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Ferrucci, Patrick

Professor

Positions

Faculty Director, Faculty Affairs
Professor, Journalism
Chair, Journalism

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr. Ferrucci's mixed-method research examines various aspects of media sociology. His primary focus studies how technology (analytics, social media, digital tools) and economics (market orientation, market models) affect news production in digital journalism newsrooms and journalistic identity.

keywords

media sociology, digital journalism, media studies, organizational influence on news, funding models of news, media theory, information flow, media ethics, sports communication

Publications

selected publications

book
chapter
- Ombudsman. 1181-1182. 2022
- Studying influence from outside institutions on journalism: A look toward the future.. Ed. Ferrucci, Patrick. 180-192. 2022
- The Wire 2022
- Populism, journalism and the limits of reflexivity: The case of Donald J. Trump. 40-54. 2020
- Public service journalism and engagement in hyperlocal nonprofits. 439-447. 2020
- Pseudo‐Events and Photo Opportunities. 1-4. 2019
- Digital marketplace: The influence of market forces on normative role in the Internet age. 109-124. 2018
- Who am I? Digital journalists’ perception of professional identity. 40-52. 2018
- A tale of two newsrooms: How market orientation affects web analytics use. 58-75. 2015
conference proceeding
- Advertising Primed: How Professional Identity Affects Moral Reasoning. Journal of Business Ethics. 175-187. 2021
- Journalists primed: How professional identity affects moral decision making 2017
journal article
- What is media ethics? A systematic review charting the evolution of a subfield 2026
- The disruption of sports journalism: The discursive explanation of mass precarity. Journal of Sports Media. 85-109. 2025
- "Part of the gig:" Negotiating the press conference rite surrounding Naomi Osaka's "bombshell" decision. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 2147-2165. 2025
- A theoretical model for understanding journalism in film. 1-30. 2025
- Shocking the system: The Athletic, a journalistic merger and the (preventable) ensuing fallout. International Journal of Communication. 1019-1036. 2025
- Mainstream News Media Trust, Countermedia Attendance, and Political Learning. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 2025
- ‘Zero Human Emotion’: AI Anchors and the Normative Repercussions. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. 118-133. 2025
- Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?. Communication Research. 32-60. 2025
- Countermedia consumption and right-wing extremity. Comunicazione Politica. 49-69. 2025
- Revenue & Readership: Rescuing & Reviving Rural Journalism. Journalism Practice. 1-19. 2025
- Engagement as Revenue in Journalism: Turning Community, Comments, and Access into Economic Viability. Journalism Studies. 1738-1756. 2024
- Building Boundaries: The Depiction of Digital Journalists in Popular Culture. Journalism Practice. 2045-2061. 2024
- Local is now national: The Athletic as a model for online local news. New Media & Society. 4219-4235. 2024
- No More Market-Driven Than Hard News: Lifestyle Journalists' Market Drive and Perceived Audience Obligations. Journalism Studies. 723-737. 2024
- Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis. Environmental Communication. 390-405. 2024
- Keeping up with the Boundaries of Advertising: Paradigm Repair after Pepsi's Big Mess. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 185-204. 2024
- The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism. Journal of Communication. 212-224. 2024
- Community Gatekeeping: Understanding Information Dissemination by Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journalism Practice. 1902-1918. 2023
- Resisting the resistance (journalism): Ben Smith, Ronan Farrow, and delineating boundaries of practice. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 513-530. 2023
- Side-by-Side Sports Reporters: A Between-Subjects Experiment of the Effect of Gender in Reporting on the NFL. Communication and Sport. 115-134. 2023
- A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists. Media and Communication. 371-380. 2023
- Covering sports, when there’s no sports: COVID, market orientation, paywalls and the; Athletic. Newspaper Research Journal. 389-406. 2022
- Joining the Team: Metajournalistic Discourse, Paradigm Repair, the Athletic and Sports Journalism Practice. Journalism Practice. 2064-2082. 2022
- Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology. Digital Journalism. 1569-1590. 2022
- Remodeling the Hierarchy: An Organization-Centric Model of Influence for Media Sociology Research. Journalism Studies. 525-543. 2022
- 'Pivoting to instability’: Metajournalistic discourse, reflexivity and the economics and effects of a shrinking industry. International Journal of Communication. 4095-4114. 2022
- The Liability of Newness: Journalism, Innovation and the Issue of Core Competencies. Journalism Studies. 1436-1449. 2021
- Inside or out? Perceptions of how Differing Types of Comment Moderation Impact Practice. Journalism Studies. 1010-1027. 2021
- Does messaging matter? Investigating the influence of media headlines on perceptions and attitudes of the in-group and out-group. Journal of Marketing Communications. 20-30. 2021
- What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist. Digital Journalism. 1298-1316. 2020
- Exposure to Difference on Facebook, Trust, and Political Knowledge. Mass Communication and Society. 779-809. 2020
- Framing Standing Rock: Market orientation and television news. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies. 233-251. 2020
- What's it all mean? Examining metajournalistic discourse concerning big data. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies. 253-269. 2020
- Why Do People Share Ideologically Extreme, False, and Misleading Content on Social Media? A Self-Report and Trace Data-Based Analysis of Countermedia Content Dissemination on Facebook and Twitter. Human Communication Research. 357-384. 2020
- Public Relations Primed: An Update on Practitioners' Moral Reasoning, from Moral Development to Moral Maintenance. Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality. 164-179. 2020
- A Spherical Rendering of Deviant Information Resilience. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 492-508. 2020
- Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook. New Media & Society. 1095-1115. 2020
- Escaping the news desert: Nonprofit news and open-system journalism organizations. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 489-506. 2020
- On the Boundaries: Professional Photojournalists Navigating Identity in an Age of Technological Democratization. Digital Journalism. 367-385. 2020
- It is in the numbers: How market orientation impacts journalists' use of news metrics. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 244-261. 2020
- From "Public Journalism" to "Engaged Journalism": Imagined Audiences and Denigrating Discourse. International Journal of Communication. 1586-1604. 2020
- Blurred Boundaries: Toning Ethics in News Routines. Journalism Studies. 2167-2181. 2019
- Ferrucci P, Taylor R. "Blurred Boundaries: Toning Ethics in News Routines." Journalism Studies. 20 (15) (November 18, 2019): 2167-2181. (Published online February 07, 2019). Journalism Studies. 2019
- Journalists Primed: How Professional Identity Affects Moral Decision Making. Journalism Practice. 896-912. 2019
- How market orientation and ethics affected coverage of marijuana legalization. Newspaper Research Journal. 391-404. 2019
- ‘Ask what you can do to the Army’: A textual analysis of the underground GI press during the Vietnam War. Media, War and Conflict. 354-367. 2019
- Punishing Brady, redeeming Brady: a fantasy theme analysis of memes from the 2015 Deflategate controversy. Atlantic Journal of Communication. 153-168. 2019
- The End of Ombudsmen? 21st-Century Journalism and Reader Representatives. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 288-307. 2019
- And the award goes to: Examining the effects of “trophy culture” on millennials. 39-51. 2019
- Examining TMZ: What traditional digital journalism can learn from celebrity news. Communication Studies. 172-189. 2019
- Lessons from the Megachurch: Understanding Journalism's Turn to Membership. Journal of Media and Religion. 61-73. 2019
- Taking the White Gloves Off: The Portrayal of Female Journalists on Good Girls Revolt. Journal of Magazine Media. 50-71. 2019
- The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism. Media and Communication. 45-55. 2019
- Are You Experienced? How years in field affects digital journalists' perceptions of a changing industry. Journalism Studies. 2417-2432. 2018
- Money matters? Journalists' perception of the effects of a weak market orientation. Convergence. 424-438. 2018
- God and sport: Orientalism in Sports Illustrated coverage of religion. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies. 371-386. 2018
- Access, Deconstructed: Metajournalistic Discourse and Photojournalism’s Shift Away From Geophysical Access. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 121-137. 2018
- Networked: Social media’s impact on news production in digital newsrooms. Newspaper Research Journal. 6-17. 2018
- On The Wire: An analysis of 'the most accurate presentation' of a newsroom ever. Journal of Popular Television. 3-18. 2018
- "We’ve lost the basics”: Professionals’ perceptions of journalism education. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. 410-420. 2018
- Domestic violence and sports news: How gender affects people’s understanding. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies. 70-87. 2018
- God and sport: How Sports Illustrated covers religion. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies. 371-386. 2018
- Mo "Meta" Blues:How Popular Culture Can Act as Metajournalistic Discourse. International Journal of Communication. 4821-4838. 2018
- On The Wire: A textual analysis of “the most realistic depiction of a newsroom ever". Journal of Popular Television. 3-18. 2018
- Populism, Journalism, and the Limits of Reflexivity: The case of Donald J. Trump. Journalism Studies. 512-526. 2018
- The Spiral of Stereotyping: Social Identity Theory and NFL Quarterbacks. Howard Journal of Communications. 103-121. 2018
- Mourning and Grief on Facebook: An Examination of Motivations for Interacting With the Deceased.. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 122-140. 2017
- Shift in influence: an argument for changes in studying gatekeeping. Media Practice and Education. 103-119. 2017
- Making the news popular: Mobilizing US news audiences. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 926-927. 2017
- To tweet and retweet: How NFL writers gatekept the Ray Rice scandal on Twitter. Journal of Sports Media. 1-22. 2017
- Print Versus Digital: How Medium Matters on House of Cards. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 124-139. 2017
- Exploring Public Service Journalism: Digitally Native News Nonprofits and Engagement. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 355-370. 2017
- Giving in or giving up: What makes journalists use audience feedback in their news work?. Computers in Human Behavior. 149-156. 2017
- Race and the Deep Ball: Applying Stereotypes to NFL Quarterbacks. International Journal of Sport Communication. 41-57. 2017
- Technology allows audience role in news construction. Newspaper Research Journal. 79-89. 2017
- Gender games: The female journalists on House of Cards. Journalism Practice. 493-508. 2017
- Review of Making the News Popular, by Anthony Nadler. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 926-927. 2017
- Times Are a Changin': How a merger affects the construction of news processes. Journalism Studies. 247-264. 2017
- WHO'S IN, WHO'S OUT? Constructing the identity of digital journalists. Digital Journalism. 868-883. 2017
- Native Advertising Is the New Journalism: How Deception Affects Social Responsibility. American Behavioral Scientist, The. 1408-1424. 2016
- Market matters. Critical Studies in Television. 41-58. 2016
- Foul Ball: Audience-Held Stereotypes of Baseball Players. Howard Journal of Communications. 68-84. 2016
- Generalizing Baseball: Holding and Applying Stereotypes to America’s Pastime. Journal of Sports Media. 101-121. 2016
- Get with the program: A content analysis of undergraduate advertising education online 2016
- To Tweet and Retweet: nfl Journalists as Gatekeepers in the Ray Rice Scandal on Twitter. Journal of Sports Media. 1-22. 2016
- As Seen on TV: How the Pitch Depicts the Advertising Creative Process. Journal of Advertising Education. 18-29. 2015
- Public journalism no more: The digitally native news nonprofit and public service journalism. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 904-919. 2015
- Murder Incorporated. Electronic News. 108-121. 2015
- Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students: Is facebooking depressing?. Computers in Human Behavior. 139-146. 2015
- Double dribble: The stereotypical narrative of Magic and Bird. Journalism history. 93-102. 2015
- Follow the leader: How leadership can affect the future of community journalism. 19-35. 2015
- His women problem: An analysis of gender on The Newsroom. 1-30. 2015
- Primary differences: How market orientation can affect content. Media Practice and Education. 195-210. 2015
- The Facebook experience: A phenomenology of Facebook. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies. 176-197. 2015
- It's a mad, mad, mad, ad world: A feminist critique of Mad Men. Women's Studies International Forum. 93-101. 2014
- So says the stars: A textual analysis of Glamour, Essence and Teen Vogue horoscopes. Women's Studies International Forum. 34-41. 2014
- Modeling Reality. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 99-107. 2014
- Pseudo newsgathering: Analyzing journalists’ use of pseudo-events on The Wire. 135-169. 2014
- A Black and White Game: Racial Stereotypes in Baseball. Howard Journal of Communications. 309-325. 2013
- Unprofessional, Ineffective, and Weak: A Textual Analysis of the Portrayal of Female Journalists onSports Night. Journal of Mass Media Ethics: exploring questions of media morality. 248-262. 2012

editor of

chapter
- Studying influence from outside institutions on journalism: A look toward the future.. 180-192. 2022

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia 2013
M.A., Emerson College 2003
B.A., Providence College 2001

awards and honors

Top Faculty Paper Award - Electronic News Division, conferred by Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2020
Top Faculty Paper Award - Sports Communication Division, conferred by Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2020
Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, conferred by Graduate School, 2019

International Activities

geographic focus

Austria Country
Canada Country
Czech Republic Country
Egypt Country
Germany Country
Japan Country
Netherlands Country
Norway Country
Philippines Country
Singapore Country
Ukraine Country
United Kingdom Country
United Republic of Tanzania Country
Zambia Country

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4535-0210

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ui4rbugAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Ferrucci