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Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
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Appelman, A., & Hettinga, K. E. (in press). Innate qualities or learned skills? Copy editors disagree about the need for training. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776958241277349
Appelman, A., & Hettinga, K. E. (in press). Job satisfaction in the COVID-19 era: A survey of copy editors across fields. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231206370
 
Jia, H., Appelman, A., Wu, M., & Bien-Aimé, S. (2024). “News author or journalistic tool? Effects of perceived AI contribution on message and source credibility.” Computer in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2024.100093
 
Appelman, A. (2024). Numbers in news articles: Effects of presence, errors, and (false) recall. Electronic News, 18(2), 67-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431231190846

Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Schmierbach, M., Appelman, A., & Boyle, M. (2024). The influence of fact-checking is disputed!: The role of party identification in processing and sharing fact-checked social media posts. American Behavioral Scientist, 68(10), 1345-1365. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642231174335
 
Appelman, A., & Schmierbach, M. (2024). Coverage of public opinion polls: Journalists’ perceptions and readers’ responses. Journalism Practice, 18(4), 763-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2058064

Appelman, A. (2022). Written in code: Exploring the negative effects of acronyms in news headlines. Journalism Practice, 16(7), 1495-1511. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1867622
Appelman, A., & Hettinga, K. E. (2021). Correcting online content: The influence of news outlet reputation. Journalism Practice, 15(10), 1562-1579. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1784776
Appelman, A., & Hettinga, K. E. (2021). The ethics of transparency: A review of corrections language in international journalistic codes of ethics. Journal of Media Ethics, 36(2), 97-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2021.1899826
 
Formentin, M., Hettinga, K. E., & Appelman, A. (2021). Two wrongs don’t make a right: Journalists’ perceptions and usages of press releases. Corporate Reputation Review, 24(2), 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41299-019-00091-z
 
Hettinga, K. E., & Appelman, A. (2020). Errors, requests, apologies: A case study of 50 years of corrections in a college newspaper. College Media Review, 57http://cmreview.org/errors-requests-apologies/
 
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Schmierbach, M., Appelman, A., & Boyle, M. (2020). The ineffectiveness of fact-checking labels on news memes and articles. Mass Communication and Society, 23(5), 682-704. Special Issue: “What IS News?” https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2020.1733613
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Appelman, A. (2020). “ALPHABET SOUP”: Examining acronym and abbreviation style in headlines. Journalism Practice, 14(7), 880-895. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2019.1642125
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Schmierbach, M., Appelman, A., & Boyle, M. (2020). For the birds: Media sourcing, Twitter and the minimal effect on audience perceptions. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(2), 350-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518780438
Appelman, A., & Hettinga, K. E. (2019). Error message: Creation of a revised codebook for analysis of newspaper corrections. Newspaper Research Journal, 40(1), 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532918814452
Appelman, A., & Schmierbach, M. (2018). Make no mistake? Cognitive and perceptual effects of grammatical errors in news articles. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 95(4), 930-947. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699017736040
Hettinga, K. E., Appelman, A., Otmar, C., Posada, A., & Thompson, A. (2018). Comparing and contrasting corrected errors at four newspapers. Newspaper Research Journal, 39(2), 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532918775685
Appelman, A. & Asmara, M. (2018). A crisis by any other name? Examining the effects of journalistic “crisis labeling” on corporate perceptions. Newspaper Research Journal, 39(1), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532918761060
Hoewe, J., Appelman, A., & Stevens, E. (2017). Mr. Mom in the news: The relationship between stereotypes and perceptions of gendered news stories. Communication Research Reports, 34(1),
11-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2016.1224163
Hettinga, K. E., & Appelman, A. (2016). Repeating error lowers perception of correction's importance. Newspaper Research Journal, 37(3), 249-260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532916664376
Hettinga, K. E., Clark, R., & Appelman, A. (2016). Exploring the use of corrections on college newspapers’ websites. College Media Review, 53, 4-17. http://cmreview.org/3380-2/
Appelman, A., & Sundar, S. S. (2016). Measuring message credibility: Scale construction and validation with news articles. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 93(1), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699015606057
Appelman, A., & Hettinga, K. E. (2015). Do news corrections affect credibility? Not necessarily. Newspaper Research Journal, 36(4), 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532915618403
Zhong, B., & Appelman, A. (2014). How college students read and write on the Web: The role of ICT use in processing online information. Computers in Human Behavior, 38, 201-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.037
Hettinga, K. E., & Appelman, A. (2014). Corrections of newspaper errors have little impact. Newspaper Research Journal, 35(1), 51-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/073953291403500105
Appelman, A., & Bolls, P. (2011). Article recall, credibility lower with grammar errors. Newspaper Research Journal, 32(2), 50-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/073953291103200205

 
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Bien-Aimé, S., Appelman, A., Jankowski, S., & Day, M. (2019). Promoting journalism: Analysis of education programs’ homepages. In Bernier, M. & Guenee, P. (Eds.), Teaching journalism in a disruptive age: 5th World Journalism Education Congress Proceedings (pp. 303-318), Paris, France: World Journalism Education Congress.
 
Jankowski, S., Day, M., Bien-Aimé, S., & Appelman, A. (2019). “Trump Bump”: U.S. students define journalism education in the age of Trump. In Bernier, M. & Guenee, P. (Eds.), Teaching journalism in a disruptive age: 5th World Journalism Education Congress Proceedings (pp. 749-762), Paris, France: World Journalism Education Congress.
 
Truta, T. M., Kain, P., Atnafu, T., Campan, A., Nolan, J., & Appelman, A. (2019). Twitter streaming API data collection for infrequent keywords. In R. Stahlbock, G. M. Weiss, & M. Abdou-Nasr (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Data Science (pp. 157-163), Las Vegas, NV, USA: CSREA Press.
White Paper

 

Wilner, T., Muse, H., Coddington, M., Hernández, F. G., Johnson, P. R., McLemore, D., Muddiman, A., Rhodes, S., Sridharan, N., Appelman, A., Assaf., C. T., Bentley, J., Núñez-Mussa, E., Green-Barber, L., Lewis, S. C., Bélair-Gagnon., V., Golen, J., Holton, A., & Mahmood, R. (2024). The research-practice gap in journalism: Why it exists and how we can address it. (White paper). Journalism Bridging Project and American Press Institute. https://www.journalismbridgingproject.com/white-paper
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