Nisha Sridharan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4629569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nisha Sridharan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Sridharan |
| SIGNATURE | SRIDHARAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9531-1885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Living Amoeba of an Organization”
Journalism’s future is often narrated through disruption and decline, yet this framing obscures the everyday creativity through which newswork persists under constraint. This article advances organizational bricolage as a lens for understanding adaptation in journalism, shifting attention from crisis-driven reactions to the generative practices through which journalists and newsrooms continually reconfigure themselves. Drawing on a multi-site eth…
Either We’re Saved, or We’re Doomed
In 2023, Buzzfeed announced the closure of its Pulitzer-winning news division. This study explores identity shifts and memorialization within BuzzFeed News through its 2023 oral history, documenting its rise, decline, and eventual organizational death. Through a discourse analysis of narratives from 57 employees, this research identifies three distinct phases of organizational identity evolution driven by ideological, practical, and emotional dis…
Journalists’ views on the research-practice gap
Journalism practitioners rarely apply research to their practice, and often decline to supply their time to support research. These issues indicate a research-practice gap in journalism. Yet efforts to characterize the gap are in their infancy. This study uses 16 semi-structured interviews with US journalism practitioners to understand, first, how practitioners characterize the applicability of research to their work; and second, how they describ…
It was a Real Town Newspaper”
While ample scholarly attention has focused on the effects of news deserts in local communities, very little academic literature has examined the goodbye discourse in the final statements of local newspapers. This article critically explores the collective identity communicated by news organizations during critical incidents such as COVID-19 that proliferated the existing journalism crisis. Guided by new institutionalism theory, this article exam…
We are the In-betweeners”
With the audience turn in journalism being actively embraced, media organizations are increasingly hiring audience-oriented experts. Drawing on interviews with 57 audience-oriented professionals working in 46 U.S. news organizations, this study situates audience-oriented roles as boundary spanning experts and aims to understand how they conceptualize engagement through job roles and routines and communicate the value of their expertise within the…
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Following the early twenty-first Century’s “age of apologies,” news organizations have been among the institutions apologizing for their historical role in promoting racist rhetoric by directly addressing their inherent racialized biases. Guided by literature on organizational and racial apologia bolstered by the theory of “institutional myth”, this study analyzes 13 apologies published by 12 media organizations to understand how they are perform…
Reclaiming the narratives
Mainstream news outlets continue to ignore Indigenous people or cover them inadequately, resulting in mistrust and alienation by the former towards the latter. Yet, ways to meet Indigenous peoples’ needs for accurate media representation is understudied and undertheorized. Based on 16 in-depth interviews with Native and Indigenous citizens, we develop a conceptual framework of situated multidimensional representation to elucidate the agentic proc…
Reclaiming the narratives
Mainstream news outlets continue to ignore Indigenous people or cover them inadequately, resulting in mistrust and alienation by the former towards the latter. Yet, ways to meet Indigenous peoples’ needs for accurate media representation is understudied and undertheorized. Based on 16 in-depth interviews with Native and Indigenous citizens, we develop a conceptual framework of situated multidimensional representation to elucidate the agentic proc…
It was a Real Town Newspaper”
While ample scholarly attention has focused on the effects of news deserts in local communities, very little academic literature has examined the goodbye discourse in the final statements of local newspapers. This article critically explores the collective identity communicated by news organizations during critical incidents such as COVID-19 that proliferated the existing journalism crisis. Guided by new institutionalism theory, this article exam…
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Following the early twenty-first Century’s “age of apologies,” news organizations have been among the institutions apologizing for their historical role in promoting racist rhetoric by directly addressing their inherent racialized biases. Guided by literature on organizational and racial apologia bolstered by the theory of “institutional myth”, this study analyzes 13 apologies published by 12 media organizations to understand how they are perform…
Reclaiming the narratives
Mainstream news outlets continue to ignore Indigenous people or cover them inadequately, resulting in mistrust and alienation by the former towards the latter. Yet, ways to meet Indigenous peoples’ needs for accurate media representation is understudied and undertheorized. Based on 16 in-depth interviews with Native and Indigenous citizens, we develop a conceptual framework of situated multidimensional representation to elucidate the agentic proc…
We are the In-betweeners”
With the audience turn in journalism being actively embraced, media organizations are increasingly hiring audience-oriented experts. Drawing on interviews with 57 audience-oriented professionals working in 46 U.S. news organizations, this study situates audience-oriented roles as boundary spanning experts and aims to understand how they conceptualize engagement through job roles and routines and communicate the value of their expertise within the…
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Following the early twenty-first Century’s “age of apologies,” news organizations have been among the institutions apologizing for their historical role in promoting racist rhetoric by directly addressing their inherent racialized biases. Guided by literature on organizational and racial apologia bolstered by the theory of “institutional myth”, this study analyzes 13 apologies published by 12 media organizations to understand how they are perform…
It was a Real Town Newspaper”
While ample scholarly attention has focused on the effects of news deserts in local communities, very little academic literature has examined the goodbye discourse in the final statements of local newspapers. This article critically explores the collective identity communicated by news organizations during critical incidents such as COVID-19 that proliferated the existing journalism crisis. Guided by new institutionalism theory, this article exam…
Journalists’ views on the research-practice gap
Journalism practitioners rarely apply research to their practice, and often decline to supply their time to support research. These issues indicate a research-practice gap in journalism. Yet efforts to characterize the gap are in their infancy. This study uses 16 semi-structured interviews with US journalism practitioners to understand, first, how practitioners characterize the applicability of research to their work; and second, how they describ…
“Living Amoeba of an Organization”
Journalism’s future is often narrated through disruption and decline, yet this framing obscures the everyday creativity through which newswork persists under constraint. This article advances organizational bricolage as a lens for understanding adaptation in journalism, shifting attention from crisis-driven reactions to the generative practices through which journalists and newsrooms continually reconfigure themselves. Drawing on a multi-site eth…
Either We’re Saved, or We’re Doomed
In 2023, Buzzfeed announced the closure of its Pulitzer-winning news division. This study explores identity shifts and memorialization within BuzzFeed News through its 2023 oral history, documenting its rise, decline, and eventual organizational death. Through a discourse analysis of narratives from 57 employees, this research identifies three distinct phases of organizational identity evolution driven by ideological, practical, and emotional dis…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Journalism (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)