Prof. Motti Neiger

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Journalism Studies & Political Communication

Prof. Motti Neiger is a leading scholar in Journalism Studies and Political Communication, with particular expertise in media memory, conflict coverage, and the evolving norms of journalistic practice. His research explores how journalism structures collective experiences of time—past, present, and future—and how media serves as both a platform and a participant in shaping public memory, especially in contexts of national trauma and conflict. He has published extensively on media representations of war, nationalism, and criticism in Israeli society, and is widely recognized for his work on journalistic ethics, professional identity, and the personalization of journalism in the digital age. Prof. Neiger’s scholarship has appeared in top-tier journals including Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Journalism, and Media, Culture & Society. Beyond academia, he plays an active role in public service, including curriculum development for media education in Israel and contributions to national ethics committees. His interdisciplinary work bridges cultural theory, communication studies, and critical media analysis, offering timely insights into the challenges facing journalism in an era of political polarization and technological transformation.

 

 

Publications related to Journalism Studies & Political Communication

 

Books

Neiger, M., Blondheim, M., & Liebes, T. (Eds.) (2008). Telling Media Stories – Reflections on Media Discourse. Jerusalem: Magnes & Smart Institute, Hebrew University. [in HEB] (380 pp.).

 

Articles

  1. Kedem, A., & Neiger, M. (2024). Journalists’ Ideological Branding: Bridging Professional and Personal Branding on Twitter. Journalism Practice, doi: 10.1080/17512786.2024.2313141 [Link – Full publication]
  2. Kedem, A., & Neiger, M. (2025, forthcoming). Journalists' Personalization: How Self-promoting, branding, and ideological positioning redefine journalistic practices, products, and institution. Communication & Society. 38 (2).
  3. Neiger, M.  & Rimer-Tsory K. (2013). The War that wasn't on the News: "In-group nationalism" and "out-group nationalism" in newspaper supplements. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 14: 721-736. [Link - Full publication]
  4. Neiger, M & Rimmer-Tsory, K (2011). Nationalism and war representations in Israel's newspaper during the Second Lebanon War on 2006. Israel Studies in Language and Society. 3(2): 86-113 [in HEB]. [Link – Full publication] 
  5. Neiger, M., Zandberg, E., & Meyers, O. (2010).  Communicating critique: Towards a conceptualization of journalistic criticism. Communication, Culture and Critique, 3(3): 377-395. [Link - Full publication]
  6. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K.  & Neiger, M. (2015). Print is Future, Online is Past: Cross-Media Analysis of Temporal Orientations in the News. Communication Research, 42(8): 1047-1067. [Link - Full publication]
  7. Neiger, M. PI & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. PI (2016). Understanding Journalism through a Nuanced Deconstruction of Temporal Layers in News Narratives. Journal of Communication, 66(1): 139-160. [Link - Full publication]
  8. Neiger, M.  (2017). Media Role in Shaping Shared Futures. Israel Studies in Language and Society. 9(2): 142-163. [in HEB] [Link - Full publication]
  9. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. PI, & Neiger, M. PI (2018). Temporal affordances in the news. Journalism, 19(1), 37-55.[Link - Full publication]
  10. Neiger, M. PI and Zandberg, E. PI (2004). Days of awe: The praxis of news coverage of violent conflict. Communications – The European Journal of Communication, 29, 429-446.  [Link - Full publication]
  11. Zandberg, E. PI and Neiger, M. PI (2005). Between the nation and the profession: Journalists as members of contradicting communities. Media, Culture & Society, 27(1), 131-141.  [Link - Full publication]
  12. Neiger, M. (2007). Media oracles: The political import and cultural significance of news referring to the future. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 8(3): 326-338.[Link - Full publication]
  13. Neiger, M. (2007). News speculating the future. In D. Caspi (Ed.). Media and Politics in Israel (pp. 75-90). Jerusalem: Van-Leer Institute. [in HEB, extended version of an article published in Journalism]. [Link – Full publiction]
  14. Neiger, M. (2008). How to Read Texts in the Media – A critical model for interpretation of texts. In M. Neiger, Blondheim M. & Liebes, T (Eds.). Telling Media Stories – Reflections on Media Discourse (pp. 41-60). Jerusalem: Magnes & Smart Institute, Hebrew University. [In HEB]  [Link - Full paper]
  15. Neiger, M., (2022). Israel's Media Landscape: Democratic Practice, Constrained Environment. In P.R. Kumaraswamy (Ed.), Palgrave International Handbook on Israel. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link - Full publication]
  16. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. & Neiger, M. (2019). “The Past, Present, and Future of Journalism and Memory” in Wahl-Jorgensen, K. & T. Hanitzsch (eds.)  The Handbook of Journalism Studies (pp. 420-434). London: Routledge.  [Link - Full publication]

 

Entries in Academic Encyclopedias

  1. Neiger M. (2022). "Time in Journalism". In. G.A. Borchard (Ed). Encyclopedia of Journalism (pp. 1640-1642). Thousand Oaks: Sage. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544391199.n409  [Link - Full publication]

 

Refereed Monographs and Research Report    

  1. Neiger M., Zandberg, E., &  Abu-Raya, I. (2001).  Israeli Media or Jewish Media? – The Role of Israeli Media in Covering the Clashes between Israeli-Arab citizens and the police on October 2000. Jerusalem: Keshev – Center for the Democracy. (40 pp.) [in Hebrew].
  2. Neiger, M., Zandberg, E., & Meyers M. (2008). The Rhetoric of Criticism: Challenging Criticism, Reaffirming Criticism, and Israeli Journalism during the Second Lebanon War. The Media in the Lebanon War series, Tel-Aviv: The Rothschild-Caesarea School of Communication, Tel Aviv University. (52 pp.). [in HEB] [Link - Full publication]

 

Related Grants and Prizes:

  1.  2014-2016, Israel Science Foundation [ISF 465/13]: Journalism and the challenge of time: A comparative study of news temporalities [with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Hebrew U.] and the international workshop (2017): Public Time and Media Temporalities in an Age of Acceleration.
  2. 2007     The Rothschild-Caesarea fund, Hertzog Institute, Tel-Aviv U., Criticism and the Media in the Lebanon War 2006.                   
  3. 2008     Israel Second Authority for TV and Radio;   TV News and Worst-Case Scenarios: Exploring Reporting on Anticipated Catastrophes
  4. 2017     Dan Prize for Excellence in Research (best paper of Israeli media scholar in the years 2015-2017), Tel-Aviv University,  [with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt]
  5. 2018     Project: The Collective Vision: The media and the construction of a shared social, The Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace,
  6. 2020     Smart Institute, The Hebrew U., Worlds of Journalism study [with Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt]

 

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