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Journal Article 1: Bock, M. A. (2011). You really, truly, have to “be there”: Video journalism as a social and material construction. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 88, 705–718. Article first published online: December 1, 2011;Issue published: December 1, 2011

Abstract: News organizations are turning increasingly to video journalism as survival strategy in the era of convergence. Video journalism, the process by which one person shoots, writes, and edits video stories, represents both a socially and materially constructed form of news and adds a new dimension to daily work practices. This qualitative project examines the daily work practices of video journalists in a variety of organizational settings, including newspapers and television stations. This project found that the material requirements of video journalism have the potential to shift control of some aspects of news narrative away from journalists and toward their sources.

Journal Article 2: Reich, Z. (2011). Comparing reporters' work across print, radio, and online: Converged origination, diverged packaging. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 88, 285–300. Article first published online: June 1, 2011;Issue published: June 1, 2011

Abstract: This paper compares how eighty reporters from three media—print, online, and radio—obtained a sample of their items, seeking to establish which of two schools of thought is closer to reality: scholars who contend that each news medium embodies a unique “regime” of content creation, or those who argue that the different media maintain similar news reporting standards. A series of face-to-face reconstruction interviews with reporters from nine leading Israeli national news organizations suggests that the three media are not unique factories of news, but rather unique packing and distribution houses of similarly obtained materials.