## Editorial preface

## EVA MAYERHÖFFER

Roskilde University

2025  has  been  an  eventful  year  for  Journalistica.  We  have  -  with funding from Dagspressens Fond - introduced an award for the best Danish master thesis in Journalism, and we have received funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) that will help secure and strengthen the journal's editorial activities in 2026-2029.

The grant from DFF is not only an important step in the further consolidation  and  professionalization  of  Journalistica's  work,  but also an acknowledgment of the efforts we have invested in broadening  Journalistica's  geographic  scope,  readership  and  portfolio,  as well  as  in  improving  our  editorial  operations,  over  the  past  five years.

The 2025 issue of Journalistica includes a special section with a media-historical focus on 'People and networks in the history of Nordic journalism'. The two guest editors, Heidi Kurvinen and Emil Eiby Seidenfaden, will introduce the section and its six articles in full detail on the following pages.

Moreover, this year's issue contains three articles in the open section. The article 'Visualizing national and international deaths with data during the COVID-19 pandemic', written by Ester Appelgren, Francesca Morini and Amanda Maya, combines Journalism Studies with Visualization Research to analyze how journalistic visualizations  about  the  COVID-19  pandemic differed in representing national and international deaths, e.g. by distracting audiences from national death counts.

In the article 'No-panic pragmatism: Nordic journalism educators' preparedness to teach artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024', Maarit Jaakkola and Jenny Wiik argue - with point of departure in a survey conducted across Nordic journalism education institutions - for the need of journalism education institutions to take a more active role in supporting educators through formal training in AI and the provision of  clear AI guidelines, and to expand the curriculum on AI literacy  to  go  beyond  practical  newsroom applications to include critical analysis and ethical considerations.

In the article 'The (far-) right kind of feeling: How descriptions of emotional experience perform discourses in Swedish right-wing alternative news media', Magnus Danielson analyses how Swedish far-right  media  discursively  legitimize  and  delegitimize  different emotional experiences, and in this process frame what and who is worthy of emotional attention.

The issue also contains four method briefs: Julie Münter Lassen presents 'Screenshots as data and documentation', Peter Busch Nicolaisen 'Dialing in with participants', Alexandra Schwinges 'Qualitative reconstruction interviews to study journalistic practice' and Steffen Moestrup 'Ethnographic reporting: immersion as journalistic practice and pedagogy'.

The issue closes with two excellent 'inter-Scandinavian' book reviews of recent media-historical monographs. Rasmus Rønlev reviews Cecilia Aare's 2024 book on Swedish social reportages in a historical perspective, and Henrik G. Bastiansen reviews Lars Kabel's book on Danish journalism history from the 1830's to today.

Thank you to all our contributors, guest editors, reviewers, and readers. A special thanks to Lene Heiselberg, Miriam Kroman Brems and Cecilia Arregui Olivera for their work with the methods briefs, to Aske Kammer for organizing the book review section, to Christina Pontoppidan, Mette Bengtsson and Miriam Kroman Brems for their help  with  our  funding  applications,  to  Karoline  Andrea  Ihlebæk, Maarit  Jaakola,  Ester  Appelgren,  Lene  Heiselberg,  Cecilia  Arregui Olivera, Aske Kammer and Miriam Kroman Brems for assisting with the assessment and selection of the master thesis award recipients, to  the  entire  editorial  group for helping to distribute candy, pens and flyers at our conference booth at NordMedia 2025 in Odense and last but not least to our journal manager Leif Hemming Pedersen for organizing the journal's proofreading, layout and communication activities.

Finally, a big welcome to our new editorial group member Christina Pontoppidan from University of Southern Denmark.

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