Kaitlin C Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaitlin C Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaitlin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1368-0351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Good, the Bad, and the Not-So-Terrible
Critics accuse the Sinclair television ownership group of slashing resources and producing biased news. However, few scholars have examined Sinclair’s news quality. Using an investment-based approach to quality, this study provides the first systematic human-coded examination of Sinclair’s local video news quality. Data from 2,300 stories in 40 U.S. markets indicated lower overall quality at Sinclair-owned stations compared to competitors. Howeve…
“I Empathize With Them”
Journalists have long faced harassment, but recent research shows the issue growing in intensity and impact. With journalists leaving the profession at alarming rates and harassment having lasting effects—like self-censorship and mental health struggles—it is vital scholars explore how newsroom leadership assesses the issue and what actions they take. Using organizational support theory (OST) as a foundation, a survey of U.S. newsroom leaders wor…
On Air and on TikTok
Using in-depth interviews with 17 U.S. on-air TV journalists, this study examines how broadcast journalists are using TikTok, and why they perceive it to be valuable for their professional brand. Using concepts of professional role orientation and role performance, findings indicate that journalists produce mostly behind-the-scenes style content and share very little news on the platform. Those interviewed suggest that the content is intended to …
Taking to the streets
Since 2017, 518 journalists have been attacked while covering protests (U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, 2021) which is one of the most dangerous places to be as a journalist in the United States (Sterne & Peters, 2017). Despite the volatile climate around journalists as they cover increasingly dangerous protests (Luqiu, 2020), there is minimal understanding as to the effect of these events on them (Talabi, et al., 2021). Furthermore, there is a gap i…
Who Teaches About Hostility? Examining Factors for Inclusion in Journalism Curriculum
Journalistic well-being is garnering increasing attention from scholars globally. Nevertheless, minimal research has explored how colleges and universities are teaching about such topics, especially as they pertain to hostility toward the press, which is on the rise. Utilizing a survey of journalism instructors at ACEJMC-accredited U.S.-based universities, this study explores the state of education on the topics of abuse and safety toward journal…
Being there”
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper explores visual journalists personal experience with safety concerns as they gather imagery. It delves into visual journalists' impressions of organizational support and job satisfaction in times of crisis and how that relates to the images they produced and their impression of the journalism industry broadly. In this exploratory study, scholars partnered with the National Press Photographer…
Hostility Toward the Press
Hostility toward the press is on the rise, leading to increased attacks online and offline. This hostility is taking a significant toll on individual journalists, and places a disproportionate burden on non-male journalists and journalists of color. This chapter provides a brief historical overview of hostility toward journalists, and goes on to describe the current sources and channels of hostility toward journalists from actors outside the news…
Hostility Toward the Press
While there is an upsurge of research examining hostility toward the press from those external to the newsroom, there continues to be a lack of critical and robust theoretical foundation and agenda for such inquiry in countries considered to have a democratically free press. Therefore, the objective of this article is to synthesize literature in the study of abuse and harassment of journalists, set forth clear definitions of terms, situate that l…
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment
This mixed-methods study introduces the concept of journalistic visibility and examines its implications. Drawing on diverse approaches for understanding the challenges of visibility labor and personal branding, and applying them to assessing the impact of routinized practices that can make journalists “local celebrities” in their communities, we explore how visibility may be connected to growing levels of abuse from hostile publics. Using data f…
The “Price You Pay” and the “Badge of Honor”
This article utilizes theoretical concepts of sensemaking and affective events theory to analyze and interpret what type of harassment events journalists experience from readers, viewers, and strangers, and their subsequent emotional responses. Findings indicated journalists experience three forms of harassment at work from those external to the newsroom, and that women not only receive more sexual harassment than men, but they experience more ov…
Anything for the Shot”
The harassment of journalists is nothing new; however, much of the harassment literature has focused on the abuse of journalists online, while neglecting encounters that occur offline. As such, this study explores the experiences and effects of in-the-field harassment that occurs as journalists cover protests in the U.S., and how harassment experiences at protests vary for men and women journalists. Using a survey of 339 journalists and in-depth …
When Journalists are Voiceless
Often trivialized within the broader journalistic field, lifestyle journalists would seem to have the dream job: the opportunity to get paid to do what they love. The present study explores an under-discussed but material aspect of the job; namely, how lifestyle journalists undertake issues of hostility. Through the lens of the theory of hostility towards the press and in-depth interviews with lifestyle journalists (n = 24), this study argues tha…
Reciprocal journalism’s double-edged sword
Reciprocal journalism is a daily practice for American journalists. Previous studies show it benefits journalists, newsrooms, and audiences (e.g. Coddington, Lewis & Holton, 2018). Conversely, journalists also experience harassment when interacting with audiences online, causing them to view audiences less favorably (Lewis, Zamith, & Coddington, 2020). Through in-depth interviews with 24 professional and former journalists, this study finds journ…
Dark Participation' Without Representation
Social media platforms have become an integral part of journalistic work. These tools allow journalists to pursue stronger, more intimate connections with their audiences, to cultivate their own professional identities or 'brands,' and to advocate for improved working conditions within their organizations. Yet, social media platforms have also created new risks and challenges for journalists, most notably in the form of dark participation, which …
Harassment’s Toll on Democracy
Journalists in democratically “free” countries have faced harassment from those external to the newsroom for decades, though that has recently increased in the United States by many accounts. To assess the effects of such harassment in the United States, 32 journalists were interviewed and more than 500 surveyed about their experiences with harassment, and how it has affected their professional work. Journalists’ emotions, gender, and the frequen…
The Power of Images? Visual Journalists’ Assessment of the Impact of Imagery
Academic debate exists regarding the actual power that images possess to create journalistic impact—or outcomes of reporting. While there is a growing body of research on journalistic impact, it is an underexplored research area, and there are no known studies specifically bringing together journalistic impact research with photojournalism literature on the power of imagery. Through surveys, this research explores fundamental questions about jour…
This is Still their Lives
Graphic and gut-wrenching images of death, violence, and pain fill our news media, despite debate about their effect on audiences and their potential to harm their subjects. This research uses in-depth interviews with photojournalists to explore the decision-making process and ethical considerations involved in capturing and publishing such images. Research found participants justify taking and publishing graphic images as a way to empower subjec…
Journalists, harassment, and emotional labor
At a time of growing threats to the press worldwide, including in supposedly ‘safe’ developed democracies, this article explores the nature of harassment perpetrated by strangers, one-time sources, and viewers against women broadcast journalists working at US local television stations. The study investigates the emotional labor – the work of managing one’s emotions to keep others happy – that is required for journalists negotiating such harassmen…
Journalists, harassment, and emotional labor
At a time of growing threats to the press worldwide, including in supposedly ‘safe’ developed democracies, this article explores the nature of harassment perpetrated by strangers, one-time sources, and viewers against women broadcast journalists working at US local television stations. The study investigates the emotional labor – the work of managing one’s emotions to keep others happy – that is required for journalists negotiating such harassmen…
Harassment’s Toll on Democracy
Journalists in democratically “free” countries have faced harassment from those external to the newsroom for decades, though that has recently increased in the United States by many accounts. To assess the effects of such harassment in the United States, 32 journalists were interviewed and more than 500 surveyed about their experiences with harassment, and how it has affected their professional work. Journalists’ emotions, gender, and the frequen…
Reciprocal journalism’s double-edged sword
Reciprocal journalism is a daily practice for American journalists. Previous studies show it benefits journalists, newsrooms, and audiences (e.g. Coddington, Lewis & Holton, 2018). Conversely, journalists also experience harassment when interacting with audiences online, causing them to view audiences less favorably (Lewis, Zamith, & Coddington, 2020). Through in-depth interviews with 24 professional and former journalists, this study finds journ…
This is Still their Lives
Graphic and gut-wrenching images of death, violence, and pain fill our news media, despite debate about their effect on audiences and their potential to harm their subjects. This research uses in-depth interviews with photojournalists to explore the decision-making process and ethical considerations involved in capturing and publishing such images. Research found participants justify taking and publishing graphic images as a way to empower subjec…
Anything for the Shot”
The harassment of journalists is nothing new; however, much of the harassment literature has focused on the abuse of journalists online, while neglecting encounters that occur offline. As such, this study explores the experiences and effects of in-the-field harassment that occurs as journalists cover protests in the U.S., and how harassment experiences at protests vary for men and women journalists. Using a survey of 339 journalists and in-depth …
The Power of Images? Visual Journalists’ Assessment of the Impact of Imagery
Academic debate exists regarding the actual power that images possess to create journalistic impact—or outcomes of reporting. While there is a growing body of research on journalistic impact, it is an underexplored research area, and there are no known studies specifically bringing together journalistic impact research with photojournalism literature on the power of imagery. Through surveys, this research explores fundamental questions about jour…
When Journalists are Voiceless
Often trivialized within the broader journalistic field, lifestyle journalists would seem to have the dream job: the opportunity to get paid to do what they love. The present study explores an under-discussed but material aspect of the job; namely, how lifestyle journalists undertake issues of hostility. Through the lens of the theory of hostility towards the press and in-depth interviews with lifestyle journalists (n = 24), this study argues tha…
Being there”
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper explores visual journalists personal experience with safety concerns as they gather imagery. It delves into visual journalists' impressions of organizational support and job satisfaction in times of crisis and how that relates to the images they produced and their impression of the journalism industry broadly. In this exploratory study, scholars partnered with the National Press Photographer…
This is Still their Lives
Graphic and gut-wrenching images of death, violence, and pain fill our news media, despite debate about their effect on audiences and their potential to harm their subjects. This research uses in-depth interviews with photojournalists to explore the decision-making process and ethical considerations involved in capturing and publishing such images. Research found participants justify taking and publishing graphic images as a way to empower subjec…
Journalists, harassment, and emotional labor
At a time of growing threats to the press worldwide, including in supposedly ‘safe’ developed democracies, this article explores the nature of harassment perpetrated by strangers, one-time sources, and viewers against women broadcast journalists working at US local television stations. The study investigates the emotional labor – the work of managing one’s emotions to keep others happy – that is required for journalists negotiating such harassmen…
Harassment’s Toll on Democracy
Journalists in democratically “free” countries have faced harassment from those external to the newsroom for decades, though that has recently increased in the United States by many accounts. To assess the effects of such harassment in the United States, 32 journalists were interviewed and more than 500 surveyed about their experiences with harassment, and how it has affected their professional work. Journalists’ emotions, gender, and the frequen…
The Power of Images? Visual Journalists’ Assessment of the Impact of Imagery
Academic debate exists regarding the actual power that images possess to create journalistic impact—or outcomes of reporting. While there is a growing body of research on journalistic impact, it is an underexplored research area, and there are no known studies specifically bringing together journalistic impact research with photojournalism literature on the power of imagery. Through surveys, this research explores fundamental questions about jour…
When Journalists are Voiceless
Often trivialized within the broader journalistic field, lifestyle journalists would seem to have the dream job: the opportunity to get paid to do what they love. The present study explores an under-discussed but material aspect of the job; namely, how lifestyle journalists undertake issues of hostility. Through the lens of the theory of hostility towards the press and in-depth interviews with lifestyle journalists (n = 24), this study argues tha…
Reciprocal journalism’s double-edged sword
Reciprocal journalism is a daily practice for American journalists. Previous studies show it benefits journalists, newsrooms, and audiences (e.g. Coddington, Lewis & Holton, 2018). Conversely, journalists also experience harassment when interacting with audiences online, causing them to view audiences less favorably (Lewis, Zamith, & Coddington, 2020). Through in-depth interviews with 24 professional and former journalists, this study finds journ…
Dark Participation' Without Representation
Social media platforms have become an integral part of journalistic work. These tools allow journalists to pursue stronger, more intimate connections with their audiences, to cultivate their own professional identities or 'brands,' and to advocate for improved working conditions within their organizations. Yet, social media platforms have also created new risks and challenges for journalists, most notably in the form of dark participation, which …
Hostility Toward the Press
Hostility toward the press is on the rise, leading to increased attacks online and offline. This hostility is taking a significant toll on individual journalists, and places a disproportionate burden on non-male journalists and journalists of color. This chapter provides a brief historical overview of hostility toward journalists, and goes on to describe the current sources and channels of hostility toward journalists from actors outside the news…
Hostility Toward the Press
While there is an upsurge of research examining hostility toward the press from those external to the newsroom, there continues to be a lack of critical and robust theoretical foundation and agenda for such inquiry in countries considered to have a democratically free press. Therefore, the objective of this article is to synthesize literature in the study of abuse and harassment of journalists, set forth clear definitions of terms, situate that l…
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment
This mixed-methods study introduces the concept of journalistic visibility and examines its implications. Drawing on diverse approaches for understanding the challenges of visibility labor and personal branding, and applying them to assessing the impact of routinized practices that can make journalists “local celebrities” in their communities, we explore how visibility may be connected to growing levels of abuse from hostile publics. Using data f…
The “Price You Pay” and the “Badge of Honor”
This article utilizes theoretical concepts of sensemaking and affective events theory to analyze and interpret what type of harassment events journalists experience from readers, viewers, and strangers, and their subsequent emotional responses. Findings indicated journalists experience three forms of harassment at work from those external to the newsroom, and that women not only receive more sexual harassment than men, but they experience more ov…
Anything for the Shot”
The harassment of journalists is nothing new; however, much of the harassment literature has focused on the abuse of journalists online, while neglecting encounters that occur offline. As such, this study explores the experiences and effects of in-the-field harassment that occurs as journalists cover protests in the U.S., and how harassment experiences at protests vary for men and women journalists. Using a survey of 339 journalists and in-depth …
Taking to the streets
Since 2017, 518 journalists have been attacked while covering protests (U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, 2021) which is one of the most dangerous places to be as a journalist in the United States (Sterne & Peters, 2017). Despite the volatile climate around journalists as they cover increasingly dangerous protests (Luqiu, 2020), there is minimal understanding as to the effect of these events on them (Talabi, et al., 2021). Furthermore, there is a gap i…
Who Teaches About Hostility? Examining Factors for Inclusion in Journalism Curriculum
Journalistic well-being is garnering increasing attention from scholars globally. Nevertheless, minimal research has explored how colleges and universities are teaching about such topics, especially as they pertain to hostility toward the press, which is on the rise. Utilizing a survey of journalism instructors at ACEJMC-accredited U.S.-based universities, this study explores the state of education on the topics of abuse and safety toward journal…
Being there”
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper explores visual journalists personal experience with safety concerns as they gather imagery. It delves into visual journalists' impressions of organizational support and job satisfaction in times of crisis and how that relates to the images they produced and their impression of the journalism industry broadly. In this exploratory study, scholars partnered with the National Press Photographer…
“I Empathize With Them”
Journalists have long faced harassment, but recent research shows the issue growing in intensity and impact. With journalists leaving the profession at alarming rates and harassment having lasting effects—like self-censorship and mental health struggles—it is vital scholars explore how newsroom leadership assesses the issue and what actions they take. Using organizational support theory (OST) as a foundation, a survey of U.S. newsroom leaders wor…
On Air and on TikTok
Using in-depth interviews with 17 U.S. on-air TV journalists, this study examines how broadcast journalists are using TikTok, and why they perceive it to be valuable for their professional brand. Using concepts of professional role orientation and role performance, findings indicate that journalists produce mostly behind-the-scenes style content and share very little news on the platform. Those interviewed suggest that the content is intended to …
The Good, the Bad, and the Not-So-Terrible
Critics accuse the Sinclair television ownership group of slashing resources and producing biased news. However, few scholars have examined Sinclair’s news quality. Using an investment-based approach to quality, this study provides the first systematic human-coded examination of Sinclair’s local video news quality. Data from 2,300 stories in 40 U.S. markets indicated lower overall quality at Sinclair-owned stations compared to competitors. Howeve…
Political science (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Media Studies and Communication (12 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Harassment (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 works) · Journalism (9 works) · Law (8 works)