You’ll find a list of selected publications in news translation from the NewsTraN members, by alphabetical order below.

Roberto Valdeón wrote an introductory article titled “Journalistic translation research twenty-five years on: methods, topics, and prospects” for the upcoming thematic issue of Perspectives. This issue comprises twelve articles on diverse topics, employing various methodologies, and representing the key geographical regions where news translation has received significant attention—namely Europe, North America, and China. The article provides an overview of research in journalistic translation over the past five years and serves as an introduction to the thematic issue. The article can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2025.2516364

Lucile Davier’s and Ashley Riggs‘ co-edited book Constructive News across Cultures has been published by Routledge in the IATIS (International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies) Yearbook. Constructive news is an alternative to the negativity of if-it-bleeds-it-leads journalism but still unfamiliar to some audiences and still relatively under-researched, particularly by news translation scholars. And yet, it is “done” across cultures and, therefore, languages. This innovative book contributes to filling that research gap and raising awareness of the phenomenon by showcasing cross-cultural research on constructive news, including in the Global South – a region that has traditionally received less scholarly attention than the Global North.
More information on: https://www.routledge.com/Constructive-News-Across-Languages-and-Cultures/Riggs-Davier/p/book/9781032849058?srsltid=AfmBOoonvJjJkgamIQsQsfWj-aAl21GLE8VANPlLbYNr_YUot9nGm_J2

Mairi McLaughlin and Léa Huotari have published an article titled “A mixed-methods analysis of the translation of quotations in international news dispatches” where they examine the translation of quotations in news agency dispatches from English to French. The research utilizes a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of a parallel corpus of source and translated dispatches. The findings discuss the importance of quotations in news agency dispatches and identify factors influencing the retention or omission of quotations in the translation process. The study contributes to our understanding of news translation practices and highlights the need for further comparative research in this dynamic field.
The article can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1075/target.24133.huo

Boulanger, Pier-Pascale and Chantal Gagnon. 2025. “How constructive is the coverage of Canadians in debt? Analysis of constructive cues in English- and French-language newspapers.” In Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures, edited by Ashley Riggs and Lucile Davier. Routledge.

Boulanger, Pier-Pascale and Chantal Gagnon. 2023. “Le corpus journalistique dans l’enseignement de la traduction économique et financière.” TTR 36, no. 1: 107–135. https://doi.org/10.7202/1107568ar

Boulanger, Pier-Pascale and Chantal Gagnon. 2018. “The translation of ‘transparency’ in the Canadian press: An inquiry into symbolic power.” Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 28, no. 3: 339–356. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2018.1531896

Boulanger, Pier-Pascale and Chantal Gagnon. 2018. “Financial innovation and institutional voices in the Canadian press: A look at the roaring 2000s.” International Journal of Business Communication 55, no. 3: 383–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488417747596

Davier, Lucile. 2022. “‘People have probably offered to buy me a dictionary 20 times since I’ve been here’: Risk management within a community of journalists in francophone Canada.” JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation 37: 35–54. https://jostrans.soap2.ch/issue37/art_davier.php

Davier, Lucile. 2019. “Technological convergence threatening translation: The professional vision of francophone journalists in Canada.” In Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence, edited by Lucile Davier and Kyle Conway, 177–207. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Davier, Lucile, and Luc van Doorslaer. 2018. “Translation without a source text: methodological issues in news translation?” Across Languages and Cultures 19 (2): 241–258. https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2018.19.2.6

Davier, Lucile. 2014. “The paradoxical invisibility of translation in the highly multilingual context of news agencies.” Global Media and Communication 10 (1): 53–2. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766513513196 

Dias Sousa, Márcia. 2025. “‘¡Todos, todos, todos!’: (non)constructive coverage of the Pope and World Youth Day 2023 by the Global North and the Global South”. In Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures, edited by Ashley Riggs and Lucile Davier. Routledge (forthcoming).

Dias Sousa, Márcia. 2021. Como se reescreve um Papa? a tradução no campo jornalístico dos discursos papais na ONU [Doctoral thesis, Universidade Católica Portuguesa]. Veritati. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36605

Dias Sousa, Márcia. 2020. “Por detrás do ecrã: a (história da) tradução na RTP contada por quem sabe”. In Era uma vez a tradução: Ensaios sobre história da tradução em homenagem a Teresa Seruya, edited by Isabel Gil, Alexandra Lopes, and Maria Lin Moniz. Universidade de Lisboa and CECC-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 467–488

Dias Sousa, Márcia. 2018. “A retradução do património religioso num pequeno ponto do mundo: o caso do Diário dos Açores”. REVER – Revista de Estudos da Religião 18, no. 3: 75–100. https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2018vol18i3a6

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2024. Blurring borders in intralingual translation research: the case of journalistic translation, co-authored with Manuel Moreno Tovar. Perspectives: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2365867

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2022. Journalism and Translation: Overlapping Practices. In: Bielsa, Esperança (Ed.).  The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media, 169–182.  London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003221678-14.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2022. Stylistic Deceptions in Online News. Journalistic Style and the Translation of Culture. The Journal of Specialised Translation, 37: 203–208.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2021. South Africa’s image as translated in Dutch-language media. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 61: 1–15. DOI: 10.5842/61-0-915.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2021. Stereotyping by Default in Media Transfer. In: Jürgen Barkhoff, Joep Leerssen (Ed.).  National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises. Studia Imagologica; 27, 205–220.  Leiden: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004436107_012.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2019. Embedding imagology in Translation Studies. Slovo.ru: Baltic accent. 10: 56–68. 10.5922/2225-5346-2019-3-4.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2012. Translating, narrating and constructing images in journalism. With a test case on representation in Flemish TV news. Meta, 57 (4), 1046−1059. DOI: 10.7202/1021232ar.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2010. Journalism and Translation. In:  Handbook of Translation Studies, Volume 1, 180−184.  Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2010. The double extension of translation in the journalistic field. Across Languages and Cultures, 11 (2), 175−188.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2010. The Belgian conflict frame: The role of media and translation in Belgian political ideologies. In: Schäffner, Christina; Bassnett, Susan (Ed.). Political discourse, media and translation. (198–210). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2009. How Language and (Non-)Translation Impact on Media Newsrooms: The Case of Newspapers in Belgium. Perspectives, 17, 83−92.

Gagnon, Chantal and Pier-Pascale Boulanger. 2023. “Investigating positive/negative bias in Canadian newspapers through translation: A study of ‘confidence’ in a corpus of business news.” Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, n.p. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2023.2179930

Gagnon, Chantal, Esmaeil Kalantari and Pier-Pascale Boulanger. 2018. “How to approach translation in a financial news corpus.” Across Languages and Cultures 19, no. 2: 221–240. https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2018.19.2.5

Gambier, Yves and Olli Philippe Lautenbacher. 2023. « Introduction. Text and context revisited within a multimodal framework”, Babel 70, no. 1–2: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00368.gam

Gambier, Yves. “Genres, text-types and translation” // Handbook of Translation Studies. Vol. 4. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Co. p. 63

Gambier, Yves. 2018. Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation (co-editor: Elena Di Giovanni). Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.

Gambier, Yves. 2016. Translation and Translation Studies at the Crossroads of Digital Technologies. Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University. Series 9. Philology. Oriental studies. Journalism, 4: 56–74

Gambier, Yves. 2010 “Media, information et traduction à l’ère de la mondialisation.” In: Valdéón, R. A., Translating Information, Universidad de Oviedo: Oviedo, p. 13-30.

Gentile, Paola, Fruzsina Kovács and Marike van der Watt, eds. 2021. “Special Issue ‘Transnational Image Building: Linking up Translation Studies, Reception Studies and Imagology.’” Translation Spaces 10, no. 1: 1–4.

Havumetsä, Nina. 2023. “Lexical Borrowing in Journalism in a Time of Political Crisis.” Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 31, no. 3: 562–575. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2023.2194549.

Havumetsä, Nina. 2021. “Näkökulmia kieltenväliseen siteeraukseen journalismissa ja sen laadunarviointiin.” [Perspectives on Interlingual Quoting in Journalism and Its Quality Assessment] MikaEL 14: 29–43. https://www.sktl.fi/@Bin/2654272/MikaEL14+-+Havumetsa.pdf

Havumetsä, Nina. 2019. “Instances of Translatorial Action: A Journalist as a Translating Reporter of Speech.” Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 28, no. 3: 440–453. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1623270

Huotari, Léa, and Mairi McLaughlin. 2025. “A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Translation of Quotations in International News”. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, forthcoming

Huotari, Léa. 2025. “A Creative and Recreative Conceptualization of Source Text: The Case of Journalistic Translation.” Benjamins Translation Library, forthcoming.

Huotari, Léa, Minna Hjort and Outi Veivo. 2023. “Piilokääntäjät esiin: Paraprofessionaalinen kääntäminen suomalaisessa työelämässä” [Hidden translators out in the open: paraprofessional translation in Finnish working life]. MikaEL 16: 25–42. https://journal.fi/mikael/article/view/129198/78142

Kim, Kyung Hye. 2017. “Newsweek discourses about China and their Korean translations: a corpus-based approach.” Discourse, Context & Media 15: 34-44.

Kim, Kyung Hye. 2014. “Examining US News Media discourses about North Korea.” Discourse and Society 25, no. 2: 221-244.

Lautenbacher, Olli Philippe. 2024. “Translating what the image conveys or what it arouses? Delineating the threshold between inferability transfer and inference transfer in multimodal translation”. Babel International Journal of Translation, 70:1/2, 164–185. https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00381.lau

Lautenbacher, Olli Philippe. 2018. “The relevance of redundancy in multimodal documents”. Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series: Themes in Translation Studies, 17, 215–230. https://doi.org/10.52034/lanstts.v17i0.462

McLaughlin, Mairi, and Nicholas Brownlees. 2023. “Translation and the Press”. In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Vol I 1640-1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees. Edinburgh University Press, 384-403.

McLaughlin, Mairi. 2022. “La traductologie de corpus et la traduction journalistique historique”. META: Journal des traducteurs, special issue: ‘Exploring New Methods in Quantitative Translation Studies’, edited by Meng Ji and Michael Oakes, 67, no.1: 170-189.

McLaughlin, Mairi. 2015. “News Translation Past and Present: Silent Witness and Invisible Intruder”. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 23, no. 4: 1-18.

McLaughlin, Mairi. 2013. “News Translation as a Source of Syntactic Borrowing in Italian”. The Italianist 33, no. 3: 443-63.

McLaughlin, Mairi. 2011. Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation. Legenda.

Matsushita, Kayo, and Miyuki Inoue. 2022. “The Impact of Misinformation in Crises and the Need for Risk Management.” In Translating Crises, edited by [Editors’ names if available]. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350240087

Matsushita, Kayo. 2021. “Diverging Narratives: Exploring the Hidden Influence of Transquoting in Framing the Journalistic Portrayal of Shiori Ito.” Language and Intercultural Communication: 1–13.

Matsushita, Kayo. 2020. “Reporting Quotable yet Untranslatable Speech: Observations of Shifting Practices by Japanese Newspapers from Obama to Trump.” AILA Review 33: 157–175.

Matsushita, Kayo. 2019. When News Travels East: Translation Practices by Japanese Newspapers. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ISBN 9462701946

Matsushita, Kayo. 2019. “Globalization of the Emerging Media Newsroom: Implications for Translation and International News Flow in the Case of BuzzFeed Japan.” In Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence, edited by Lucile Davier and Kyle Conway. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 135-153. ISBN 9789027203151

Matsushita, Kayo. 2015. “Omission as a Key Strategy in Japanese News Translation: A Case Study of President Obama’s Speeches.” In And Translation Changed the World (and the World Changed Translation), edited by Alberto Fuertes and Ester Torres-Simón, Chapter 6. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 75-90. ISBN 1443871133

Matsushita, Kayo. 2014. “Risk Management as a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing News Translation Strategies.” Invitation to Translation Studies 12: 8396.

Nelissen, Elisa, and Jonathan Hendrickx. 2024. “How Does a National, Multilingual News Agency Contribute to News Diversity? A Mixed-Methods Case Study.” Journalism 25 (8): 1754–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231179784

Nelissen, Elisa, and Jack McMartin. 2022. “Localising Science News Flows in a Global Pandemic: Translational Sourcing Practices in Flemish Reporting on COVID-19 Vaccine Studies.” In The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare, edited by Piotr Blumczynski and Steven Wilson, 95–109. Routledge Studies in Health Humanities. New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003267843

Pöchhacker, Franz. 2018. “Media interpreting: From user expectations to audience Comprehension”, in Reception studies and audiovisual translation, ed. Elena Di Giovanni and Yves Gambier (John Benjamins, 253–276.

Riggs, Ashley, and Lucile Davier (eds). 2025. Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures. IATIS Yearbook 2025. London: Routledge.

Riggs, Ashley, and Lucile Davier. 2025. “Making the case for studying constructive news across languages and cultures.” In Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures, edited by Ashley Riggs and Lucile Davier. London: Routledge.

Riggs, Ashley. 2024. “Multimodal News Discourse and COVID-19: On the Interplay between Stylistic Features and Images in Three UK Newsbrands’ Early Framing of (the Pandemic in) Italy.” Language and Intercultural Communication 24 (3): 162–79. doi:10.1080/14708477.2024.2325134

Riggs, Ashley. 2024. “Verbal and visual communication in constructive news across cultures: A case study of a bilingual English-Spanish corpus with a focus on metaphor”. Language & Communication 96: 26–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.001

Filmer, Denise, and Ashley Riggs. 2023. “Translating the cultural Other during Covid: A comparative study of Italian and UK online news”. InTRAlinea 25. https://www.intralinea.org/archive/article/2647

Riggs, Ashley. 2021. “How Online News Headlines and Accompanying Images ‘Translate’ a Violent Event: A Cross-Cultural Case Study.” Language and Intercultural Communication 21 (3): 352–65. doi:10.1080/14708477.2020.1870486

Riggs, Ashley. 2020. Stylistic Deceptions in Online News: Journalistic Style and the Translation of Culture. Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350114203

van Rooyen, Marlie. 2025. “Thinking with actor-network theory to unearth the (in)visibility of translation in a journalistic setting.” In Field Research on Translation and Interpreting, edited by Regina Rogl, Daniela Schlager and Hanna Risku, Chapter 11. John Benjamins, 251–276. https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.165.11van

van Rooyen, Marlie and Lucile Davier. 2024. “Translation in mass media.” In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sociology, edited by Sergey Tyulenev and Wenyan Luo, Chapter 20. Routledge, 306–321. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003340843

van Rooyen, Marlie and van Doorslaer, Luc. 2021. News translation as collaboration in multilingual community radio stations in South Africa. Language and Intercultural Communication, 21 (3), 411−425. DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2021.1883046.

van Rooyen, Marlie. 2019. “Tracing convergence in the translation of community radio news.” In Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence, edited by Lucile Davier and Kyle Conway, Chapter 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 155–176. ISBN 978902720315.

van Rooyen, Marlie. 2018. “Investigating multilingual translation flows in community radio news in South Africa.” Across Languages and Cultures: A Multidisciplinary Journal for Translation and Interpreting Studies 19, no. 2: 259–278. https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2018.19.2.7

van Rooyen, Marlie. 2013. “Structure and agency in news translation: Applying Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Theory.” Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 31, no. 4: 495–506. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2013.864445

Valdeón, Roberto. 2024. “The Vulgarization Hypothesis and the Translation of Swearwords by Male and Female Translators in AVT in Spain,” Journal of Pragmatics 219: 1–11.

Valdeón, Roberto. 2023. “On the Cross-Disciplinary Conundrum: The Conceptualization of Translation in Translation and Journalism Studies,” Translation Studies 16, no. 2: 244–260.

Valdeón, Roberto. 2023. “Translation and the Tabloidization of the New York Times in Spanish,” The Translator 29, no. 3: 346–61.

Valdeón, Roberto.  2023. “Agenda-Setting and Journalistic Translation: The New York Times in English, Spanish, and Chinese,” Across Languages and Cultures 24, no. 2: 203–220.

Valdeón, Roberto. 2022. “On the Role of Indirect Translation in the History of News Production,” Target 34, no. 3: 419–440.

Verstappen, Marie, Elisa Nelissen, Michaël Opgenhaffen, and Jack McMartin. 2022. “Van persbericht tot Facebookpost: Remediatie en vertaling in Vlaamse wetenschapsnieuwskoppen.” Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap 50 (3): 210–30. https://doi.org/10.5117/TCW2022.3.005.VERS.

Zanettin, Federico. 2021. News Media Translation. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore: Cambridge University Press.

Zanettin, Federico. 2016. “‘The Deadliest Error’: Translation, International Relations and the News Media.” The Translator 22 (3): 303–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2016.1149754.

Zanettin, Federico. 2016. “Giornalista o Donna? Traduzione Giornalistica e Categorizzazione Di Appartenenza.” In Parlare Insieme. Studi per Daniela Zorzi, edited by Francesca Gatta, 363–82. Bononia University Press.