Dr Tali Aharoni

Tali Aharoni is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital News. Before joining us, she was a Doctoral Researcher at the ERC-funded PROFECI project, which examines the social dynamics of media projections.

Tali pursued her Ph.D. in the Department of Communication & Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation research focuses on trust and distrust in news in contemporary media environments.

Tali holds a Master’s degree in communication and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her M.A. thesis explored expressions of distrust and suspicion in the narratives of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Tali’s research interests include news audiences, trust, news avoidance, social media, and journalistic production. She has recent publications on these themes in Journalism, New Media & Society, Journalism Studies, and Digital Journalism.

In 2022, Tali won several awards, including the Digital Journalism Outstanding Article Award, the Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award, and the Bob Franklin Journal Article Award (with Mikko Villi, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Pablo Boczkowski, Kaori Hayashi, Eugenia Mitchelstein, Akira Tanaka, and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik) for ‘Taking a break from news’.

For more information about Tali and her work, you can visit her Google Scholar profile.