Publications/CV
peer reviewed Articles
Nelson, J.L., & Tandoc, E. (2018). Doing ‘Well’ or Doing ‘Good’: What Audience Analytics Reveal about Journalism’s Competing Goals. Journalism Studies.
Belair-Gagnon, V., Nelson, J.L., & Lewis, S.C. (2018). Audience Engagement, Reciprocity, and the Pursuit of Community Connectedness in Public Media Journalism. Journalism Practice.
Nelson, J.L. (2018). The Elusive Engagement Metric.
Digital Journalism
Nelson, J. L., & Taneja, H. (2018). The Small, Disloyal Fake News Audience: The Role of Audience Availability in Fake News Consumption.
New Media & Society
Nelson, J.L. & Lei, R.F. (2017). The Effect of Digital Platforms on News Audience Behavior.
Digital Journalism
Nelson, J.L. (2017). And Deliver Us To Segmentation: The Growing Appeal of the Niche News Audience.
Journalism Practice
Nelson, J.L. & Webster, J.G. (2017). The Myth of Partisan Selective Exposure: A Portrait of the Online Political News Audience.
Social Media + Society
Nelson, J.L., Lewis, D.A., & Lei, R. (2017). Digital Democracy in America: A Look at Civic Engagement in an Internet Age
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Nelson, J.L. & Webster, J.G. (2016). Audience Currencies in the Age of Big Data
International Journal on Media Management
Nelson, J.L. & Lewis, D.A. (2015). Training Social Justice Journalists: A Case Study
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
other publications
Nelson, J.L. (2019, February 7). Journalism needs an audience to survive, but isn’t sure how to earn its loyalty.
The Conversation
Nelson, J.L. (2019, January 23). What is Fox News? Researchers want to know.
Columbia Journalism Review
Nelson, J.L. (2018, April 30). The audience engagement industry struggles with measuring success.
Columbia Journalism Review
Nelson, J.L. (2017, November 29). Membership in News Literature Review.
The Membership Puzzle Project
Nelson, J.L. (2017, November 3). How Perceptions of the News Audience Shape Pursuits of the News Audience.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Nelson, J.L. (2017, January 31). Is ‘Fake News’ a Fake Problem?
Columbia Journalism Review
Nelson, J.L. & Webster, J.G. (2016, May 20). Audience Currencies in the Age of Big Data.
MediaShift
Nelson, J.L. (2015, September 30). Digital News Audiences Shift to Mobile as Platform Widens Margin vs. Desktop
Digital Content Next
Webster, J.G. & Nelson, J.L. (2015, May 15). Accounting for Attention Minutes as Currency
Digital Content Next
Book Chapters
Webster, J.G. & Nelson, J.L. (2016). The Evolution of News Consumption: A Structurational Interpretation. In M. Mortensen, J. Ørmen & J.L. Jensen (Eds.), News Across Media. New York, NY: Routledge.
Press
Is audience engagement a mushy construct based on anecdata — or something audiences actually want? Nieman Lab (4.30.18)
What Research on ‘Measurable Journalism’ Tells Us About Tech, Cultural Shifts in Digital Media MediaShift (4.9.18)
Have Audiences Become More Audible? Northwestern Research News (3.19.18)
Good News: The Scope of Fake News is Limited La Presse (2.8.17)
Is it true that fake news is an overblown story? The News-Gazette (2.5.17)
Civic Engagement Paper Receives Award at Conference Center for Civic Engagement (10.5.16)