(In)visible bonds: Towards a dynamic conceptualisation of emotion in journalist- politician relationships

Melanie Haberl, Dominik Hokamp, Marína Urbániková, Lenka Waschková Císařová, Folker Hanusch, Sophie Lecheler, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

Published online on April 16, 2026

Abstract

Journalism, Ahead of Print.
Journalists and politicians are professionally interdependent and closely entangled. Their interactions form fluid communities with shifting boundaries and implicit rules that are strongly shaped by emotion. Yet, journalism studies have rarely ...