I’m delighted to share some exciting news from the recent conference of the International Communication Association, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

My paper “‘How much love are you going to give this brand?’ Lifestyle journalists on commercial influences in their work”, which I authored with colleagues Thomas Hanitzsch and Corinna Lauerer, won a Best Faculty Paper award in the Journalism Studies Division.

The paper is a result of small grant I won four years ago, which allowed for an analysis of Australian and German lifestyle journalists. Other results from the study have already been published in Media, Culture & Society, and this particular paper has been accepted for publication in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism. Below is the full reference:

Hanusch, Folker, Hanitzsch, Thomas & Lauerer, Corinna (2015). ‘How much love are you going to give this brand?’ Lifestyle journalists on commercial influences in their work. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association. 21-25 May, San Juan, Puerto Rico.