Editorial
Transnational Journalism History: Expanding Boundaries
Authors:
- Frank HarbersEmail Frank Harbers
- Marcel Broersma
- Frank Harbers, University of Groningen, NetherlandsFrank Harbers is as an assistant-professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. He received his PhD in 2014, which focused on the development of journalism in Great Britain, the Netherlands and France since the second half of the 19th century. In 2016 he was researcher-in-residence at the National Library of the Netherlands for which he conducted a digital humanities project into automatically classifying the genre of historical newspaper articles. In 2018, together with Huub Wijfjes, he published an edited volume on the history of the press in the Netherlands. His research interests focus on (comparative) journalism history, digital humanities approaches to journalism history, narrative forms of journalism, and journalistic innovation. Harbers has published several articles about all of these themes in refereed journals and edited volumes.
- Marcel Broersma, University of Groningen, NetherlandsMarcel Broersma is a full professor and director of the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. He is also the academic director of the Dutch Research School for Media Studies (RMeS) and coordinator of the national VSNU Digital Society research program. His research focuses on the current and historical transformation of journalism, changing media use and digital literacy, and digital humanities. Broersma published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters, monographs, edited volumes and special journal issues on media history, social media, transformations in journalism and political communication, among which Redefining Journalism in the Era of the Mass Press, 1880-1920 (2017; edited with John Steel).
Abstract
Introduction to the special issue on Transnational Journalism History.- Year: 2021
- Volume: 24 Issue: 1-2
- Page/Article: 1 - 6
- DOI: 10.18146/tmg.808
- Published on 8 Dec 2021