Research

Published Work

Allie Kosterich and Cindy Royal, Institutional Arbitrageurs: The Role of Product Managers as a Locus of Change in Journalism, Media and Communication, November 2023.

Texas Tribune and the Analytics Hub, News Product Alliance Case Study Resource Library, August 2023.

Design Implications for a Burgeoning Digital Product Ecosystem: Roles, Culture and Engagement, Digital Journalism, January 2023.

"Yes, Journalists Should Learn To Code," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2022.

Report: Who Needs to Code? Developing a Coding Practice in a Media Organization, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, December 2022.

Review of Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model, by Cindy Royal, Ph.D., June 2022.

Report: Digital Media Innovation Survey of Graduates 2016-2021, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, May 2022.

Review of Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism, by Cindy Royal, Ph.D., Jan 31, 2022.

"These Products Won't Manage Themselves," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2021.

From Boundary to Bridge and Beyond: The Path to Professionalization of Product Roles in Journalism, with Damon Kiesow, Journalism Studies, September 2021.

The Human Side of (News) Engagement: Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency, with Avery Holton and Valerie Belair-Gagnon. Digital Journalism, published OnlineFirst, July 2021.

Review of Exploring Data Visualisations: An Analytical Framework Based on Dimensional Components of Data Artefacts in Journalism,” MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, Sept. 2021.

Review of Preserving Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, June 2021.

Review of Reengineering Journalism: Product Manager as News Industry Institutional Entrepreneur, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, May 2021.

"J-School Grads Maintain Optimism and Adaptability," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2020.

Report: The State of the News Product Community 2020, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, November 2020.

Product Management in Journalism and Academia," guest editor of invited forum, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, September 2020. OnlineFirst, June 30, 2020.

“Review of Algorithms and Journalism: Exploring (Re)Configurations in Media and Communication,” MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, August 17, 2020.

“Review of Advancing Journalism and Communication Research: New Concepts, Theories and Pathways,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly Special Issue, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, June, 22 2020.

“Lessons from PhDigital Bootcamp: Preparing Future Faculty to Lead Emerging Media Curriculum,” wrote introduction for article series highlighting ways in which PhDigital Bootcamp Fellows applied workshop topics, MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, April 2020.

“Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic: The Pivot to Online,” wrote introduction, an essay and edited collection of essays on the pivot to online teaching during Spring 2020. MILab Journal: Adventures in Media Innovation, June 2020.

"Prepare Media Students for Skills, Not Job Titles," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2019.

Cindy Royal and Sean Smith, "Redefining Doctoral Education: Preparing Future Faculty to Lead Emerging Media Curriculum," Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, December 2019.

"Gender and Technology: Women's Usage, Creation and Perspectives" in Gender and Pop Culture: A Text-Reader, edited by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Volume 2, 2019, Brill||Sense Publishers.

"Teaching Mobile App Development in a Mass Communication Program," Coding Pedagogy Textbook, ed. Jeremy Sarachan, 2019.

"For Journalism Curriculum to Change, Its Faculty Needs Disruption," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2018.

“Product Management for Journalists,” chapter in Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship, REBUS Community, eds. M. Ferrier and L. Mays, 2018

"Your Journalism Curriculum is Obsolete," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2017.

"Why Texas State’s Digital Media Degree is Attracting Female Students," MediaShift, December 2017.

"Your Guide to Social and Digital Certifications: Google, Facebook, HubSpot and More," MediaShift, July 2017.

"Managing Digital Products in a Newsroom Context," ISOJ Journal, Spring 2017.

"Coding the Curriculum", Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations, editor Robyn Goodman. World Journalism Education Congress, 2017.

“Preparing the Digital Educator/Scholar Hybrid,” Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard University, Dec. 2016.

“Developing a New Major in Digital Media Innovation at Texas State,” MediaShift, Dec. 2016.

“How To Teach an Immersive Summer Code Camp,” MediaShift, Sept. 2016, .

“At #SXSW, Texas State Students Tracked Trends in Social Media, VR, Bots and Big Data,” MediaShift, March 2016.

"Developing a Digital Core in Mass Communication Curriculum," co-authored with Jon Zmikly, Feb. 2016.

"Product Management is the New Journalism," Nieman Journalism Lab, December 2015.

"Developing and Assessing Experiential Learning Opportunities," Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, Summer 2015.

Cindy Royal and Dale Blasingame, "Data Journalism: An Explication," ISOJ Journal, Spring 2015.

“What I Learned Meeting Innovators in East Coast Media,” Education Shift, PBS MediaShift, September 17, 2015.

“Innovation at #ISOJ: Mobile, Native Ads, Virtual Reality and Data,” Education Shift, PBS MediaShift, April 22, 2015.

"Why Universities Need to Embrace Coding Across the Curriculum," Education Shift, PBS MediaShift, March 25, 2015.

"Are Journalism Schools Teaching Their Students the Right Skills," Nieman Journalism Lab, April 17, 2014.

"Gender and Technology: Women's Usage, Creation and Perspectives" in Gender and Pop Culture: A Text-Reader, edited by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek and Patricia Leavy, 2014, Sense Publishers.

"From Blogs to Glass: Experiential Learning Through SXSW,", Education Shift, PBS MediaShift, March 27, 2014.

"Interactives of Olympic Proportions: Diffusion of Innovation at The New York Times," ISOJ Journal, Spring 2013.

We Need a Digital First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism,” PBS MediaShift, August 26, 2013.

At the Intersection of Journalism, Data Science and Digital Media: How Can J-Schools Prep Students for the World They’re Headed Into", Nieman Journalism Lab, July 26, 2013.

"Journalism Schools Need to Get Better at Teaching Tech Where the Girls Are,” Nieman Journalism Lab, October 9, 2012.

"The Journalist as Programmer: A Case Study of The New York Times Interactive News Technology Department," ISOJ Journal, Spring 2012.

"Making Media Social: News as User Experience - Revisited," The Future of News, Second Edition edited by Maxwell McCombs, Kelly Kaufhold, Amber Hinsley and Seth Lewis, 2012.

"Storify: Curating Stories with Social Media," JI Educator, May 9, 2012, jieducator.cqpress.com/storify-curating-stories-with-social-media.

"Thinking Critically About New Media," chapter in Teaching with Multimedia: Pedagogy in the Websphere, editor Roxanne O'Connell, 2011.

"Making Media Social: News as User Experience," The Future of News, edited by Maxwell McCombs, 2010.

Gendered Spaces and Digital Discourse: Framing Women's Relationship with the Internet, VDM Publishing, 2009.

Cindy Royal and Deepina Kapila, "What's on Wikipedia, and What's Not? Assessing Completeness of Information," Social Science Computer Review, Spring, 2009.

"Desktop Publishing," Encyclopedia of Journalism, Christopher Sterling, Sage Publications, September 25, 2009.

"Developing an Effective User Experience," Online Journalism Review, October 13, 2009.

"Educating Ourselves, So We Can Teach Our Students," Professor's Corner, Nieman Reports, August 26, 2009.

Four Authors/Five Books: A Reading Assignment for Media Educators and Scholars", AEJMC Hot Topics, August 19, 2009.

"Inspiring Students to Believe...They Can Do Anything," Online Journalism Review, August 18, 2009.

"Making Media Social: News as User Experience", Online Journalism Review, May 13, 2009.

"Introducing Women to the Internet: Digital Discourse in Women’s Media," Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Fall 2008.

"Framing the Internet: A Comparison of Gendered Spaces," Social Science Computer Review, Summer, 2008.

James Tankard & Cindy Royal, "What's on the Web and What's Not," Social Science Computer Review, Fall 2005.

"Tech-savvy women seek support in classroom and newsroom," Online Journalism Review, April 14, 2005.

"Teaching Web Design in Journalism and Mass Communications Programs: Integration, Judgment, and Perspective," Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Winter 2005.

"A Meta-analysis of Journal Articles Intersecting Internet and Gender," Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2005.

James Tankard & Cindy Royal, "Finding Out What's On the World Wide Web," Communication Impact: Designing Research that Matters, Susanna Hornig Priest, Ph.D., Editor, 2005.

"Framing the Internet in Gendered Spaces: An Analysis of iVillage and AskMen.com," Media Report to Women, Fall 2004.

Cindy Royal & James Tankard, "Literary Journalism on the World Wide Web: The Case of Blackhawk Down" Newspaper Research Journal, Memphis, TN, Fall 2004.

"Framing the Internet," in Communication in the Millennium: A Dialogue Between Turkish and American Scholars, Anadolu University, Turkey, 2003.

Review of Excellence in Online Journalism: Exploring Current Practices in an Evolving Environment, in Journalism, 2013.

Review of Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, in Global Media Journal, Summer 2008.

Review of Convergence Culture and Information Please, in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Spring 2008.

Review of Writing for Multimedia and the Web: A practical guide to content development for interactive media, in Journalism Studies, August 2007.

Review of Computer-Mediated Communication: Social Interaction on the Internet and Human Communication on the Internet, in Journalism Studies, August 2006, forthcoming.

Review of Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, in Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines, Issue 1, Spring 2003.

Doctoral Dissertation

"Gendered Spaces and Digital Discourse: Framing Women's Relationship with the Internet," a framing and discursive analysis of the ways that gendered Web sites construct women's relationship with Internet technology, March 2005.

Papers Presented

"Redefining Doctoral Education: Preparing Future Faculty To Lead Emerging Media Curriculum," World Journalism Education Council, Paris, France, July 2019.

"Managing Digital Products in a Newsroom Context," International Symposium in Online Journalism, Austin, TX, April 2017.

"Data Journalism: An Explication," International Symposium in Online Journalism, Austin, TX, April 2015.

"Creating Collegiate Media Opportunities in the Classroom Using Social Media: A Case Study of Experiential Learning," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Chicago, August 2012.

"The Journalist as Programmer: A Case Study of the New York Times Interactive News Technology Department," International Symposium in Online Journalism, April 2010.

"User-Generated Content: How Social Networking Translates to Social Capital," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Chicago, August 2008.

"What Do People Do Online? Implications For the Future of Media," International Symposium in Online Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin, March 2008.

Cindy Royal & Deepina Kapila, "Wikipedia: Completeness of Information on the Online Collaborative Encyclopedia," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Washington, DC, August 2007.

Cindy Royal & Deepina Kapila, "What's on Wikipedia and What's Not," International Symposium in Online Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin, March 2007.

"Introducing Women to the Internet: Digital Discourse in Women’s Media" - presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, San Francisco, August 2006.

"Visualizing Technology: Images in Google and Yahoo News Aggregators" - presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 8, 2006.

"Framing the Internet in Gendered Spaces: An Analysis of iVillage and AskMen.com" - presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Toronto, August 2004.

"A Meta-analysis of Social Science Scholarship on Internet and Gender" - review of social science journal articles intersecting Internet and Gender - presented at the International Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2004.

"What's on the Web, and What's Not" - with Dr. James Tankard - an analysis of gaps in content represented on the Web - paper presented at the International Communications Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 24, 2003.

"Representations of Race and Sexuality on Feminist Web Sites" - paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 26, 2003.

"Comparison of Computerized and Traditional Content Analysis Techniques: A Case Study of the Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Primary" - paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, August 2003 .

"Framing the Internet: Before and After the Tech Bust" - a look at how newspapers framed discussions of Internet technology before and since March 2000 - paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, August 2003 .

"Narrative Structure in Sex and the City" - an analysis of narrative structure in the popular HBO series: voice-over, central theme/multiple meanings, and relationship to technology - paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, August 2003. Winner of Second Place Student Paper.

"Teaching Web Design in Journalism and Mass Communications Programs: Integration, Judgment, and Perspective" - a case study of a Web Design course that converges skills and theory; accompanying video, to be presented at the Expanding Convergence: Media Use in a Changing Information Environment Conference, Columbia, SC, Nov. 6-8, 2003; accompanying Web site at www.cindyroyal.com/teaching highlighting student projects.

"The Convergence of Literary Journalism and the World Wide Web: The Case of Blackhawk Down" - co-written with Dr. James Tankard, presented at the Dynamics of Convergent Media Conference, Columbia, SC, Nov. 14-16, 2002.

"Mind the Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Motivation to Contribute Online Content" - paper presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Miami, FL, August 2002.