Publications

 

Journal articles

  • Leonhardt, B., & Uth, B. (2026). From neutrality to engagement: Young audiences’ evaluations of interventionist journalism across media platforms. Journalism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849261453112
  • Eichler, H., Uth, B., Ötting, H., & Kokoschka, V. (2026). Debate spaces for everyone? How public service media aim to reshape audience engagement and interactions. Digital Journalism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2636906
  • Weiß, A.-N., Lünenborg, M., Bayramoğlu, Y., & Uth, B. (2025). Diversität, Intersektionalität und Geschlecht im Journalismus – zur Einführung in das Themenheft. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K), 73(3), 299-314. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2025-3-299

  • Wehden, L. O., Uth, B., von den Driesch, L., Engelke, K. M., & Springer, N. (2025). Transitioning to Transparency: Footnote Journalism as a Novel Journalistic Practice. Journalism Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2464927

  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2025). The journalism-audience relationship in digital media environments:  A theoretical literature review. Journalism, 26(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231221611
  • Uth, B. (2024). Chancen und Herausforderungen der redaktionellen Umsetzung von Audience Engagement – eine Fallstudie am Beispiel des Projektes #unserWasser. Publizistik, 69(1), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-00830-1
  • Uth, B. (2024). The quality oriented, the audience engagers, the transparent: Types of editorial trust-building in German news outlets. Journalism, 25(2), 391-408. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221141522
  • Kosyk, A., Kirsten, A., Scheu, A., & Uth, B. (2023).  COVID-19 sceptics’ attitudes and expectations toward the media: Understanding the role of moral judgements on trust and distrust in journalistic communication on COVID-19. Studies in Media and Communication (SCM), 2(2-3), 155-182. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2023-2-3-155 
  • Schützender, J., Engelke, K.M., Uth, B., Graßl, M., Klingenhardt, K., Meier, K., Badura, L., & Blöbaum, B.(2021). Transferprozesse in der Journalismusforschung: Debattenbeitrag zu Chancen und Herausforderungen im inter- und transdisziplinären Kontext der Journalismusforschung. M&K (Medien & Kommunikation), 70(1-2), 118-139. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2022-1-2-118
  • Uth, B. & Meier, Klaus (2018). Wie Redaktionen bessere Diskussionen fördern können. Einflussfaktoren auf die Qualität von Nutzerkommentaren. Communicatio Socialis, 3(51), S. 331-345. https://doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2018-3-331

 

Monographs

  • Uth, B. (2021). Hochwertig, Transparent, Publikumsnah. Eine qualitative Analyse redaktioneller Strategien der Vertrauensbildung im Journalismus. Nomos.

 

Articles in edited volumes

  • Stehle, H., Lührmann, J., & Uth, B. (2025). Striving for Legitimacy: Strategic Energy Project Communication and Its Characteristics. In F. Weder (Eds.), Strategic Sustainability Communication. Principles, Perspectives, and Potential (pp. 95-108). Springer.
  • Uth, B. (2025). Audience Engagement als Mittel der Vertrauensbildung im Medienbereich. In V. Schwenker & P. Sandermann (Eds.) TRUST ISSUES!? Vertrauen und gesellschaftliche Zukunft (pp. 197-211). transcript. 
  • Uth, B. (2025). Local news. In A. Nai, M. Grömping & D. Wirz (Eds.), Encyclopedia of political communication (pp. 390-393). Edgar Elgar Publishing.  
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2024). Die Journalismus-Publikum-Beziehung als Herausforderung für den politischen Journalismus. Eine Literaturanalyse zu Verständnis und Modellierungen. In C. Nuernbergk, J. Haßler, J. Schützeneder & N. F. Schumacher (Eds.), Politischer Journalismus: Konstellationen – Muster – Dynamiken (pp. 147-162). Nomos. doi.org/10.5771/9783748939702-147
  • Stehle, H., Uth, B., & Detel, H. (2022). Erwartungen in der Journalismus-Publikum-Beziehung in digitalen Kontexten – Determinanten der Accountability von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien. In Österreichischer Rundfunk/Generaldirektion Public Value (Ed.), Public Value Studie. Öffentlich-rechtliche Qualität im Diskurs (pp. 197-220). Österreichischer Rundfunk.
  • Uth, B., Badura, L., & Blöbaum, B. (2021). Perceptions of trustworthiness and risk: How transparency can influence trust in journalism. In B. Blöbaum (Ed.), Trust and Communication. Findings and Implications of Trust Research (pp. 61-81). Springer International Publishing.
  • Uth, B., Blöbaum, B., Badura, L., & Engelke, K. M. (2020). Institutionalisierte Interdisziplinarität: Chancen für die Neujustierung der Journalismusforschung in einer digitalisierten Welt. In J. Schützeneder, K. Meier & N. Springer (Eds.) Neujustierung der Journalistik/Journalismusforschung in der digitalen Gesellschaft. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung der DGPUK 2019, Eichstätt (pp. 129-139). https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.70829
  • Badura, L., Uth, B., & Engelke, K. M. (2020). Individual- statt Pauschallösungen: Transparenzstrategien im Nachrichten-Journalismus und ihr Zusammenhang mit Rezipierendenvertrauen. In T. Köhler (Ed.), Fake-News, Framing, Fact-Checking: Nachrichten im digitalen Zeitalter (pp. 425-446). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450253-023

 

Edited Volumes/Special Issues

  • Lünenborg, M., Weiß, A.-N., Bayramoğlu, Y., & Uth, B. (2025). Themenheft Diversität, Intersektionalität und Geschlecht im Journalismus. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K), 73(3). https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2025-3-297 


Book reviews

  • Uth, B. (2024). Riedl, Andreas: Nachrichtenqualität als journalistischer Prozess. Demokratietheoretisch fundierte Performanz zwischen Wollen, Sollen und Können. Herbert von Halem Verlag. 460 Seiten. Communicatio Socialis, 57(4), 590-592. doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2024-4-590
  • Uth, B. (2023). Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein, Matthias Karmasin (Eds.): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. Communicatio Socialis, 56(2), 274-276.
  • Uth, B. (2022). 1. Obermaier, Magdalena: Vertrauen in journalistische Medien aus Sicht der Rezipienten. Zum Einfluss von soziopolitischen und performanzbezogenen Erklärgrößen. 2. Steindl, Nina: Geleitet von Vertrauen? Determinanten und Konsequenzen des Vertrauens von JournalistInnen in Deutschland. Publizistik, 67, 381–384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-022-00725-z

Presentations

  • Boukes, M., Qin, A., Blanco-Herrero, D., Guo, W., Liu, Y., Stromback, S., Park, S., Uth, B., Theorin, N., Møller, L.A., Nah, S., Boomgarden, H., Azmat Rasul, A., Richard Fletcher, R., Tandoc, E., Javier Amores, J., Lee, T.-T., Boursier, A., Mogos, A., Slavtcheva-Petkova, V., Terry Flew, T., Boda, Z., Wang, H., Kalogeropoulos, A., Vreese, C. de, Chagas, V., Splendore, S., Depauw, C., Aharoni, T., Sbaraini Fontes, G., Elif Kilik, E., Yamamoto, M., Lee, J. Y., Farooq, A., Contreras-Yap, S., Paladhi, A., Amakoh, K., Stepnik, A., Tang, W., Balazs Bodo, B., Jung, J.-Y., Arcila Calderón, C., Gkaragkanis, T., Oller Alonso, M., Novais, R., Frías-Vázquez, M., Nur, I., Lee, F. L. F., De Swert, K., & Chuma, W. (2026, June 4-8). Distinguishing news media trust, skepticism, and cynicism through elaboration: Toward a global typology of distrustors, mistrustors, automatic trustors, and engaged trustors [Paper presentation]. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Springer, N., Wehden, L.-O., Uth, B., von den Driesch, L., & Engelke, K. (2026, June 4-8). Can a Push for Transparency Really Solve Journalism’s Biggest Problems? An Experimental Reality Check on Source Transparency [Paper presentation]. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Leonhardt, B., & Uth, B. (2026, June 4-8). From Neutrality to Engagement: Young Audiences’ Evaluations of Interventionist Journalism Across Media Platforms [Paper presentation]. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Leonhardt, B., Uth, B., & Hanusch, F. (2026, June 4-8). Mapping Journalistic Interventionism: Towards a multi-dimensional understanding [Paper presentation]. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Uth, B., & Leonhardt, B. (2026, June 4-8). Extended Abstract: Exploring Audience Conceptions of Trust in Journalism: A Q Methodology Study [Paper presentation]. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Uth, B. (2026, June 4-8). Mapping the Landscape of Audience Engagement: Definitions, Dimensions, Goals, and Challenges. [Paper presentation]. 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Prinzing, M., Voigt, C., Stehr, P., Schulze, A., Geppert, J., Uth, B. (2026, March 18-20). Wissenstransfer als Demokratieförderung – Einführung und Formatwerkstatt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Wertekonflikten [Paper presentation]. Annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Dortmund, Germany.
  • Eichler, H., Uth, B., Ötting, H., & Kokoschka, V. (2025, October 23-24). Von Plattformabhängigkeit zu Public Value: Der Public Spaces Incubator als Modell für öffentlich-rechtliche digitale Diskursräume [Paper presentation]. Workshop des Netzwerks Medienstrukturen 2025, Mainz, Germany. 
  • Stehle, H., Lührmann, J., & Uth, B. (2025, October 22-24). Stakeholder-Erwartungen an strategische Energiekommunikation – eine Q-Sort-Erhebung [Paper presentation]. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe PR und Organisationskommunikation, Greifswald, Germany. 
  • Eichler, H., Uth, B., Ötting, H., & Kokoschka, V. (2025, October 9-10). Creating new spaces for the public: User perspectives on the Public Spaces Incubator [Paper presentation]. CAIS International Conference 2025, Bochum, Germany. 
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., & Lührmann, J. (2025, September 24-27). Legitimation Strategies in Strategic Communication for Renewable Energy Projects: Findings of a Content Analysis [Paper presentation]. 26th Annual EUPRERA Congress, Lund, Sweden. 
  • Stehle, H., Kannengießer, S., Lührmann, J., Uth, B., & Görland, S. (2025, June 12-16). Communicating the Energy Transition in Germany-Enablers and Barriers at Local and National Level [Paper presentation]. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO, USA.
  • Uth, B., Ötting, H., Eichler, H., & Kokoschka, V. (2025, June 12-16). Debate spaces audiences actually want? A case study of the public spaces incubator [Paper presentation]. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO, USA.
  • Wehden, L.-O., Uth, B., von den Driesch, L., & Springer, N. (2025, June 12-16). Exploring new means of source transparency: Footnote journalism's effects on credibility and news engagement [Paper presentation]. 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO, USA.
  • Kannengießer, S., Stehle, H., Uth, B., Hausmann, H., & Lührmann, J. (2025, March 19–21). Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Akteur*innen der Energiewende [Conference presentation]. Annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Berlin, Germany.
  • Eichler, H., Uth, B., Ötting, H., & Kokoschka, V. (2025, February 19-21). Öffentlich-rechtliche Medien als Gestalter konstruktiver Debattenräume: Das Beispiel Public Spaces Incubator [Paper presentation]. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikations- und Medienethik und des Netzwerk Medienethik, Tutzing, Germany.
  • Uth, B., Lührmann, J., & Stehle, H. (2024, September 24-27). How organizations responsible for green energy projects employ strategic communication to legitimize such projects? A quantitative content analysis [Paper presentation]. 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Detel, H., Podschuweit, N., & Klawitter, I. (2024, September 24-27). Expectations of reciprocal interaction: A Q-sort study with journalists and audience members [Paper presentation]. 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Wehden, Lars-Ole, Uth, B., Engelke, Kathrine M., von den Driesch, L., & Springer, N. (2024, September 24-27). Transitioning to transparency: Footnote journalism as a novel journalistic practice [Paper presentation]. 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Podschuweit, N., & Detel, H. (2024, June 20-24). What does the audience expect when interacting with journalists? A Q-sort study [Paper presentation]. 74th Annual ICA Conference “Communication and Global Human Rights”, Gold Coast, Australia.
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2024, June 20-24). Journalists’ expectations of journalist-audience interaction and relationship: A Q-sort study. 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.
  • Uth, B. (2023, May 25-29). The many notions of audience engagement. A scoping review [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2023, May 25-29). The journalism-audience relationship in digital media environments: A Theoretical Literature Review [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Detel, H., Uth, B., Podschuweit, N., & Stehle, H. (2023, May 25-29). The impact of mutual interaction expectations on journalist-audience relations in digital media contexts: An exploratory study [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Podschuweit, N., Stehle, H., Büttner, Jonas, Uth, B., & Detel, H. (2023, May 25-29). Mutual interaction expectations and consequences of expectancy violations in the journalism-audience relationship: A systematic literature review [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
  • Podschuweit, N., Stehle, H., Büttner, Jonas, Uth, B., & Detel, H. (2023, May 18-20). Konsequenzen enttäuschter Erwartungen in Journalismus-Publikums-Interaktionen: Eine Literaturanalyse [Paper presentation]. Annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Bremen, Germany.
  • Kosyk, A., Kirsten, A., Scheu, A., & Uth, B. (2022, October 19-22). COVID-19 sceptics’ attitudes and expectations toward the media: Understanding the role of moral judgements on trust and distrust in scientific journalistic communication [Paper presentation]. 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Uth, B. (2022, October 19-22). Trust crisis or strong bond? How German journalists perceive the trust relationship to their audience and how they define trustworthy journalism [Paper presentation]. 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Detel, H., Uth, B., Stehle, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2022, September 28-30). Austausch (un)erwünscht? Eine qualitative Befragung von Journalist*innen und Publikumsmitgliedern zu den Erwartungen an die wechselseitige Interaktion in digitalen Medienumgebungen [Paper presentation]. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik, dem Arbeitskreis Politik und Kommunikation (DVPW) und der Fachgruppe Politische Kommunikation (SGKM)., Trier, Germany.
  • Uth, B., Stehle, H., Detel, H., Wilhelm, C., & Podschuweit, N. (2022, September 28-30). Die Journalismus-Publikums-Beziehung als Herausforderung für politischen Journalismus. Eine Literaturanalyse zu Verständnis und Modellierungen [Paper presentation]. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik, dem Arbeitskreis Politik und Kommunikation (DVPW) und der Fachgruppe Politische Kommunikation (SGKM), Trier, Germany.
  • Uth, B. (2022, May 26-30). High quality, close to the audience and transparent: How German news outlets try to build trust in their work [Paper presentation].  72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.
  • Uth, B., & Blöbaum, B. (2022, May 26-30). Media friends vs. media skeptics: How personality and media performance influence trust in the media [Paper presentation].  72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.
  • Kosyk, Anastasiya, Kirsten, Anna, Uth, B., & Scheu, Andreas (2022, May 25). COVID-19 skeptics’ attitudes and expectations toward mediated science communication [Video Paper presentation]. The Science of Science Communication: Mapping the Field. Preconference to the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.
  • Uth, B., Badura, L., & Blöbaum, B. (2021, September 6-9). High quality, high transparency, high trust? A representative survey on perceptions underlying media trust [Virtual Paper presentation]. 8th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Virtual Conference.
  • Engelke, K. M., Uth, B., Badura, L., & Blöbaum, B. (2020, September 23-25). Theorie-Praxis-Kooperationen: Debattenbeitrag zu Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Journalismusforschung [Virtual Paper presentation]. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, Virtual Conference.
  • Uth, B., Badura, L., & Blöbaum, B. (2020, May 21-26). Perceptions of trustworthiness and risk: How transparency can influence trust in journalism [Video Paper presentation]. 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Virtual Conference.
  • Uth, B., Badura, L., Blöbaum, Blöbaum, & Engelke, K. M. (2019, September 18-20). Institutionalisierte Interdisziplinarität: Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Neujustierung der Journalismusforschung [Paper presentation]. Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, Eichstätt, Germany.
  • Uth, B., & Blöbaum, B. (2019, May 24-28). Inaccurate and Biased? A Representative Study of how Germans Perceive and Trust their Media [Paper presentation]. 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, DC, United States.
  • Uth, B. (2019, May 23). Building trust in journalism – how newsrooms attempt to preserve and increase trust in a digital age [Paper presentation]. 2019 ICA Journalism Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, Washington, DC, United States.
  • Uth, B. (2019, May 9-11). Digitale Demokratie? Deliberation in Nutzerkommentaren [Paper presentation]. Annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Münster.
  • Badura, L., & Uth, B. (2019, May 9). Zur Relationalität von Vertrauen und Risiko. Modellierung eines Prozesses für die Journalismusforschung [Paper presentation]. Preconference to the Annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Münster.
  • Uth, B. (2019, February 14-15). An integrative model of trust in journalism. ECREA Journalism Studies Conference. [Paper presentation]. Conference of the ECREA Journalism Studies Section, Vienna, Austria.
  • Uth, B. (2019, January 11-15). Hate Speech and Incivility in German User Comments. [Paper presentation]. 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Uth, B. (2018, June 22). (Un)zivilisiert? Nutzerkommentare im Online-Journalismus [Paper presentation]. Forum Lokaljournalismus der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Nuernberg, Germany.