On this page, you will find selected publications, awards, and certificates in journalism and research.
Selected Research Studies
In the study titled, “Reporting in the Age of Coronavirus: Alternating Between ‘Shoe-Leather’ and ‘Slippers’ Journalism” I utilized in-depth interviews with international journalists to examine the newsgathering practices they employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Building upon interview data, I proposed the concept “slippers” journalism, which accompanies working-from-home practices, suggesting that reporters primarily collected information for their stories online through social media, video apps, and other online sources.
Local news outlets perform their operations in a complex digital media ecosystem that pressures them to acclimatize to market demands and introduce strategies to attract readers and advertisers. With a limited amount of resources in a highly competitive market, they have been experimenting with diverse “game plans” to bring traffic to their websites. In the study titled, “Local Media in a Digital Market: Establishing Niche and Promoting Original Reporting to Ensure Sustainability” I explained what strategies the U.S. media utilize to attract users and achieve sustainability.
Live blogs have been my main area of interest since I started producing research in journalism studies and practice. The live blog is a web-native, participatory-oriented journalistic genre comprised of brief updates of an event in motion and designed to deliver real-time information from multiple sources about breaking news and scheduled events. In the study titled, “Engagement With Live Blogs: When Passive Consumption Overpowers Participation” I investigated citizen participation in live blogs in the changing media ecosystem from the public sphere perspective.
In another Sage publication, I utilized a gatekeeping theory to investigate ongoing practices that most prominent news media organizations employ to enable user participation. The study titled, “Participatory Spaces in Online Media: Half-opening the Gates to Users” suggests that reader participation in developing news content and reacting to it is limited. Specifically, major news websites allow participation in areas that increase website traffic, while enabling citizens to produce stories is not a widely adopted form of reader participation.
Selected Awards
An outstanding dissertation award from the College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
My doctoral dissertation titled, “Uses and Gratifications of Digital Media: The Case of Live Blogs” assessed users’ attitudes toward live blogs and their motivations to consume and participate in live blogging.
The full dissertation is available here.
This is an award for excellence in investigative journalism I received in 2009 from the Independent Association of Serbia and the Embassy of the United States in Belgrade.
The award was granted to me and my colleague Ivana Jovanovic for thorough investigation of the case of Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian-Serb leader who was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Selected Certificates
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