## Editorial preface

## EVA MAYERHÖFFER

Roskilde University

We are happy to present the 2022 issue of Journalistica. This issue marks  the  journal's  successful  transition  to  a  more  continuous publication  format,  where  incoming  contributions  are  published online first and published in a single issue at the end of each year.

The  2022  edition  opens  with  a  special  issue  on  "Exploring  the boundaries of Nordic journalism". The special issue gathers some of the  most  inspiring  journalism-related  research  presented  at  the NordMedia 2021 conference, held virtually on 18-20 August 2021, and is guest edited by Ester Appelgren from Södertörn University (Sweden)  and  Bente  Kalsnes  from  Kristiania  University  College (Norway), the current and former chair of NordMedia's journalism division. The two guest editors introduce the issue and its contributions in full detail on the following pages.

The issue also includes an article by Kresten Roland Johansen and Jakob  Dybro  Johansen  from  the  Danish  School  of  Media  and Journalism.  The  article  analyzes  the  use  of  expert  sources  in  the three largest daily  newspapers  in  Denmark  (Jyllands  Posten, Politiken, Berlingske Tidende) and compares its findings to earlier research. The results show that expert sources are predominantly used to comment on current events and third-party research rather than on their own research. Almost half of the expert sources used are privately employed and female experts remain heavily underrepresented. Building on these and other findings, the authors question  journalistic criteria  for  selecting  expert  sources  and whether journalists assign authority to expert sources on a sufficiently source-critical basis.

With  the  2022  issue,  we  introduce  a  new  format  called  the Journalistica  methods  section,  edited  by  editorial  board  member Lene Heiselberg (SDU). In the methods section, Journalistica puts a spotlight on research methods used in journalism studies and/or journalism practice in an accessible format (a brief article, often also supplemented with a podcast episode) that can help students and researchers quickly get a grasp on both established and innovative methods in our field. The first piece in this section is by Lene herself, setting the spotlight on the Online Video Research Interview (OVRI) and  the  methodological  considerations  needed  when  moving traditional  individual  or  group  research  interviews  to  a  digital setting - a research technique that is certainly here to stay, also in post-pandemic times. The methods section is open for submissions from all journalism researchers interested in sharing methodological insights and expertise. Please contact Lene (lhei@journalism.sdu.dk) if you are interested in contributing.

Finally, we welcome new editorial board members Kristoffer Holt, professor of Journalism at Linnaeus University in Sweden, and Teke Jacob Ngomba, associate professor at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. Last but not least, a special thanks to Tim Ramsland, Journalistica's editorial assistant, who  has  smoothly  sailed  the  journal  through  the  fundamental restructuring of our editing and publication processes this past year. God læselyst!

On behalf of the Journalistica group of editors, Eva Mayerhöffer, editor-in-chief

## EVA MAYERHÖFFER

Associate Professor Department of Communication and Arts Roskilde University evamay@ruc.dk