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New Special Issue out:

Special Issue on Representations of Death in Global Journalism edited by Nechama Brodie and Kristin Skare Orgeret

Table of Contents:

Memento Mori: Noticing Death in Global Media by Nechama Brodie and Kristin Skare Orgeret

Missing Bodies, Silent Pages: How Turkish Media Portrays Journalist Murders and Silence by Önder Deniz, Hüseyin Vehbi İmamoğlu and Taybe Topsakal

Celebrity Suicides in China: How Social Media Shapes News Framing by Shiyu (Sharon) Zheng and Shiyi Zhang

Mediation of Gendered Life and Death Within Intersecting Regimes of Patriarchy, Authoritarianism, and Necropolitics by Melike İşleyen and Barış Çoban

Convening Black Sociability Over a Corpse: Obituaries in the Early South African Black Press by Lesley Mofokeng

The 1927 Mapleton Train Disaster, Memorialisation, and the Media’s Role in Narrating the Dead by Laurence Stewart and Thandi Bombi

Ethical Principles in the Portrayal of Death and Suffering: Finnish Photographers Covering the Russia–Ukraine War by Liia-Maria Raippalinna, Suvi Mononen, Markus Mykkänen and Turo Uskali

You Have not Disappeared: Digital Mourning Spaces After a Social Media Celebrity’s Self-Obituary by Chuanlin Ning

Cut-Off Low (DANA) in Valencia: Visual Representation of Death and Grief in Photojournalism by Montse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo

New Project: Shared Frontlines and Democracy: Strengthening Ukraine Expertise and Collaboration in Norwegian Journalism and Education

We are very please to have received funding from HK-Dir to the new project Shared Frontlines and Democracy! Read more about it here.