[Commlist] Special Issue CfP – Voices and Sources in the Digital News Ecology

*Call for Papers – Digital Journalism (Special Issue)*
*Voices and Sources in the Digital News Ecology*
In a platformised and increasingly automated news environment, 
journalism’s authority depends on whose voices are heard, which sources 
gain access and visibility, and how digital infrastructures shape these 
processes. This Special Issue of /Digital Journalism/ examines 
journalistic voice and sourcing as interconnected practices, conditioned 
by platforms, automation, and organisational infrastructures.
The Special Issue brings together two core pillars:
(1) journalistic voice, understood as authorship, stance, and discursive 
presence across formats and platforms; and
(2) sourcing, access, and visibility, including how sources are 
selected, attributed, marginalised, or amplified in digital news production.
We invite empirically grounded and theoretically driven contributions 
that advance conceptual, methodological, or comparative understanding of 
voice and/or sourcing in digital journalism. Submissions that explicitly 
engage with issues of epistemic justice, inequality, continuity and 
change, and the amplification of under-heard voices are particularly 
welcome. We explicitly encourage contributions from Global South and 
other Global Majority contexts, as well as comparative and 
cross-national research.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
– Journalistic voice under platform and audience pressures
– Sourcing practices, access, and visibility in digital newsrooms
– Automation, AI, and their implications for authorship, attribution, 
and authority
– Continuities such as official-source dominance and elite bias under 
platform conditions
– Interventions aimed at broadening participation and enhancing 
epistemic justice
*Submission details*
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of 750–1,000 words 
(excluding references), along with a short author bio (200–300 words). 
Proposals should be submitted as a single PDF.
*Timeline*
Extended abstract deadline: 15 May 2026
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2026
Full article submission deadline: 15 November 2026
This Special Issue does not require any payment or article processing 
charges (APCs) from authors.
*Editors*
Astrid Vandendaele (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Leiden University)
Joris Boonen (Maastricht University)
Jelle Mast (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Patricia Moy (University of Washington)
*Contact*
For submissions and questions: (Astrid.Vandendaele /at/ vub.be)
Full details are available upon request from the editors.

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