Irene Costera Meijer — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Irene Costera Meijer is Professor of Journalism Studies and head of the Journalism Studies Department (Ma and Ba-program) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

In addition she works as a professor II at the Research group for Media Use and Audience Studies of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen (Norway).

Costera Meijer is an international expert on media audiences and the principal investigator of both the NWO Research project The New News Consumer http://www.news-use.com/ and the research project Reinventing Quality Journalism in the Digital Age.

Her research interests focus on audience studies and in particular on the impact of digitalization on changing practices of media consumption and news use and their consequences for media organisations. Related to this Costera Meijer often collaborates with media organisations which makes it easier to translate research results into relevant suggestions for every day professional practices. Costera Meijer is on the editorial board of the academic journals Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice.

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Research Output 2006 2019

Audiences for Journalism

Costera Meijer, I. & Groot Kormelink, T., 14 May 2019, International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Vos, T. P. & Hanusch, F. (eds.). Wiley Blackwell, 7 p. (The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication).

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › Academic › peer-review

Journalism

News

Revenue

Journalism, Audiences and News Experience

Costera-Meijer, I. C., 2019, Handbook of Journalism Studies 2nd ed.. Wahl-Jorgensen, K. & Hanitzsch, T. (eds.). Routledge

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

"521 topics that we never thought of ourselves": How public-powered stories challenge local journalists' ideas of newsworthiness

Boesman, J. L. J. & Costera-Meijer, I. C., 13 Dec 2018, (Unpublished).

Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic

journalist

news value

journalism

local journalism

news

Material and sensory dimensions of everyday news use

Groot Kormelink, T. & Costera Meijer, I., 5 Feb 2018, In : Media, Culture & Society. p. 1-17 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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news

ethnography

religious behavior

coping

Netherlands

Costera Meijer, I. & Groot Kormelink, T., Apr 2018, Digital News Report 2018. Newman, N., Fletcher, R., Kalogeropoulos, A., Levy, D. A. L. & Nielsen, R. K. (eds.). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, p. 90-91 2 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic