Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2026
- Chalise Macklin, University of Memphis
“From Classroom to Newsroom: University of Memphis–Marion Dual Enrollment Bridge Program”
- Won-Ki Moon, University of Florida
“Smarter or Just More Confident? Investigating Generative AI’s Impact on Fact-Checking, the Illusion of Expertise, and Interventions for Digital Literacy”
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Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2025
- Alison Burns, Maryland
“Digital Storytelling as Service Learning in an Undergraduate Media Literacy Course: A Case Study of the Harriet Tubman Byway Project”
- Sisi Hu and Ginger Blackstone, Arkansas, Fayetteville
“Breaking the Stigma: How TikTokers Frame and De-stigmatize Childless Women”
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Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2024
- Yee Man Margaret Ng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The Twitter Exodus: Negotiating the Transition from Twitter to Mastodon among Journalists”
- Benjamin Toff, University of Minnesota
“Evaluating Differences in Trust Toward Audio- versus Text-based Modes of News”
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Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2023
- Megan Duncan, Virginia Tech
“Relationships between Geographical Political Sorting, Discussion Networks, and Audience Perceptions of News Bias”
- Ciera Kirkpatrick, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Examining Health Information Seeking on TikTok and the Impact of TikTok Message Features on Young Women’s Health-Related Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions”
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Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2022
- Desirée Schmuck, School for Mass Communication Research at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
“Modern Political Educators or Sources of Fake News? Influencers’ (Mis-)Information About Political Topics on Social Media”
- Jieun Shin, University of Florida
“Evaluating the Quality of News and User Engagement on Social Media”
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Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2021
- Yan Huang, University of Houston
“Correcting Vaccine-Related Misbeliefs Through Vicarious Self-Persuasion: Effects of Storytelling and Refutation”
- Joanna Strycharz, University of Amsterdam, and Claire Segijn, University of Minnesota
“A Change in Media Diet as a Result of Corporate Surveillance. A Comparison between the United States and Europe”
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Emerging Scholar Recipients for 2020
- Russell Clayton, Florida State
“Examining E-Cigarette Users’ Psychological, Affective, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Responses to Freedom-Threatening Anti-Vaping Public Service Announcements”
- Viorela Dan, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, and Stephanie Van Stee, Missouri-St. Louis
“Verbal-Visual Mismatch: The Disclosure Section of Televised Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Its Effects on Consumers”
- Wenlin Liu, Houston
“Examining the Role of Community Communication Resources and Disaster Storytelling in Building Community Resilience”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2019
- Jeanine Guidry, Nicole O’Donnell and Jay Adams, Virginia Commonwealth
“Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviors through Visual Social Media”
- Lindsay Palmer, Wisconsin-Madison
“A Cultural History of the Committee to Protect Journalists”
- Jason T. Peifer, Indiana
“(Re)Building Credibility: Understanding How Transparency, Locality, and Perceived Importance Can Contribute to Fostering Media Trust”
- Meghan Sobel, Regis and Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth
“The Role of the Media in Post-conflict Development in Three East African Nations”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2018
- Suzannah Evans Comfort, Indiana University
“Responsibility, Vulnerability, and Climate Change: Toward a Model of Influences on Climate Journalism in Developing Countries”
- Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University, and Amanda K. Kennedy, St. Mary’s University
“Care in Action: Disaster Communication Ethics and Preparedness in Vulnerable Communities”
- Summer Harlow, University of Houston, and Danielle Kilgo, Indiana University
“Disrupting the Protest Paradigm: Toward a Model of the Sociological Effects, Routines and Norms Influencing Journalistic Coverage of U.S. Protests”
- Candi S. Carter Olson, Utah State University
“Act Like a Lady: Women’s Press Clubs and the Rise of the Twentieth Century Newswoman”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2017
- K. Hazel Kwon and Monica Chadha, Arizona State University
“News Proximity and Social Media Framing of Terrorism: A Computational Approach toward Large-Scale Framing Research”
- Yu-Hao Lee, University of Florida
“Feeling Right about the News: A Motivated Information Processing Examination of the Effects of News Headline Framing on Selective Exposure and Elaboration”
- Bryan McLaughlin, Texas Tech University
“Tales of Conflict: Political Transportation and Political Polarization”
- Ivanka Pjesivac and Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, University of Georgia
“Virtual Reality Journalism: Emotions and News Credibility”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2016
- Mary Angela Bock, Texas at Austin
“Black and Blue: The Discourse of the Police Accountability Movement”
- Brett G. Johnson, Missouri
“Measuring New Norms of Intolerance Toward Extreme Speech: Assessing Public Opinion of Extreme User-generated Content and the Extralegal Practices of Managing Such Speech”
- Ammina Kothari, Rochester Institute of Technology
“UK Media Coverage of the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis”
- Jessica Gall Myrick, Indiana
“Making the Environment Healthy: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Framing Climate Change as a Public Health Issue”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2015
- Jan Boehmer, University of Miami
“Motivating News Engagement: How Social Cues Affect Learning From News”
- Lindita Camaj, University of Houston
“Media Use of Freedom of Information Law to Set the News Agenda in Bulgaria”
- Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University
“The Emergence of Professional Prizes and the Development of Journalistic Professionalism in the U.S.”
- Edson C. Tandoc, Nanyang Technological University
“What’s the Buzz? Find Out How Buzzfeed is Transforming the Journalistic Field
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2014
- Gang (Kevin) Han, Iowa State University
“Mapping Health Information Flow and Knowledge Diffusion on Microblogging: A Social Network Analysis of Social Influence on Twitter”
- Seth Lewis, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
“Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, Expertise, and Ethics”
- Hyunjin Seo, University of Kansas
“Roles of Visuals During Syrian Conflicts: Toward a Theoretical Model of Visual Propaganda in Social Media Age”
- Nikki Usher, George Washington University
“For-Profit News Start-ups and the Future of Journalism”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2013
- Miao Guo, Ball State University
“Double Vision: Examining Second Screen Usages and Impacts in a Social Television Viewing Environment”
- Beth Knobel, Fordham University
“The Watchdog Still Bites: How Accountability Reporting is Evolving in the Internet Era”
- Marcus Messner, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Marcia DiStaso, Penn State University
“Turning to the Wiki-Doctor? A Study of Wikipedia Health Information Use and Perceived Credibility by Internet Users and Doctors”
- Jingsi Wu, Hofstra University
“Entertainment and Public Sphere in Contemporary China”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2012
- Elina Erzikova, Central Michigan University
“Submissiveness and Subversiveness: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Interdisciplinary Analysis of Russian Media’s Trajectories”
- Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante and Jeannine Relly, University of Arizona
“Silencing Mexico: A Study of Influences on Mexican and U.S. Journalists Reporting along the Northern Border”
- Robert Handley, University of Denver
“Are Global Journalistic Practices and Global Epistemology Emerging? Evidence from Multinational and Extra-National Journalistic Partnerships”
- Weirui Wang, Florida International University, and Nan Yu, North Dakota State University
“The Power of Acculturation: Understanding Online Information Seeking Among New Immigrants”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2011
- Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Missouri
“Teen Pregnancy and Health Literacy: An Entertainment Education Approach to Examining the Impact of 16 and Pregnant”
- Jiyoung Cha, North Texas
“Social Television: Redefinition of Social Interaction among Television Viewers in the 21st Century”
- Jakob D. Jensen, Purdue
“The Influence of Ethnic Newspaper Consumption on Cancer Prevention Behaviors: A Test of the Cognitive Mediation Model”
- Susan Keith, Rutgers
“Homegrown Media Criticism: The U.S. Journalism Review Movement, 1958-1977”
Emerging Scholars Recipients for 2010
- Bill Herman, Hunter College & Minjeong Kim, Colorado State University
“The Internet Defends Itself: The Network Neutrality Debate on the Web”
- Heather LaMarre, University of Minnesota
“Citizen Journalism and Social Media in the 2010 Election: A Multi-method Approach to Understanding Emerging Trends and Innovations in Mass Communication Campaigns”
- Jasmine McNealy, Louisiana State University
“A Survey of Subpoenas Against Anonymous Internet Speakers and Outcomes”
- Leigh Moscowitz, College of Charleston
“Gay Marriage in the News”