[IAMCR Pre-conference] Emotions and Journalism in Today’s Dynamic Communication Landscape

This pre-conference, organized in conjunction with the forthcoming Handbook of Journalism and Emotions (IAMCR/Wiley), seeks to address the growing global interest among media professionals and scholars in the relationship between journalism and emotion. Both the handbook and the event highlight a rapidly expanding body of research spanning disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and cultural contexts, emphasizing the central role emotions play in journalistic practice and audience engagement. Once considered incompatible with objectivity and impartiality (Orgeret, 2020), emotions are now recognized as fundamental to perception, understanding, and communication, shaping both news production and reception. This "emotional turn" in journalism studies (Wahl-Jorgensen, 2020) underscores their inevitable and constructive influence.