The Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (CMJS) is looking for a PhD student in “Investigative journalism and interpretive “deep” reporting” within the HAICu research project.

This specific PhD position explores the development of investigative journalism and interpretive “deep” reporting in Dutch news media. It will study recurring critiques of journalism being too much focused on single news events while missing the broader story these are situated within. The focus of the project will be on the development of investigative and interpretive reporting on migration and discrimination that aims to make sense of news events by situating them in longitudinal developments and debates. It will analyse newspaper, television, radio and online reporting on sensitive political issues and debates on that develop over time using multimodal discourse analysis. It will analyse the interrelatedness of these various modalities and study reporting practices through interviews with journalists.

The project will be supervised by prof. Marcel Broersma and prof. Yael de Haan at the University of Groningen. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of Journalism Studies and Digital Humanities.

Within the dynamic HAICu team, the PhD researcher will participate in Work Package 1, titled “Multimodal AI Research for Multimodal Heritage and Deep journalism”. In this WP, we will collaborate with Journalism Studies, AI and machine learning experts from the University of Utrecht, the University of Amsterdam, Hogeschool Utrecht as well as a range of cultural heritage partners, such as the Dutch National Library and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

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