 2022)

Co-speaker (with Mary Feeney), “Informed learning in Global Media Studies.” Creating Informed Learners in the Classroom Symposium (virtual), Purdue University. (July 2022)

Relly, J.E., Ajlan, S., Ben Cheikh, S., Chadha, M., Shehab Ghaleb, S., & Arram, N. “Beyond online classroom borders: A journalism exchange program between Yemeni and U.S. students and professors.” World Journalism Education Council Conference (virtual). (June 2022)

Chair, “Thirty years of independence: Media education and research in Central Asia.” Central Asia Media Symposium. (April 2022)

Baker, A., González de Bustamante, C., & Relly, J.E. (eds.). (August 2023). Violence against women from the Global South: Reporting in the post #MeToo era. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South series.

González de Bustamante, C. & Relly, J.E. (July 2021). Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century. University of Texas Press. Recipient of three national awards.Relly, J.E., &, Chadha, M. (2025). Media entrepreneurship in precarious times: A framework for studying factors contributing to resilience and growth. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 27(4), 240-303.

Chadha, M., & J.E. Relly. (2024). Supporting intercultural experiences in online teaching during wartime and humanitarian crises: Slack as a learning tool. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 79(2), 224-245.

Relly, J.E., & Waisbord, S. (2022). Why collective resilience in journalism matters: A call to action in global media development. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, 11(2), 163-188.

Keynote speaker (with Celeste González de Bustamante), “Book Presentation: Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century.” The Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, UA SBS Mexico Initiatives, UNAM-Tucson Center for Mexican Studies, Center for Border and Global Journalism. (October 2021)

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Banchero, P. "Toward a framework for studying democratic media development and ‘media capture:' The Iraqi Kurdistan case." Media Sociology Symposium (virtual). (August 2021)

Keynote speaker (with Celeste González de Bustamante), “Censura y silencio: Cómo la comunidad periodística está resistiendo formas de represión.” Simposio de Antropología e Historia. Universidad de Sonora, Mexico. (April 2021)

Relly, J. E., & Pakanati, R. (2021). Freedom of information lessons from India: Collaboration, co-production and rights-based agenda building. Journalism, 22(4), 974-992.

Niu, S., & Relly, J. E. (2021). Framing China’s Belt and Road Initiative by US and Indian news media (2013–2018). Newspaper Research Journal, 42(2), 270-287.

Relly, J.E. “Methodological challenges for studying journalism around the world.” Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference (virtual). (August 2020)

Chordiya, R., Sabharwal, M., Relly, J. E., & Berman, E. M. (2020). Organizational protections for whistleblowers: a cross-national study. Public Management Review, 22(4), 527-552.

Global Leadership

Advisory Board Member, Borderlanders/Fronterizos: Reimagining the US-Mexico Border Journal. (2026-present)
Advisory Board Member, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, (2022-2023)
Chair, Elected Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility, and Executive Board member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication – core areas of Committee were diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging; freedom of expression; ethics; media criticism and accountability; and public service (2021-2022)
Faculty, Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support Faculty Network (2020 – 2025)
Affiliated Faculty / Executive Board Member, Human Rights Practice Program (2017 – present / 2017 – 2019)
Fulbright Specialist Roster. (2015 – 2022)
Expert/Consultant Roster, Center for International Media Assistance. (2020 – present)
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2014-present)
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies (2006 – present)

She is co-author of Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging: Latin Americans in London (Palgrave, 2020) and co-editor of The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture (Willey, 2019). Recent book chapters include "Understanding Ethnic Journalism in an Extinguishing Print News Media Landscape: Japanese-language Newspapers in Brazil" (Palgrave, 2021), “Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese-Brazilians in Tokyo and São Paulo” (Sage, 2019), “Hashtag Jóvenes Latinos: Challenges and opportunities of teaching civic advocacy journalism in ‘glocal’ contexts” (Peter Lang, 2018), “The transnational restructuring of communication and consumption practices. Latinos in the urban settings of global cities” (Routledge, 2017). Recent reports include: Hispanic Media Today. Serving Bilingual and Bicultural Audiences in the Digital Age (Democracy Fund, 2019), La circulación de la cultura en español en las ciudades globales de los Estados Unidos: Los Ángeles, Nueva York, Miami (Hispanic Cultural Circuits in Urban Context of Global Cities: Los Angeles, New York, Miami) (RIE, 2019), and Los Latinos y las industrias culturales en español en Estados Unidos (Latinos and Spanish-language Cultural Industries in the U.S.) (RIE, 2015). Recent academic journal articles: Mapping digital-native US Latinx news: Beyond geographical boundaries, language barriers, and hyper-fragmentation of audiences, Migration Journalism: Production and consumption of narratives about mobility in uncertain times and digital platforms era (ISOJ, 2021).

Published Work

Books

Sanchez, A. & Retis, J. (Eds.)(2022) Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English, New York: Routledge.

Puente, T., Retis, J., Aguilar, A, and Ayala, J. (Eds.) (2022) Reporting on Latino Communities: A Guide for Journalists, New York: Routledge.

Román, P. and Retis, J. (2020). Latin Americans in London: Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging, London: Palgrave. ISBN 978-3-030-53444-8.

Retis, J. and Tsagarousianou, R. (Eds.) (2019). The Handbook on Diasporas, Media, and Culture. Hoboken, NJ: Willey Blackwell. IAMCR. ISBN: 978-1-119-23670-2.

Retis, J., Lamuedra, M. and García, A. (2010) Los informativos diarios en BBC y TVE. Los discursos de sus profesionales y receptores. (Daily Newscasts in BBC and TVE. Professionals & audiences’ discourses), Madrid: Ediciones de la Torre. ISBN: ISBN 978-84-7960-430-1.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Scholarly Books

Retis, J. & Román-Velazquez, P. (2021). Latin Americans in London: Mapping digital diasporas in: David Dalton & David Ramírez (Eds.) Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement, Boston: Brill.

Retis, J. (2021). “Latino News Media” in: Edition. Borchard, G. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Journalism. 2^nd New York: Sage (forthcoming).

Retis, J. (2021). “¿Por qué los centroamericanos huyen en caravana hacia EE.UU.?” La representación discursiva de los ‘otros’ inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la prensa española, (“Why do Central Americans flee to the US in a caravan?" Discursive representation of the ‘other’ Latin American immigrants in the Spanish press) in: Antonio Bañón (Editor). Discurso lingüístico y migraciones (Linguistic Discourse and Migrations). Madrid: Editorial Arco (forthcoming).

Retis, J. (2021). Understanding Ethnic journalism in an extinguishing print news media landscape: How the oldest Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil confronts generational change”. In: Gladkova, A. and Jamil, S. (Eds.) Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Palgrave.

Gonzalez, C. and Retis, J. (2019). “Latina/o Millennials in a post-TV network world: Anti-stereotypes in the transmedia edutainment web TV series East Los High.” In: Christopher Campbell (Ed.) Media, Myth and Millennials: Critical perspectives on race and culture, New York: Lexington Books, 157-178. ISBN: 978-1-4985-7735-9

Retis, J. (2019) Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese-Brazilians in Tokyo and São Paulo. In: Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn and Radhika Gajjala (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Media & Migration, Sage, 297-308. ISBN: 9781526447210.

Retis, J. (2019) Homogenizing heterogeneity in transnational contexts. Contemporary Latin American Diasporas and the Media in the global North. In: Jessica Retis and Roza Tsagarousianou (Eds.) The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, Willey-Blackwell, 115-136. ISBN: 978-1-119-23670-2.

Tsagarousianou, R. & Retis, J. (2019) Diasporas, Media, and Culture. Exploring Dimensions of Human Mobility and Connectivity in the Era of Global Interdependency. In: Jessica Retis and Roza Tsagarousianou (Eds.) The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, Hoboken, NJ: Willey Blackwell, 1-20. ISBN: 978-1-119-23670-2.

Retis, J. (2018). Hashtag Jóvenes Latinos: Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Civic Advocacy Journalism in “Glocal” Contexts. In: Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski (Eds.) Learning from Diverse Latina/o Communities: Social Justice Approaches to Civic Engagement. Palgrave, 229-250. ISBN: 978-1433147265.

Retis, J. (2018). La condición transnacional de los latinoamericanos: reflexiones en torno a las industrias culturales, las políticas públicas y las estrategias comerciales (Latin Americans in transnational contexts: reflections on cultural industries, public policies and commercial strategies), in Francisco Sierra, Franceso Maniglio and Daniela Favaro Garrossini (Eds.), Políticas de Comunicación e Integración Económica Intercontinental, (Policies of Communication and Intercontinental Economic Integration), Quito: CIESPAL, ULEPPIC, 301-311. ISBN: 978-9978551790.

Gonzalez, C. and Retis, J. (2017). Underrepresented Majorities: Latin@s and the Media in the Digital Age. In: Christopher Campbell (Ed.) The Routlege Companion to Media and Race. New York: Routlege, 210-221. ISBN: 978-1138020726.

Retis, J. (2017). The transnational restructuring of communication and consumption practices: Latinos in the urban settings of global cities. In: Maria Elena Cepeda and Dolores Casillas (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media, New York: Routlege, 22-36. ISBN: 978-0415717793.

Associate Editor

Retis, J. (2020-2023). Associate Editor for Latin America. Subervi, F. and Roy, S. (Co-Editors-in-Chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communications (Oxford University Press). Contract signed. Invited by Co-Editors-in-Chief to participate in a 3-year publishing project. Commissioning and editing contributions from Latin America.

Referred Journal Articles

Rets, J., Kanashro, L. & Domenack W. (2021). Retos metodológicos en el estudio del sistema de medios informativos en el Perú, Cuadernos Info, 50, 1-21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.50.27321

Retis, J. and Cueva-Chacón, L. (2021). Mapping Digital-native U.S. Latinx News: Beyond Geographical Boundaries, Language Barriers, and Hyper-fragmentation of Audiences, International Symposium on Online Journalism Journal, Spring 2021, 35-63.

Available at: https://isoj.org/research/mapping-digital-native-u-s-latinx-news-beyond-geographical-boundaries-language-barriers-and-hyper-fragmentation-of-audiences/

Retis, J. and Cogo, D. (2021). Periodismo de migraciones: Producción y consumo de narrativas sobre movilidad humana en tiempos de incertidumbre y plataformas digitales. Estudios del Mensaje Periodístico Vol. 27 Num. 1 (January-March 2021)

Cardenas, L., Bustamante C. and Retis, J. (2019). To tweet for solidarity or just report the news? Comparing social media strategies of Spanish language and English language TV networks. Television and New Media, 21(3), March, 1-24. DOI: 10.1177/1527476419893792.

Ferrández Ferrer, A. and Retis, J. (2019). Ethnic Minority Media: Between Hegemony and Resistance. Journal for Alternative and Community Media, Vol. 3, Num 3, 1-13.

Schmitz-Weiss, A. and Retis, J. (2018). ‘I don’t Like Math, That’s Why I am in Journalism’: Journalism Students Perceptions and Myths about Data Journalism. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 28(1) 1-13. DOI 10.1177/1326365X18780418

Retis, J. (2018). Inmigrantes latinoamericanos en ciudades globales: aproximaciones interdisciplinarias en el análisis de las practices comunicativas, mediáticas y culturales (Latin American immigrants in global cities: interdisciplinary approaches in the analysis of communicative, media and cultural practices). Contratexto, num 30, 20-40. ISSN 1025-9945 DOI 10.26439/contratexto2018.n030.3147

Retis, J. (2017). Consumers or Citizens? Practices of cultural consumption by Latin American Immigrants in Spain. Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo, vol. 14, num. 41, Setembro/Dezembro 2017, 53-83. DOI 10.18568

Retis, J. (2016). The Portrayal of Latin American Immigrants in the Spanish Mainstream Media: Fear of Compassion?. The International Journal of Hispanic Media, vol. 9, October, 32-45.

Guest Editor Peer Review Academic Journals

Zanforlin, S. and Retis, J. (2021) Guest Editors. Special Issue: Migrations, Diasporas and Media: Human Rights and (In)mobility during the Pandemic, Journal of Global Diaspora and Media (forthcoming)

Jamil, S. and Retis, J. (2021) Guest Editors. Special Issue: Media Discourses and Representation of Marginalized Communities in Multicultural Societies, Journalism Practice (forthcoming)

Retis, J. and Cogo, D. (2021) Guest Editors. Special Issue: News Media Coverage of Immigration, Estudios del Mensaje Periodístico (Studies about Journalistic Message).

Retis, J. and Ferrandez, A. (2019) Guest Editors. Special Issue: Ethnic Minority Media: Between Hegemony and Resistance for Journal for Alternative and Community Media, Vol. 3, Num 3.

Academic Monographs

Retis, J. (2019). Hispanic Media Today: Serving bilingual and bicultural audiences in the digital age. Washington: Democracy Fund. Available at: https://www.democracyfund.org/publications/hispanic-media-today

Retis, J., Badillo, A. and Lopez Cobo, A. (2019). La circulación de la cultura en español en las ciudades globales de los Estados Unidos: Los Ángeles, Nueva York, Miami. (Spanish-language culture circuits in U.S. global cities: Los Angeles, New York, Miami.), Madrid: Real Instituto Elcano. ISBN: 978-84-92983-18-6. Available at: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_es/publicacion?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_es/publicaciones/circulacion-cultura-espanol-estados-unidos-los-angeles-nueva-york-miami

Retis, J. and Badillo, A. (2015). Los latinos y las industrias culturales en español en Estados Unidos. (Latinos and Spanish-language Cultural Industries in the United States). Madrid: Real Instituto Elcano. ISSN: 1699-3504. Available at: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_es/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_es/zonas_es/lengua+y+cultura/dt01-2015-retis-badillo-latinos-industrias-culturales-en-espanol-en-eeuu

Retis, J. (2011). Estudio exploratorio sobre el consumo cultural de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España: el contexto transnacional de las prácticas culturales. (Exploratory Research on Cultural Consumption of Latino Immigrants in Spain: transnational context of cultural practices). Madrid: Fundación Alternativas. ISBN: 978-84-92957-60-6. Available at: https://www.fundacionalternativas.org/cultura-y-comunicacion/documentos/documentos-de-trabajo/estudio-sobre-el-consumo-cultural-de-los-latinoamericanos-de-espana

Retis, J. (Ed.) (2007). Inmigración y medios de comunicación. Aproximaciones y propuestas para las buenas prácticas periodísticas. (Immigration and the Media: Approaches and Proposals for Journalists), Madrid: Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Proyecto Equal Fondo Social Europeo, Madrid Entre Dos Orillas. NIPO: 201-07-349-0. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/3202741/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_y_medios_de_comunicaci%C3%B3n_Aproximaciones_y_propuestas_para_las_buenas_pr%C3%A1cticas_period%C3%ADsticas

Retis, J. (2006) Espacios mediáticos de la inmigración en Madrid: Génesis y evolución. (Media Spaces of Immigration in Madrid: Genesis and Evolution), Madrid: Observatorio de las Migraciones y la Convivencia Intercultural de la Ciudad de Madrid. ISSN: 1887-2662. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/720908/Espacios_medi%C3%A1ticos_de_la_inmigraci%C3%B3n_en_Madrid_G%C3%A9nesis_y_Evoluci%C3%B3n

Awards

Award 3rd Top Research Paper Award. Media Communication and Journalism. Paper “Qué Pasa with American News Media? How Digital-Native Latinx News Serves Community Information Needs Using Messaging Apps,” Latin American Studies Association, Media, Communication & Culture Section, 2025.

Scholarship

Retis, J, Barranquero, A. & Magallanes, C. (Eds.) (forthcoming). The Handbook of Journalism and Social Change, London: De Gruyter (estimated publication Spring 2027)

Retis, J. & García P. (forthcoming). Migration Vulnerability: Latin Americans in France, in: Porque, L. (Eds.). Vulnerability of Migrants and Refugees in Areas of Transit and Destination, Quito: CLACSO Ediciones. Retis, J. & Román, P. (forthcoming). British Colombianidades. Claiming Belonging in Translocal Spaces in Global cities, in: Cepeda, M., Ochoa, A., Harford, J. & Londoño, J. (Eds.). U.S. Colombian Studies, Duke University Press.

Retis, J. & Cueva Chacón, L. (2025). “Listening” to the Community: Latinx Digital-Native Media Outlets’ Engaging Practices During Electoral Processes, International Association for Mass Communication Research, Singapore, July 13–17.

Retis, J. & Mercado, A. (2025). La Frontera Revisited: Analyzing Cross-Border Collaborations and Narratives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, International Communications Association, Denver, June 13–16.

Retis, J. (2024). Spanish-English Bilingual Journalism Practices: From College to the Newsroom, Association for Education in Journalism and Communication, Philadelphia, August 8-10.

Retis, J. & García P. (2024). Latin American immigrants in France: Vulnerability in Diasporic Contexts, Latin American Studies Association, Bogotá, Colombia, June 12-15.

Retis, J. & Ferrandez, A. (2024). Genesis, technological transformations and innovative practices of transnational media spaces: Latin American diasporas in Spain, Spanish Association for Communication Research, Murcia, Spain, May 28-31

Román, P. García, A. & Retis, J. (2024). Positioning Latin America’s Urban Margins: Where and how does Latin America live?, in: Richmond, M. & Kopper, M. (Eds.) Subjectivity at the Margins of the Latin American City, London: Berghahn. doi.org/10.3167/9781805396956

Retis, J. (2024). The critical understanding of Latina/o/x/s and the News Media in the global scenarios, in: Rodriguez, C., Magallanes, C. Marroquín, A. & Rincón, O. (Eds.). Mujeres de la Comunicación, 2nd Edition, Bogota: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung FES Comunicación Invited by the book editors to contribute with a book chapter.

Retis, J. (2023). Latinos à Paris: Exploring communicative spaces of Latin American contemporary diasporas in France, International Association for Mass Communication Research, Lyon, July 9-13.

Retis, J. (2023). Transnational Media Communication Practices for Latino/a/x/s in the Global North. Panel: Media Technologies for/against Migrants, International Communications Association, Toronto, May 27.

Retis, J. (2023). Creating Transnational Spaces across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Panel: Digital borders: Between technological infrastructures and media imaginaries, International Communications Association, Toronto, May 27, 2023.

Retis, J. & De Maio, M. (2023). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the News: How US Mainstream Media Depicted a Young Latina Politician in the Digital Age, International Communications Association, Toronto, May 25-28.

Retis, J. (2020-2023). Associate Editor for Latin America. Subervi, F. and Roy, S. (Co-Editors-in-Chief) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communications (Oxford University Press). A 3-year project. Commissioned and edited contributions from Latin America.

Retis, J. & Cueva Chacón (2022). Bilingual practices in transnational contexts: A glimpse to the challenges for digital-native Latino media in the United States, IAMCR Beijing, July 11-12.

Retis, J. & Ferrández. A. (2022). Madrid and its transnational connections with Latin America: Towards a mapping of digital-native Latino media in the Spanish Capital, Spanish Association of Communication Research (AE-IC), Barcelona, June 28- July 1.

Retis, J. & Roman, P. (2022). “British Latinidades: Social media activism in struggles against gentrification” "Media and Communication in Global Latinidades" Pre-Conference at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, May 25.

Retis, J. (2022). Bilingual Journalism Education in the United States: an (in)visible area of research in the American Academe, 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, May 26-29.

Retis, J., Agosto, L. Zarate, Y. & Lopera, A. (2022). "La pedagogía del periodismo colaborativo en las Américas: reflexiones sobre estrategias de enseñanza/aprendizaje en contextos digitales" LASA, San Francisco, May, 5-8.

Retis, J. (2022). Latinx Studies contributions to bilingual journalism programs in the United States, LASA, San Francisco, May, 5-8.

Retis, J. & Román-Velazquez, P. (2022). Latin Americans in London: Digital Diasporas and Social Activism, in: David Dalton & David Ramírez (Eds.) Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement, Boston: Brill, 100-118. ISBN: 978-90-04-51967-1

Retis, J. & Revilak, S. (2022). “¿Why do Central Americans flee in caravans towards the US? The discursive presentation of the ‘other’ Latin American immigrants in the Spanish press, in: David Dalton & David Ramírez (Eds.) Refugees In Conflict and Post-Conflict. Media, Artistic and Political Representations, Colección Studies in Post-Conflict Cultures, vol.12. London: Critical Cultural and Communications Press.

Retis, J. & Barranquero. (2022). Discourses and Counter-Discourses on Race and Coloniality Towards a Journalism-Other in Latin America in: Subervi, F. & Roy, S. (Eds.) Oxford Encyclopedia on Race, Ethnicity and Communications, Boston: Oxford.

Retis, J. (2021). Latinx and the public media in the United States, XII International ULEPICC Conference: The Future of Public Media. Access, Information, Equity and Development, UNAM, Mexico City, October 11-13.

Retis, J. (2021). "Los retos del periodismo bilingüe en Estados Unidos en la era post-digital." I Congreso Innovacom. Nuevos y viejos desafíos del periodismo. Universitat de Barcelona, October 5-6. Virtual Conference.

Retis, J., Aguilar, A. and Castañeda, L. (2021). Latinas in Journalism. Examining their biggest challenges and opportunities, AEJMC, August 4-5, 2021. Virtual Conference.

Retis, J. (2021). “Examining the Mexican American vote and the news media in Arizona” paper at a panel Latinx voters and political participation in times of polarization: Transnational communication, identities and experiences in the 2020-2021 US election and transition, IAMCR, July 11-15. Virtual Conference.

Retis, J. (2021). “Mediating language discrimination: the case of Japanese ethnic media in São Paulo.” Paper at the panel Examining mediascapes of hegemony and resistance in Latin Jessica Retis, Ph.D. 2025 | 24 America: critical perspectives on race, ethnicity and communication” ICA, MAY 27-31. Virtual Conference.

Retis, J., Kanashiro, L. & Domenack (2021). Medios informativos en el Perú: Dinámicas de sobrevivencia y estrategias empresariales en tiempos de pandemia, Latin American Studies Association Conference, May 26-29. Virtual Conference.

Retis, J. & Cueva Chacón, L. (2021). Mapping digital-native U.S. Latinx news: Beyond geographical boundaries, language barriers, and hyper-fragmentation of audiences, 22nd International Symposium on Online Journlaism, University of Texas at Austin, April 26-30. Virtual conference.

Retis, J. & Roman Patria, P. (2021). "British Latinidad/es: Diasporic Formations & Narratives of Belonging amongst Latin Americans in London", Migrant Belongings. Digital Practices and the Every Day, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. April 21-23. Virtual Conference.

Román, P. and Retis, J. (2021). Latin Americans in London: Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging, London: Palgrave. ISBN 978-3-030-53444-8.

Retis, J. & Revilak, S. (2021). “¿Por qué los centroamericanos huyen en caravana hacia EE.UU.?” La representación discursiva de los ‘otros’ inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la prensa española, Discurso lingüístico y migraciones, Madrid: Editorial Arco.

Retis, J. and Cogo, D. (2021). Periodismo de migraciones: Producción y consumo de narrativas sobre movilidad humana en tiempos de incertidumbre y plataformas digitales. Estudios del Mensaje Periodístico, Vol. 27 Num. 1 (January-March 2021)

Retis, J. and Kanashiro, L. (2020). “Peruvian Journalists in times of COVID: dynamics and strategies during the pandemic.” Paper presented at the panel Precariousness and survival in times of pandemic” LASA, May 26-29. Virtual Conference.

Retis, J. (2020). “Understanding Ethnic Journalism in an Extinguishing Print News Media Landscape: Japanese-language Newspapers in Brazil” Paper presented at the panel DeWesternizing Media and Cultural Studies, New Discourse Practices in the Digital World, XII International Media Readings in Moscow, University of Moscow, November 19-12.

Retis, J., García-Vargas, A. & Román-Velazquez, P. (2020). “Los retos de la comunicación en las ciudades latinoamericanas y sus ciudades diaspóricas: ¿dónde y cómo vive Latinoamérica?” Paper presented at the XV Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC) International Conference, Medellín, Colombia, November 9-13.

Retis, J. (2020). “Bilingual Journalism in the Digital Age. Developing an Interdisciplinary Agenda for Research & Community-Service Pedagogies” Paper presented at the 1st International Symposium on Research in Communication, Education and New Technologies, SIICET 2020, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, November 9-13.

Retis, J. (2020). “Hegemonía y resistencia en el espacio mediático: los medios de minorías étnicas” Paper presented at the VII Spanish Association of Communication Research (AE-IC) International Conference, Valencia October 28-30.

Retis, J., García Vargas, A. and Román P. (2020). “Los retos de la comunicación en las ciudades latinoamericanas y sus ciudades diaspóricas: ¿dónde y cómo vive Latinoamérica?” (Communication Challenges in Latin American Cities and its Diasporic Cities: Where and How does Latin America live?), XV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC), Medellin, Colombia, 2-5 July.

Retis, J. and Ferrández, A. (2020). “Hegemonía y resistencia en el espacio mediático: los medios de minorías étnicas.” (Hegemony and resistance in the media space: the ethnic minority media). Paper accepted to the VII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Investigación en Comunicación, “Comunicación y Diversidad”, 7-10 July.

Retis, J. (2020). “Examining Inclusiveness and Diasporic Transnationalism in the Post-Network Era: New Debates on Mobility, Migration, Media and Culture.” International Communication Association, Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May.

Retis, J., Kanashiro, L. and Domenack, W. (2020). “Los retos metodológicos en el estudio de la prensa y el sistema de medios informativos en el Perú” (Methodological challenges in the study of the press and the media system in Peru). Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, May 13-16.

Worlds of Journalism 2019–Present An international research collaboration aimed at understanding journalists’ professional roles, working conditions, and the evolving functions of journalism worldwide. The State of Journalists in Peru This study examines the current landscape of journalism in Peru, focusing on newsroom conditions, press freedom, and labor dynamics. In collaboration with: Lilian Kanashiro (University of Lima, Peru) Ongoing fieldwork

Global Leadership

Université Paris 8 Paris, France. Summer 2024 | Summer 2023 | Summer 2022 Research project: Latin American immigrants in Paris. Fieldwork: interviews, focus groups, participatory observation practices.
Committee Member Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. Fall 2023–Present Search & Hiring Duties: International Members of the Search and Hiring Committee participates in the evaluation of candidates for tenure-track positions
Board Member, AE-IC Asociación Española de Investigación en Comunicación (2022–Present) Serve as International Liaison, promoting global academic dialogue between Spain and other countries.
External Academic The Chinese University of Hong Kong. School of Journalism, China Advisor Fall 2021–Present Duties: The role of the External Academic Advisors includes offering advice on the School’s programs, commenting on the School’s strategic development, and reviewing faculty members’ publications annually.
National Officer, National Association of Hispanic Journalist (NAHJ) Academic At-Large Officer. (2020–2022)
Chair, Latino/a Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association (2021–2022) Led the coordination of the section's annual conference and academic initiatives.
Vice-Chair, Diaspora and the Media Working Group, International Association for Mass Communication Research (2019–2027)
Vice-President, Binational Association of Schools of Communication (BINACOM) (2018–2023) Coordinated biannual academic exchanges between U.S. and Mexican universities.

Cuillier, D. (in progress). The People’s Fight to Know: New Champions of Government Transparency.

Cuillier, D. (2020). Mapping the civic data universe: Ten ways to improve access to government information through expanded interstellar connections. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, March, 2020. Read

Cuillier, D., & Davis, C. N. (2019). The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records, second edition, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press/Sage.

Cuillier, D. (2019). Scandals and freedom of information, in Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord (Eds.), Media and Scandal. Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom.

Cuillier, D. (2017). Forecasting freedom of information: Why it faces problems – and how experts say they could be solved. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. March 2017. Read

Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante is a Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Center for Border and Global Journalism. She has a dual courtesy appointment with the UA Center for Latin American Studies, and she is an affiliated faculty member of the Mexican American Studies Department, History, and the Graduate Programs in Human Rights Practice. Her research interests include historical and contemporary issues related to media in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America. Dr. González de Bustamante is a UA Distinguished 1885 Scholar. She is co-author of Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2021), author of “Muy buenas noches,” Mexico, Television and the Cold War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), and co-editor of Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012). She is the current chair of the AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Research and the co-head of the Border Journalism Network. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a journalist for 15 years in commercial and public television. Dr. González de Bustamante is an accomplished and sought-after leader and mentor at the UA and beyond. She has demonstrated a strong commitment to inclusivity, diversity equity, accessibility, and belonging through her leadership, research and teaching.

Research and Publications (Selected)

Books

Baker, Andrea, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly, eds. Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the Post #MeToo Era. Palgrave Macmillan. [Under contract]

González de Bustamante, Celeste, and Jeannine E. Relly. Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century. (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2021).

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Muy buenas noches,” México, la televisión y la Guerra Fría. Trans. Kanarski, Jan Roth. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015. [This is the translation of the original work, published in 2012].

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Muy buenas noches,” Mexico, Television and the Cold War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

Santa Ana, Otto, and Celeste González de Bustamante, eds. Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012

Monographs

Really, Jeannine E. and Celeste González de Bustamante, "Transnational And Domestic Policy Networks and Institutional Change: A Study of The Collective Action Response to Violence Against Journalists in Mexico." Journalism & Communication Monographs 19, 2 (2017):84-152

Book Chapters

Salazar, María Grisel, and Celeste González de Bustamante. “Chapter 6. Moving Beyond the Protest Paradigm?: News Coverage of Women’s Marches in Mexico.” In Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the Post #MeToo Era, edited by Andrea Baker, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly, eds. Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the Post #MeToo Era. Palgrave Macmillan. [Under contract]

Relly, Jeannine E. and Celeste González de Bustamante. “Methodological Issues and Challenges in Conducting Research in Mexico’s Conflict Zones.” In Media and Politics in Mexican Democratization: The Post-Authoritarian Sign, edited by Rubén Arnoldo González and Martín Echeverría. Palgrave Macmillan. [Under contract]

González de Bustamante, Celeste and Jessica Retis. “Latina/o Millennials in a Post-TV Network World: Anti-stereotypes in the Transmedia Edutainment WebTV Series East Los High.” In Media, Myth and Millennials: Critical Perspectives on Race and Culture, edited by L. S. Coleman and C. Campbell. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, 2019.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. "Arizona-Sonora 360: Examining and Teaching Contested Moral Geographies along the U.S.-Mexico Border.” In Civic Engagement in Diverse Latina/o Communities: Learning from Social Justice Partnerships in Action, edited by Mari Castañeda and J. Krupczynski. New York: Peter Lang, 2018

González de Bustamante, Celeste. and Jessica Retis. “Underrepresented Majorities: Latin@s and the Media in the Digital Age.” In The Routledge Companion to Media and Race, edited by C. P. Campbell. London: Routledge, 2017.

Relly, Jeannine E. and Celeste González de Bustamante. “Global Violence Against Journalists: The Power of Impunity and Emerging Initiatives to Evoke Social Change.” In Routledge Companion to Media & Human Rights, edited by Silvio Waisbord and Howard Tumber. London: Routledge, 2017.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Memorias del ’68: Media, Massacre, and the Construction of Collective Memories.” In Sport, Protest and Globalisation, edited by Jonathan Dart and Stephen Wagg. Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. and Jeannine E. Relly. “Use of Social Media along the Northern Mexico Border in Violent Times.” In Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies, edited by Bob Franklin and Scott A. Eldridge. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Relly Jeannine. E., and González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Silenciar el norte: estudio de las influencias ejercidas sobre los periodistas en los estados fronterizos.” In Violencia y periodismo regional en México, edited by Celia del Palacio. Veracruz: Universidad Veracruzana, 2015.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “The Early Years of La tele.” In Technology and Culture in Mexico in the Twentieth Century, edited by Araceli Tinajero and Brian Freedman. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2013.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Arizona and the Making of a State of Exclusion, 1912–2012.” In Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics, edited by O. Santa Ana and C. González de Bustamante. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “A Chronology of Exclusion.” In Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics, edited by O. Santa Ana and C. González de Bustamante. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012.

Vigón, Mercedes, Lillian Martínez-Bustos, and Celeste González de Bustamante. “Not Business As Usual: Spanish-Language Television Coverage of Arizona's Immigration Law, April–May 2010.” In Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics, edited by O. Santa Ana and C. González de Bustamante. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012

Referred Journal Articles

Cárdenas, Ana Lourdes, Celeste González de Bustamante, and Jessica Retis. “To tweet for solidarity or just report the news?: Comparing social media strategies of Spanish language and English language TV networks.” Television and New Media (January 2020). DOI: 10.1177/1527476419893792

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Local Television News and Undocumented Migration: A Historical and Moral Geography Perspective of the US-Mexico Borderlands.” Revista Lumina [Lumina Journal], 13, 2 (2019): 24-39.

González de Bustamante, Celeste and Jeannine E. Relly. “The Practice and Study of Journalism in Zone of Violence in Latin America: Mexico as a Case Study.” Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies 5, 1 (2016): 51-70.

González de Bustamante, Celeste, and Jeannine E. Relly. “Professionalism under the threat of violence: journalism, reflexivity, and the potential for collective professional autonomy. Journalism Studies. (February 2015). DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1006903

González de Bustamante, Celeste, and Jeannine E. Relly. “Journalism in times of violence: Social media use by U.S. and Mexican journalists working in northern Mexico.” Digital Journalism 2, 4 (2014): 507-523.

Relly, Jeannine E., and González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Silencing Mexico: A Study of Influences on Journalists in the Northern States.” International Journal of Press/Politics 19, 1 (2014): 108-131.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Club de señoritas: productions of Mexican femininity in the 1950s.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 28 (2010): 132-140.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares: Imagining and Imaging Modernity on Television.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 26, 1 (2010): 1-30.

González de Bustamante, Celeste. “Dependency and development: the importance of TV news in the history of Mexican television.” Revista Galáxia, São Paulo [Galaxy Journal] 18 (December 2009): 247-262.

González de Bustamante, Celeste, and Beatriz Becker. “The Past and the Future of Brazilian Television News.” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 10, 1 (2009): 45-68.

Other Publications

González de Bustamante, Celeste, and Jeannine E. Relly. “Women on the Frontline in

Ciudad Juárez.” NACLA Report on the Americas, 53:4 (2021), 421-427, DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2021.2000773

González de Bustamante, Celeste. "the Murder of Celine Navarro." In the SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. Edited by Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, E.J.R. David. (Forthcoming).

González de Bustamante, Celeste, and Veronica Reyes-Escudero. “Digital Resources: The Documented Border Project.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Ed. William H. Beezley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Kim's research and teaching areas are multimedia journalism, visual journalism, photojournalism and international photojournalism. He has led multimedia Study Abroad courses in Orvieto, Italy, and served as photo editor for news agencies in Washington, D.C., and London and worked as a freelancer in Spain, Japan and other parts of the world.

Mort, reporter, author and educator, has covered stories on seven continents since the 1960s — from war in Biafra to tango dancing by the Seine. He was editor of the International Herald Tribune; special correspondent for the Associated Press; AP bureau chief in Africa, Southeast Asia, Argentina and France; and founding editor of the quarterly Dispatches.

Rosenblum has written a series of books about U.S. press coverage of international affairs, as well as books about political and economic issues in Africa and France. His latest book is Little Bunch of Madmen: Elements of Global Reporting, which is being used in journalism programs around the country.

Rosenblum has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize eight times, and has won a major award from the Overseas Press Club. Go to http://www.mortrosenblum.net/live/ to read Rosenblum's latest reports.

Bill is the former deputy managing editor of The New York Times, where he worked for 32 years. As a correspondent, he was based in Times bureaus in the United States and London, and also ran Newsweek bureaus in Cairo and Moscow. He teaches courses in advanced reporting and feature writing at the University of Arizona School of Journalism.

Carol's research focuses on the role of images in shaping ideas and public opinion during the Cold War, ethical concerns about publishing violent and tragic images, the role of the news media in advancing government accountability, and the visual framing of war. She teaches classes on reporting, writing, and editing, and in 2011 she launched a science and environmental journalism curriculum for the School of Journalism. She served as the school’s director, the director of graduate studies, and the director of undergraduate studies. She teaches Studies of Global Media courses in documentary, media and the environment, and media and climate change.

Refereed Journal Articles

Mace, M. & Schwalbe, C.B. (2020). From Robots to Humans: Newspaper Coverage of Mars in the United States and the United Kingdom 2011–2016. Journalism Studies. Published online July 2020. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2020.1799238

Schwalbe, C.B., J.E. Relly, S.A. Cruikshank, & E.H. Schwalbe (2019). Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The case of Palestinian journalists. Journalism Studies, 20(13), 1920–1939. Published online November 2018. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2018.1543555

Relly, J.E., & Schwalbe, C.B. (2016). How Business Lobby Networks Shaped the U.S. Freedom of Information Act: An examination of 60 years of congressional testimony. Government Information Quarterly, 33(3), 404–416. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2016.05.002

Schwalbe, C.B., Silcock, B.W., & Candello, E. (2015). Gatecheckers at the Visual News Stream: A new model for classic gatekeeping theory. Journalism Practice, 9(4), 465–483. doi:10.1080/17512786.2015.1030133

Schwalbe, C.B., & Dougherty, S. (2015). Visual Coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War: Framing conflict in three U.S. news magazines. Media, War & Conflict, 8(1), 141–162. doi:10.1177/1750635215571204

Schwalbe, C.B., & Cuillier, D. (2013). Ethics Pedagogy 2.0: A content analysis of award-winning media ethics exercises. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 28(3), 175–188. doi:10.1080/08900523.2013.795058

Schwalbe, C.B. (2013). Visually Framing the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq in TIME, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. International Journal of Communication, 7, 239–262.

Relly, J.E., & Schwalbe, C.B. (2012). Watchdog Journalism: India’s three largest English-language newspapers and the Right to Information Act. Asian Journal of Communication, 22(3), 284–301. doi:10.1080/01292986.2012.729149

Curran, A., Grubb, M., Hallaq, T., Schwalbe, C.B., & Stark, C. (2010). Weaving a Plan for Webcasting in Higher Education. Journal of Media Education, 1(3), 52–53. (Co-authors are listed in alphabetical order.)

Keith, S., Schwalbe, C.B., & Silcock, B.W. (2010). Comparing War Images Across Media Platforms: Methodological challenges for content analysis. Media, War & Conflict, 3(1), 87–98.

Keith, S., & Schwalbe, C.B. (2010). Women and Visual Depictions of the U.S.-Iraq War in Print and Online Media. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17(1), 4–17. Lead article.

Cuillier, D. & Schwalbe, C.B. (2010). GIFTed Teaching: A content analysis of 253 Great Ideas for Teaching awards in journalism and mass communication education. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 65(1), 22–39. Lead article.

Scholarly Book Chapters

Kelley, M.M., & Schwalbe, C.B. (n press). Media Coverage of Space Science and Exploration. In Merryn McKinnon & Kim Walsh-Childers (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Science & Health Journalism. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hudson, B., & Schwalbe, C.B. (2019). Social Scientific Approaches to Studying the Magazine Form. In Miglena Sternadori & Timothy Holmes (Eds.), The Handbook of Magazine Studies. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

Schwalbe, C.B., Keith, S., & Silcock, B.W. (2018). Researching the Framing of Still and Moving Images Across Media Platforms: Challenges and opportunities. In Paul D’Angelo (Ed.), Doing News Framing Analysis 2: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (pp. 221–246). New York: Routledge.

Schwalbe, C.B., Silcock, B.W., & Candello, E. (2017). Visual Gatechecking: A new model for classic gatekeeping theory. In Stuart Allan (Ed.), Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity. New York: Routledge.

Schwalbe, C.B. (2015). Infographics and Interactivity: A nexus of magazine art and science. In David Abrahamson and Marcia Prior-Miller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research: The Future of the Magazine Form. New York: Routledge.

Schwalbe, C.B. (2007). Remembering Our Shared Past: Visually framing the Iraq War on U.S. news websites. Journal article reprinted in Alberto Franzosi (Ed.), Content Analysis. London: SAGE.
     Part of the SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, this anthology is a valuable resource
     for university libraries worldwide, especially in countries where holdings of academic journals
     are less comprehensive than in the United States.

Schwalbe, C.B. (2006). Changing Faces: The first five weeks of the Iraq War. In Ralph Berenger (Ed.), Cybermedia Go to War: Role of converging media during and after the 2003 Iraq War (pp. 361–376). Spokane, Washington: Marquette Books.

Swanberg, S.E. “Borrowed Chronicles: New York Times Science Journalist, William L. ‘Atomic Bill’ Laurence and the Reports of a Hiroshima Survivor,” in Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear Age, Michael Mays, ed., Hanford Histories Series Volume II. Forthcoming from Washington State University Press, April 2020. See https://wsupress.wsu.edu/product/legacies-of-the-manhattan-project/

Swanberg, S.E. “‘The Way of the Rain’: Towards a conceptual framework for the retrospective examination of historical American and Australian ‘rain follows the plow/plough’ messages,” originally presented as a conference paper (under another title) at the annual Society for Social Studies of Science meeting in 2018. International Review of Environmental History 5(2): 67-96 (2019).

Swanberg, S.E. “‘Wounded in Mind’: Science Service Writer, Marjorie Van de Water, Explains World War II Military Neuropsychiatry to the American Public,” originally presented as a conference paper at the History of Science Society annual meeting in 2018. Media History (2019). DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2019.1652582

Swanberg. S.E. (2019) Psychological Armor: The Science News-Letter Warns Against Propaganda (1926–1965), Journalism Studies, 20:13, 1883-1902, doi:10.1080/1461670X.2018.1541754

Swanberg, S.E. “Crux of the Matter: Renewing an Acquaintance with John Hersey,” review of “Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima,” Literary Journalism Studies, Vol 11, No. 2, December 2019, pp. 175-178, https://ialjs.org/wpcontent/uploads/2020/01/15-LJS-v11n2_Bk-Rev_Hersey.pdf

Matthew Roby* and Swanberg, S.E. “Fact or Fiction? Researchers Examine Our Shared Concern,” review of The Oxford Handbook for the Science of Science Communication, ed. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele (New York, NY:Oxford University Press, 2017) Literary Journalism Studies.

Swanberg, S.E. “The Limits of Memory and Vicissitudes of Truth,” review of Kept Secret: The half-truth in nonfiction,” Literary Journalism Studies, Vol 9, No.2, Fall 2017, pp. 139-141, http://ialjs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Book-Reviews-130-149.pdf

Scholarship

Swanberg, S.E. (2025) President's panel presenter - “Re-visiting Johannes Siemes S.J.’s Eyewitness Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima,” Presentation made at the 2025 IALJS–19 conference in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA on May 29, 2025.

Swanberg, S.E. (2023) Invited panelist for PCST, The Global Network for Science Communication - Conference in Rotterdam, the. Roundtable Topic: "Finding Common Ground Through Journalism," Panel moderator: Felicity Mellor, Panel members: Jane Gregory, Susan Swanberg and An Nguyen. (Also listed under scholarly presentations.)

Swanberg, S.E. (2021). “Under the Influence: Johannes A. Siemes, S.J.’s eyewitness report and its impact on John Hersey’s Hiroshima,” Literary Journalism Studies, 13 (1 & 2): 130-161.

Swanberg, S.E. (2021). “Ester Blenda Nordström: Sweden’s Henry David Thoreau?”42nd Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA2021) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Swanberg, S.E. (2021). Ester Blenda Nordström: En Tidningskvinna Bland Tidningskvinnor (A Newswoman Among Newswomen),” The Fifteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-15) May 22, 2021 (virtual).

Swanberg, S.E. (2020). “Borrowed Chronicles: New York Times Science Journalist, William L. ‘Atomic Bill’ Laurence and the Reports of a Hiroshima Survivor,” in Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear Age, (editor: Michael Mays). Hanford Histories Series Volume II, Pullman, WA: WSU Press.

Global Leadership

Elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history which - founded in 1788 by Sir James Edward Smith (1859-1828), who was its first President. The Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus.

Maggy's research focuses on international journalism, media, conflict and humanitarian crises; community journalism; Iraq and Kurdistan; and Kurdish media development. She spent two years as the Iraq country director for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting in Baghdad. Zanger has served as the faculty adviser to El Independiente, a student-produced publication that serves the city of South Tucson and is one of the bilingual publication in the country produced by students in a real community on a regular basis. She also spearheaded the School’s border safety efforts which developed workshops for students on how to report safely along the border, and was a founder of the Border Journalism Network, which functions as a hub through which professionals, educators and their students can gather, develop and share knowledge to improve the quality of border reporting.

Chapters

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Banchero, P. (2022). Toward a framework for studying democratic media development and ‘media capture’: The Iraqi Kurdistan case (pp. 45-70). In Heloisa Pait (ed.), Media, development and democracy. Emerald Publishing.

Journal articles

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). News media in a fragile state: Journalists’ perceptions of professional ethics in post-Ba'athist Iraq. Mass Communication and Society, 18(4), 471-497. doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2014.1001032

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). Democratic norms and forces of gatekeeping: A study of influences on Iraqi journalists’ attitudes toward government information access. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 92(2), 346-373. doi.org/10.1177/1077699015573195

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). Professional role perceptions among Iraqi Kurdish journalists from a “state within a state.” Journalism, 16(8), 1085-1106. doi.org/10.1177/1464884914550973

Gil de Zúñiga, H., & Cheng, Z. (2024). Origin and Evolution of the News Finds Me Perception: Review of Theory and Effects. In: Goyanes, M., Cañedo, A. (eds) Media Influence on Opinion Change and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70231-0_10

Cheng, Z., Yang, Y., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2023). Second screening and professional and alternative news media trust: The mediating role of media efficacy. Human Communication Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqad053

Cheng, Z., & Li, Y. (2023). Like, comment, and share on TikTok: Exploring the effect of sentiment and second-person view on the user engagement with TikTok news videos. Social Science Computer Review. doi: 10.1177/08944393231178603

Cheng, Z., Marcos-Marne, H., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2023). Birds of a Feather Get Angrier Together:

Effect of Social Media News, Political Homophily on Political Anger. Political Behavior. doi: 10.1007/s11109-023-09864-z.

Cheng, Z., Chen, J., Peng, X., & Shoenberger, H. (2023). Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. doi:10.1080/19331681.2023.2173700

Gil de Zúñiga, H., Cheng, Z., & González-González, P. (2022). Effects of the News Finds Me perception on algorithmic news attitudes and social media political homophily. Journal of Communication, 72(5), 578-591. doi:10.1093/joc/jqac025

Cheng, Z., Zhang, B., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2022). Antecedents of Political Consumerism: Modeling Online, Social Media and WhatsApp News Use Effects Through Political Expression and Political Discussion. International Journal of Press/Politics. doi: 10.1177/19401612221075936

Global Leadership

Research Fellow, Democracy Research Unit, University of Salamanca, Spain (2024 – present)

Anderson, J. T. L., Sussman, K., & Song, Y. (2024). To be woke or not to be woke? An exploration of the moral foundations of conservative rejection of brand activism. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 1-14.

Anderson, J. T. L. & Devlin-Brown, N. (2024). The shifting foundations of current social media research and systems thinking as a remedy: A proposal for a new research agenda. Journal of Social Media in Society.

Anderson, J. T. L., Kazmi, S., Yu, N., Atkinson, L., Jamar, P., & Tao, J. (In Press). Sustainable and Just?: A Concept Analysis of Access to Sustainable Commercial Goods as an Issue of Environmental Justice. Accepted submission for “Strategic Sustainability Communication. Principles, Perspectives and Potential of Communication for Transformation” (to be published by Springer Nature).

Anderson, J. T. L., Eastin, M., & LaMonica, M. (In Press). The Environmental Communication Uncertainty Framework- How Biology May Inform Communication Theory.
Accepted submission for “Emerging vegetal communication in the public space" (to be published by ISTE)

Scholarship

Anderson, J. T. L., Proverbs, P., Arceneaux, P., Lee, B., Khatwani, H., & Kiousis, S. (2025). Climate Communication as Statecraft: A Content Analysis of Climate Change Communication from Caribbean Governments and Press. Environmental Communication, 1–15.

Alqabbaa, M., Anderson, J. T. L., Dagher, N., Mulayousef, A., Arceneaux, P., Myslik, B., & Kioussis, S. (2025). October 7 Changed the World: Exploring the Agenda-Building of the U.S. and Israeli Government Messages During the Israel-Gaza 2023 War. International Public Relations Research Conference.

Anderson, J. T. L., Proverbs, P., Arceneaux, P., Lee, B., Khatwani, H., & Kioussis, S. (2025). Climate Communication as Statecraft: A Content Analysis of Climate Change Communication from Caribbean Governments and Press. International Association for Media and Communication Research.

Anderson, J. T. L. (2025). A Proposal for an Ethic of Justice in Climate Change News. International Association for Media and Communication Research. International Association for Media and Communication Research.

Journalistic Production

Freelancer, Local, national and international news (NPR, The World, BBC)

Produce freelance spot and feature radio stories from southern Arizona and northern Mexico for U.S. and international audiences
Participate in news broadcasts and on-air debriefs to provide discuss reporting on relevant news stories and provide deeper analysis
2023 Public Media Journalists Association: 2nd place, Arts Feature and Continuing Coverage (“Title 42 leaves asylum seekers into limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border,” shared with Alisa Reznick and Murphy Woodhouse)

Global Leadership

Center for Community News Spanish-Language Faculty Collaboration

Collaborate with faculty from universities across the country who are teaching and building Spanish-language and bilingual coursework and newsrooms on campuses throughout the United States.

Global Leadership

Associate Editor, Digital Journalism (global academic journal focused on journalistic practice), 2024-current

Journalistic Production

Co-produced an analysis of migration and drug smuggling data from 2017-2021 to identify trends, dispel inaccurate official rhetoric, and present the complexities of issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Tucson refugee family reunited with son as new policies take effect,” Arizona Daily Star, 2021
“Tucson agencies in waiting game as Biden delays refugee arrivals,” Arizona Daily Star, 2021
Analysis: Border debate ignores new data, warps public’s view of fentanyl, migration,” Arizona Daily Star, 2021

Global Leadership

University of Arizona School of Journalism FRONTERA BEAT (2020-2021)

Co-taught more than 10 high school students in the U.S.-Mexico border region how to use journalism tools to report issues in their communities related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Instructed on best practices and journalism skills related to research, interviewing, audio recording, and media writing.
Developed journalism tools for students, led weekly group online meetups, and provided instructional training throughout the program. Mentored students in story development and pitching.
Project Editor, JOUR 511 Global Latinx, diasporic transnational and media in Latin America, Europe and Asia (2021)
- Selected by lead professor to help guide students’ course projects as part of a collaborative effort to develop a series of journalism pieces related to Latinx diasporas throughout Arizona and Latin America.
- Met individually and collectively with graduate and undergraduate students to go over project ideas and deliverables, edit journalistic content, and provide instructional feedback and support. Developed student project progress tracker for professor and future student editors.
University of Arizona Confluencenter Mellon Fronteridades Fellowship for research projects focused on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands (2020)
Tinker Field Research Grant to conduct fieldwork in Latin America (2020)

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Guest Editor Peer Review Academic Journals

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Center for Border & Global Journalism
845 N. Park Ave
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0158

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Monica Chadha

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Jeannine Relly

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Jessica Retis

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David Cuillier (former CBGJ contributor)

Celeste González de Bustamante (former CBGJ contributor)

Kim Newton (former CBGJ contributor)

Mort Rosenblum (former CBGJ contributor)

William Schmidt (former CBGJ contributor)

Carol Schwalbe (former CBGJ contributor)

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Susan E. Swanberg

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Maggy Zanger (former CBGJ contributor)

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Zicheng Cheng

Global Leadership

Josh Anderson

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Kendal Blust

Journalistic Production

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Jan Lauren Boyles

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Mandy Loader

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Center for Border & Global Journalism 845 N. Park Ave University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0158

Center for Border & Global Journalism
845 N. Park Ave
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0158