Introductory Note: Invisibilities in and of Journalism

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Rita Araújo, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Rita Araújo is an associate researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, where she received her PhD in 2017. She is vice-chair of European Communication Research and Education Association Health Communication section, and associate editor at European Journal of Health Communication. At Communication and Society Research Centre, she is coordinator of the Barometer for Information Quality. She was an assistant professor at Universidade Lusíada – Norte and at Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. She was a visiting scholar at the New York City Food Policy Centre, CUNY School of Public Health — Hunter College, and was a researcher on the European project HeaRT – Health Reporting Training Project, funded by the European Commission, and on the project A Doença em Notícia, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She is a member of several scientific associations, such as Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences, European Communication Research and Education Association and International Communication Association, and regularly participates in their meetings. She carries out research in the fields of journalism, health journalism, health communication, news sources and health literacy.

Pedro Jerónimo, LabCom - Laboratório de Comunicação, Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

Pedro Jerónimo is an assistant researcher at LabCom, a research centre at the University of Beira Interior. He holds a PhD in Information and Communication on Digital Platforms from a joint programme of the University of Porto and the University of Aveiro. His research focuses on local media and local journalism, digital journalism, disinformation, and media literacy, and he has participated in several national and international projects in these fields. He is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism and serves as a reviewer and guest editor for other leading academic journals. He is also co-chair of the Media Production Analysis Working Group of International Association for Media and Communication Research. Prior to academia, he worked as a regional press journalist for around 10 years.

Thomas Hanitzsch, Department of Communication Studies and Media Research, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Thomas Hanitzsch is chair and professor of Communication in the Department of Media and Communication at LMU Munich. A former journalist, his teaching and research focus on global journalism cultures, the transformation of journalism, and comparative methodology. He is a fellow and currently president of the International Communication Association. Among his most recent books are Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Handbook of Journalism Studies: Second Edition (Routledge, 2019). He is leading the Worlds of Journalism study, a multinational project tracing journalism’s cultures and transformation around the world (see https://www.worldsofjournalism.org).

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2025-12-29

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Araújo, R., Jerónimo, P., & Hanitzsch, T. (2025). Introductory Note: Invisibilities in and of Journalism. Comunicação E Sociedade, 48, e025026. https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.48(2025).7061

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Introductory Note

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