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  1. An age of scandal entrepreneurs and scandalous production: Undercover journalism and its public interest scandals

    Article • Media Culture & Society, March 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  2. Communicative Liminality and its Practices: A Case of Political Journalists, Social Media and Anonymous Sourcing

    Article • Journalism Studies, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  3. Environmental Journalism in the African Context: Continuity and Change

    Article • African Journalism Studies, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  4. Pandemic disruptions: Social media and pandemic news work of divergent Arab journalists

    Article • Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, January 2025, Intellect

    Dr Mokhtar Elareshi , Dr Julian Matthews

  5. From disruption to a perfect storm; insights from a holistic analysis of British journalists' pandemic experiences

    Article • December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  6. Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises

    Article • Media Culture & Society, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  7. Book Review: Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual

    Article • Cultural Sociology, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  8. Performing the disaster genre? TV journalism, disruptive factors and community challenges in the reporting of the UK Grenfell Tower block fire

    Article • Journalism, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  9. Creating one nation? Ethno‐national imaginaries, audiences and the critical reception of TV nation branding messages

    Article • Nations and Nationalism, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Julian Matthews

  10. Accommodating interests? Elite journalism, green interest groups and the U.K. reporting of climate change

    Article • Newspaper Research Journal, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  11. Precarious Professionalism: Journalism and the Fragility of Professional Practice in the Global South

    Article • Journalism Studies, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  12. Journalism and 7/7: Resurveying the terrain

    Article • Journalism, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  13. Press performance amid threats of terror: Exploring reporting thresholds and criticism in elite coverage of an Identity Cards Bill

    Article • Journalism, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  14. The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourse

    Article • European Journal of Communication, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  15. Placing Industry in the Frame: Exploring the Mediated Performance of Industry Voices in Climate Change Reporting

    Article • Frontiers in Communication, November 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Julian Matthews

  16. Fracturing Debate? A Review of Research on Media Coverage of “Fracking”

    Article • Frontiers in Communication, September 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Julian Matthews

  17. Addressing a region? The Arab imagined audience and newsworthiness in the production of Al Jazeera Arabic

    Article • International Communication Gazette, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  18. What Comes from Confronting a Growing 'Certainty'? Exploring How UK Journalism Reports the Politics of Climate Change

    Article • Sociology and Anthropology, September 2016, Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd.

    Dr Julian Matthews

  19. Media Events in the Aftermath of Terrorism: Exploring How Reporting Templates Produce Social Drama

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr Julian Matthews

  20. Media Events

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julian Matthews

  21. Children and the News

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Julian Matthews

  22. Children and the News

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Julian Matthews

  23. Maintaining a politicised climate of opinion? Examining how political framing and journalistic logic combine to shape speaking opportunities in UK elite newspaper reporting of climate change

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, September 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  24. Media performance in the aftermath of terror: Reporting templates, political ritual and the UK press coverage of the London Bombings, 2005

    Article • Journalism, November 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  25. The Cultural Intermediaries Reader

    Article • January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  26. Book review: Stig A Nohrstedt (ed.), Communicating Risks: Towards the Threat Society?

    Article • Discourse & Communication, October 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  27. U.S. TV News and Communicative Architecture: Between Manufacturing Consent and Mediating Democracy

    Article • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  28. Studying journalists in changing times

    Article • International Communication Gazette, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  29. The impact of amended controls on the advertising of infant formula in the UK: findings from a before and after study

    Article • International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  30. Formula manufacturers’ web sites: are they really non‐compliant advertisements?

    Article • Health Education, December 2012, Emerald

    Dr Julian Matthews

  31. Are we all cultural intermediaries now? An introduction to cultural intermediaries in context

    Article • European Journal of Cultural Studies, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Jennifer Smith Maguire, Dr Julian Matthews

  32. Negatively shaping the asylum agenda? The representational strategy and impact of a tabloid news campaign

    Article • Journalism, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  33. Television News Ecology in the United Kingdom

    Article • Television & New Media, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  34. Cultural Intermediaries and the Media

    Article • Sociology Compass, July 2010, Wiley

    Jennifer Smith Maguire, Dr Julian Matthews

  35. “Making It Our Own”

    Article • Television & New Media, September 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  36. NEGOTIATING NEWS CHILDHOODS

    Article • Journal of Children and Media, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  37. A MISSING LINK?

    Article • Journalism Practice, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  38. Creating a new(s) view of the environment

    Article • Journalism, August 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  39. “Out of the Mouths of Babes and Experts”: children's news and what it can teach us about news access and professional mediation

    Article • Journalism Studies, November 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Matthews

  40. Denis McQuail, Audience Analysis, London: Sage, 1997, £28.00 (£11.99 paperback), xi+176 pp. (ISBN 0-7619-1002-6).

    Article • Sociology, August 1999, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  41. Book Reviews

    Article • Sociology, August 1999, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  42. Cultures of Production: Making Children's News

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  43. Journalism

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Matthews

  44. The Sociology of Mass Media

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Julian Matthews