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Dawn Wheatley

Dawn Wheatley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications focusing on journalism, political communication, and social media. She received her PhD in 2018 for her research into online news production and coverage of the Irish healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on sources and voices, and how newsroom practices are established and reproduced. Dawn worked as a production journalist for the Irish Daily Mail and the Irish Times before turning to research and teaching in DCU. Her research has been published in New Media & Society, Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Information, Communication & Society, and on RTÉ's Brainstorm, and she teaches both practical and theoretical subjects to journalism students in the School. Her current research projects include work on mobile news dissemination, filtering and blocking on social media, and source use in contemporary news reporting. She is also involved in various international projects, working on the Irish contribution to the Worlds of Journalism study which surveys journalists, and co-ordinating the Irish data for the Global Media Monitoring Project which analyses the role of women in the news.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2024	Dawn Wheatley; Karen Ross; Cynthia Carter; Karen Boyle (2024) 'Gender in/and the news in the UK and Republic of Ireland: Slow but (un)steady progress?'. JOURNALISM: THEORY, PRACTICE & CRITICISM, . https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241276836
	2022	Eirik Vatnøy; Dawn Wheatley (2022) 'Mediated recognition in campaigns for justice: The case of the Magdalene laundry survivors'. COMMUNICATIONS-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 47 (4):532-552. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2022-0039
	2022	Wheatley, D. (2022) 'Irish audiences and news information from official sources during Covid-19'. Administration, 70 . [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Robbins, D.; Wheatley, D. (2021) 'Complexity, Objectivity, and Shifting Roles: Environmental Correspondents March to a Changing Beat'. JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 15 . [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Wheatley, D; Ferrer-Conill, R (2021) 'The Temporal Nature of Mobile Push Notification Alerts: A Study of European News Outlets’ Dissemination Patterns'. DIGITAL JOURNALISM, 9 (6):694-714. [DOI]
	2022	Wheatley, D.; Vatnoey, E. (2022) 'Understanding attitudes towards social media segregation: spatial metaphors in the discussion of Twitter blocklists'. Information Communication and Society, 25 . [Link] [DOI]
	2020	Dawn Wheatley (2020) 'Victims and voices: Journalistic sourcing and the use of private citizens in online healthcare-system news'. Journalism Studies, 21 (8):1017-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1727355
	2020	Dawn Wheatley & Eirik Vatnoey (2020) '‘It’s Twitter, a bear pit, not a debating society’: A qualitative analysis of contrasting attitudes towards social media blocklists'. New Media and Society, 22 (1):5-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819858278
	2020	Wheatley, D. (2020) 'A Typology of News Sourcing: Routine and Non-Routine Channels of Production'. JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 14 . [Link] [DOI]
	2017	Wheatley, D.; O’Sullivan, J. (2017) 'Pressure to Publish or Saving for Print?: A temporal comparison of source material on three newspaper websites'. DIGITAL JOURNALISM, 5 . [Link] [DOI]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2021	Dawn Wheatley (2021) 'Tracing Back Beyond the Text: Using Regressive Content Analysis to Study Journalistic Practices' 3 (1) :40-55.

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2024	Colleen Murrell; Claire English; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2024) Digital News Report Ireland 2024. Coimisiún na Meán, .
	2023	Dawn Wheatley (2023) Social media and online hostility: Experiences of women in Irish journalism. .
	2023	Kevin Rafter & Dawn Wheatley (2023) Irish journalists at work: values, roles & influences. . [Link]
	2023	Dawn Wheatley; Leysi Rubio Arevich (2023) Attitudes towards news media in Ireland: Perspectives from Nigerian and Polish migrants. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
	2023	Colleen Murrell; Kirsty Park; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2023) Digital News Report Ireland 2023. Coimisiún na Meán, .
	2022	Colleen Murrell; Kirsty Park; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2022) Digital News Report (Ireland) 2022. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
	2022	Dawn Wheatley (2022) Gender & Diversity in Ireland 2016-2021 & Internationally 2021. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
	2021	Colleen Murrell; Kirsty Park; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2021) Digital News Report (Ireland) 2021. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2023	Dawn Wheatley; Kevin Rafter (2023) 'The Media & Politics [Forthcoming]' In: Politics in the Republic of Ireland (Seventh edition). London : Routledge.
	2023	Dawn Wheatley (2023) 'Mobile News [Forthcoming]' In: The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2nd Ed). London : Routledge.
	2021	Dawn Wheatley (2021) 'Solid swansong from caretaker government' In: Political Communication and COVID-19: Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis. Oxon : Routledge.
	2020	Eirik Vatnøy & Dawn Wheatley (2020) 'Eksplorerende retorisk analyse av sosiale medier” (Exploratory rhetorical analysis of social media)' In: Retorikkens metoder (The methods of rhetoric). Denmark : Samfundslitteratur.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2024	Dawn Wheatley (2024) ECREA Wheatley, D. (2024) Pre-empting normative failure? Journalism students Ljubljana, Slovenia, .
	2024	Eirik Vatnoey; Dawn Wheatley (2024) ECREA 50 years of Magdalene laundry survivors in Irish news: Voice, recognition and a transformed status Ljubljana, Slovenia, .
	2023	(2023) 9th International Conference on the Safety of Journalists Journalists’ use of filtering practices to manage negative interactions online: ‘I try not to block people, but...’ Oslo, Norway, .
	2024	Roderick Flynn; Dawn Wheatley (2024) RIPE: Public Service Media for Innovation and Sustainability Squaring the circle: Using public funds to support commercial provision of public service media content Lisbon, Portugal, .
	2022	Dawn Wheatley (2022) ECREA Conference 2022 Shrinking social spaces? How journalists use filtering practices to manage online negativity Aarhus, Denmark, .
	2022	Dawn Wheatley (2022) 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS Journalism students' safety concerns in digital spaces: ‘There are lots of aspects of social media that scare me a lot’ OsloMet, Oslo, Norway, .
	2022	Dawn Wheatley (2022) Inaugural Climate and Society Conference. Climate Action: Ireland’s Role in a Changing World Environment correspondents: complexity, objectivity & shifting roles Dublin, Ireland, .
	2021	Dawn Wheatley, Raul Ferrer-Conill (2021) 8th European Communication Conference What gets pushed? A comparative study of European mobile news notification content Braga [virtual], .
	2021	Dawn Wheatley, Eirik Vatnoey (2021) 8th European Communication Conference Mediated recognition and a campaign for justice: Ireland’s Magdalene laundry survivors Braga [virtual], .
	2019	Dawn Wheatley & Raul Ferrer-Conill (2019) Future of Journalism Disrupting or integrating news consumption? The temporal nature of mobile push notification alerts among European news outlets Cardiff, Wales, .
	2019	Dawn Wheatley & Eirik Vatnoey (2019) European Political Science Association annual conference Constructing a rhetorical framework for analysing Twitter users' attitudes towards social media blocklists Belfast, Northern Ireland, .
	2019	Dawn Wheatley & Raul Ferrer-Conill (2019) International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference Pushing agendas? A comparative study of European push notification mobile news Washington DC, .
	2019	Dawn Wheatley & Eirik Vatnoey (2019) International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference ‘It’s Twitter, a bear pit, not a debating society’: A rhetorical analysis of contrasting attitudes towards social media blocklists Washington DC, .
	2019	Dawn Wheatley & Raul Ferrer-Conill (2019) ECREA Journalism Studies Division Pushing agendas? A comparative study of European push notification mobile news Vienna, Austria, .
	2018	Dawn Wheatley (2018) ECREA 2018 Finding a voice? Linking journalistic practices, source selection and published news content Lugano, Switzerland, .
	2018	Dawn Wheatley (2018) International Communication Association Four stages of the story: Structures, practices, and the quadripartite nature of news production Prague, Czech Republic, .
	2018	Dawn Wheatley (2018) Voice and voices: Exploring tensions between plurivocity and univocity A single voice for members? Health workers, journalists and trade unions as a news source Prague, Czech Republic, .
	2017	Dawn Wheatley (2017) Ordinary Citizens in the Media - ICA preconference Inclusion and exclusion: How ordinary citizens fit into the journalistic sourcing process San Diego, USA, .
	2017	Dawn Wheatley (2017) ECREA Journalism Studies division Channels of News Production in the 21st century Odense, Denmark, .
	2016	Dawn Wheatley (2016) IAMCR Annual Conference Pressure to publish: the perceived structures of online news production Leicester, United Kingdom, .
	2016	Dawn Wheatley (2016) Power and Communication Power, politics and press releases: journalism practice and trade union agendas Uppsala, Sweden, .
	2015	Dawn Wheatley (2015) Global Journalism Symposium A matter of time? Newspaper brands, online content and saving stories for print Kristiansand, Norway, .

Thesis

	Year	Publication
	2018	Dawn Wheatley (2018) Sourcing the Story: Journalistic practices and online news coverage of Irish healthcare policy. THES [Link]

Research Projects

	Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date
	Beyond words: Female journalists, public interactions and online hostility	DCU PI		01/11/2021	31/07/2022
	Media representations, framing and the shifting social construction of illicit drugs in Ireland 1964-2020 - ISABEL AUST	DCU PI		01/10/2020	30/09/2023

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Aust ,Isabel	PhD	Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Reporting: Principles and Practice	CM116
2022	Advanced Reporting	CM283
2022	Networked News	CM504
2022	Entrepreneurial Journalism	CM3860
2022	Networked News	CM295