TikTok Journalism

This book offers a pioneering contribution to the scholarly exploration of journalism on TikTok, a social media platform that has become increasingly central to the contemporary media landscape. As media platformization advances, news outlets and journalists have entered a space defined by algorithmic recommendation and virality, adapting to its logic, affordances, formats, trends, and audiences. This volume features 31 chapters structured into five sections: Understanding and researching TikTok journalism; News media outlets; Journalists; Audience and public sphere; and Information disorders and fact-checking. Bringing together contributions from 58 scholars across 15 countries, the book provides a critical and timely overview of the ongoing transformations of TikTok journalism.

This book is the first in our field to capture TikTok's profound influence on journalism worldwide. With a globally diverse ensemble of authors and case studies, TikTok Journalism sets the agenda for understanding how news is being reshaped by short video, algorithmic culture, and platform logics -and why that matters for the future of media and public life.

Seth C. Lewis - Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon

TikTok Journalism is a timely and comprehensive volume that examines how journalism is evolving on a hugely popular short-form video platform. By bringing together diverse perspectives and contexts, the book offers a space for a much-needed reflection on what journalism is, what it should be, and what it could become.

Edson C. Tandoc Jr. - Nanyang Technological University Singapore