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Books

• Ilan, J. (2018). The International Photojournalism Industry: Cultural Production and the Making and Selling of News Pictures. New York, NY: Routledge.

Articles (published/accepted for publication)

• Ilan, J. (2024). “What the Heck is Going On in the Group!”: Challenging Journalistic Authority by Pseudo-Professional WhatsApp News Groups. Journalism Practice, 1-17. 

• Ilan, J. (2024). News Production and the People of Silence: Pseudo-Professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility. Journalism Studies, 25(6),  643-661.

• Ilan, J. (2022). Live and Kicking: Digital Live Broadcasting Technologies, Participating Strangers and News Mobility. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2325-2344.

• Ilan, J. (2021). We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting. Digital Journalism, 9(4), 481-499.

• Ilan, J. (2020). Glocalization and international news-photo production: News images from Israel made for global news markets. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 21(6), 784-799.

• Ilan, J. (2019). Saving some news for later: The making and gatekeeping process of the national TV news filler. Communication Review, 22(1), 26-44.

• Ilan, J. (2017). News and the word-image problematic: A (key)word on international news pictures production. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 18(8), 977-993.

• Ilan, J., and Kama, A. (2016). Where has all the magic gone?: Audience interpretive strategies of The Hobbit’s film/novel rivalry. Participations, 13(2), 289-307.

• Ilan, J. (2015) Over a dead body: International coverage of grief. Semiotica, 2015(205), 229-242.

• Ilan, J. (2015) Just when I thought I was in: Gaining access in a new(s) production ethnography. Journalism Practice, 9(2), 153-167.

• Ilan, J. (2014) Intertextuality and news photography production: International making of a pictorial echo. International Journal of Communication 8, 2879-2898.

• Ilan, J. (2013) The best of both worlds: The story of the Reuters picture service. Media History 19(1), 74-92

Book Chapters

• Ilan, J. (2025). Global Photojournalism Distribution Networks. In Boyd-Barrett, O. and Aguiar, P. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of News Agencies. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)

• Ilan, J. (2022). Glocalization and news production. In: Roudometof, V. and Dessi, U. (Eds.),Handbook of Culture and Glocalization (pp. 289-304). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Articles in the media

• Ilan, J. (2024, November 20). Idan Kenan Cohen’s Selfie is the Representing Image of this War. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-11-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000193-4956-d824-afff-4ffe02110000.   

• Ilan, J. (2024, October 11). We’re Doing just Great!. The7eye. https://www.the7eye.org.il/531827.  

• Ilan, J. (2024, August 13). How Come the Journalists who Interview our Brave Military Officers are such Cowards?. The7eye. https://www.the7eye.org.il/526901. 

• Yadlin, A. and Ilan, J. (2024, August 11). The Public Effort to Accept the New IDF's Handicapped Soldiers is Blessed. But What About Those Who Were Simply Born Handicapped or Became Ones and aren’t Soldiers?. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-08-11/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000191-415a-d529-a5f5-5bfe47840000. 

• Ilan, J. (2024, July 8). When do we know it’s time to leave?. The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/500676/. 

• Ilan, J. (2024, April 15). A step from destruction: A restraint action is required. Haokets.  

• Ilan, J. (2024, April 9). Killing Mahdawi and Haniyeh's sons: Why now?. Haokets. https://shorturl.at/qrvAV. 

• Ilan, J. (2024, April 1). We’re here, they’re still there. The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/476276/.  

• Ilan, J. (2024, March 21). A military parade in the third grade is too early. Leave the kids alone. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-03-21/ty-article-opinion/.premium/0000018e-6145-dabd-adff-69ddf62d0000.

• Ilan, J. (2024, February 14). Have some modesty. The7eye. https://www.the7eye.org.il/510757. 

• Ilan, J. (2024, January 17). Will the kidnapped end-up like Ron Arad?. The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/456498/. 

• Ilan, J. (2023, November 12). The Gaza-based Photojournalists’ Controversy: The Question that Wasn’t Asked by Honest Reporting. The7eye. https://www.the7eye.org.il/502678.

• Ilan, J. (2023, October 18). Zero in Leadership. The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/430211/.

• Ilan, J. (2023, October 13). A Letter to a Soldier: Don’t Lose Your Humanity. Haokets. https://rb.gy/gsm4b.  

• Ilan, J. (2023, August 13). Master of the Land: What does Elisha Yered’s smile say?. The7eye. https://www.the7eye.org.il/494614?fbclid=IwAR0BPQ_C-Sjs1ThLJ-Xv6uGSj2BiXYoUJGh9XRzzrMaIeXYOMJE24zc0NYg. 

• Ilan, J. (2023, June 28). Our finest soldiers at the “petting section”. Haokets. https://shorturl.at/rvM24.

• Ilan, J. (2023, May 24). What if we didn’t have the “Iron Dome” defence system?. Haokets. https://shorturl.at/moEM9.  

• Ilan, J. (2023, May 16). Videos of the bombings published by Israeli Airforce and dead children in Gaza. Haokets. https://shorturl.at/flxQZ

• Ilan, J. (2023, May 12). The rape in Shomrat did not change us as a society. Haokets. https://shorturl.at/adiRW.

• Ilan, J. (2023, March 21). The democracy here isn’t that great either. The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/381498/.

• Ilan, J. (2022, May 10). It’s not the cigarette in the terrorist’s mouth, it’s the braces. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/.premium-1.10790008.

• Ilan, J. (2021, December 22). So Louie’s back (Ba-dum ching). The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/277042/.

• Ilan, J. (2021, October 25). The rapist officer did not operate in a vacuum. Haokets.  https://www.haokets.org/ps/97612/?fbclid=IwAR2WzbBcYN4_ubapzxdqmPV23uclVuj3nzhKQQwH9XoGTU_WmdREFYaibDg.

• Ilan, J. (2021, October 5). 9/11: A rare televisual event. The Times of Israel. https://www.zman.co.il/256646/?fbclid=IwAR3D2ruEGI_IkUS-Imwct9V56oE_YZLUFP5aNm5A1AZoX-cYMHq21Uq7Q_0. 

• Ilan, J. (2021, September 19). Beware of the image of politicians in the kitchen. The7eye. https://www.the7eye.org.il/430078?fbclid=IwAR2pvrvVIKNCIhZnbOT_0bPkwwy0FmryxLPu96NleVQT_FGmMo45rNESrA0.

• Ilan, J. (2021, September 10). Escaping prisoners and the open wild pit. Haokets. https://www.haokets.org/ps/97470/?fbclid=IwAR299fFwhlb6bT8Btlxm8nU4hTlpSxtyYg3evfneIOwcIvAwwwmb0144Eps.

• Ilan, J. (2021, August 26). “Defeated” Hamas is having the upper hand. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/1.10153844.

• Ilan, J. (2021, May 19). There is no “image of victory”. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/.premium-1.9821598.

• Ilan, J. (2021, March 18). The interview that keeps on giving nothing. Opinions. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/.premium-1.9631942. 

• Ilan, J. (2021, March 9). Drigues is paving his way back to the concentsuts. Haokets. https://www.haokets.org/ps/96207/?fbclid=IwAR1i6F0uzRtZJv-fglbn9R2di3e66oIhmwgPCTdxHhmrlDJusnXAXsif7C8. 

• Ilan, J. (2016, January 19). The smartphones killed the referent. Markerweek. TheMarker. https://www.themarker.com/markerweek/1.2811353.

Conference Presentations 

• “What the Heck is Going On Here in the Group!”: A Pseudo-professional WhatsApp News Group Claiming Journalistic Authority”. Paper presented at the 74^th ICA conference (Mobile Communication Division) held at Gold Coast, Australia, June 2024 [on-line].

• “WhatsApp with the News: Non-Professional WhatsApp News Groups and Digital Prodnewsers in the Era of News Mobility”. Paper presented at the FOJ2023 (Future of Journalism) conference held at Cardiff University in Wales, UK, September 2023.

• “The News People of Silence: Non-Professional WhatsApp News Groups and Digital Prodnewsers in the Era of News Mobility”. Paper presented at the annual MeCCSA (Media, Communications and Cultural Studies) conference held at the Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow, Scotland, September 2023.

• The 73rd ICA (International Communication Association) conference held at Toronto, Canada (Chair of the “Visual Affect: Self and Others” panel and Discussant at the “Future of Images, Imagining Futures: Evolving Technologies and Emerging Visual Trends”, Visual Communication Studies Division). 

• The 25th ISCA (Israeli Communication Association) conference held at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel, April 2023 (chair and commentator, Computer-Mediated Relations)

• The 24th ISCA (Israeli Communication Association) conference held at the Hebrew University, Israel, June 2022 (chair and commentator, Social Gaps and National Disruption).

• “Live and Kicking: Digital Live-Broadcasting Technologies, Participating Strangers and News Mobility. Paper presented at the 72nd ICA conference (Mobile Communication Division) held at Paris, France, May 2022.

• “Live and Kicking: Digital Live Broadcast Technologies, Live “Prodnewsers” and News Mobility”. Paper presented at the 8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers (CIIA) [on-line] held at the University of  Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2021. 

• “We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting. Paper presented at the 27th SEP International Congress (Digital Transformation: Challenges and Expectations for Journalism) conference [on-line] held at Seville, Spain, May 2021.

• “Reinventing Live in the News? LiveU’s Digital Live Broadcast Technology and its Implementation in Professional TV News”. Paper presented at the IAMCR [on-line] conference (Journalism Research & Education section) held at Tampere, Finland, July 2020.

• “Who was wrong and where”. Conference held at the Begin-Saadat Center for strategic research (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, May 2019 (Chairman at the session: “The Blue & White party’s Commanders in Chief of the IDF and the Israeli Left: A sign of hope or disappointment?”).

• “Saving some news for later: The making and gatekeeping process of the national TV news filler”. Paper presented at the Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) (“What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness”) held at Brussels, Belgium, December 2018.

• “Local news imagery for global news markets: Glocalization and international news-photo production”. Paper presented at the ICA conference (Journalism Studies Division) held at Prague, Czech Republic, May 2018.

• The 22nd ISCA (Israeli Communication Association) conference held at the College of Management, Rishon Lezion, Israel, March 2018 (commentator at the Media and National Memory panel).

• “Film—Novel Rivalry in the Eyes of the Beholders: Viewers’ Observations on the Hobbit Cinematographic Adaptations”. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference held at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, September 2017.

• “A cinematic triumph or a catastrophic adaptation: Interpretive struggles of The Hobbit’s cinematic adaptation”. Paper presented at the Israeli Communications Association (ISCA) held at the Sapir College, Israel, April 2017. 

• “Where has all the magic gone?: Audience interpretive strategies of The Hobbit’s film-novel rivalry”. Paper presented at the Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference (EIFAC) held at Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2017.

• “Visual images for global news markets: Production mechanisms and international news organizations”. Paper presented at the “News images and icons in the digital age: Photojournalism in transition” workshop held at Tel-Aviv and Hebrew universities, Israel, January 2017.

• “Words selling images: International news pictures’ production and the word force dedicated to their commercial success”. Paper presented at the ICA conference (Media Industries division) held at Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016.

• “News and the word-image problematic: A (key)word on international news pictures’ production”.  Paper presented at the ISCA conference held at Kineret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel, April 2016.

• “News and the word-image problematic: A (key)word on international news pictures’ production”. Paper presented at the IAMCR conference (Journalism Research & Education section) held at UQAM, Montreal, Canada, July 2015.

• “Picturing the World's News: News Photography, Cultural Production, Thomson Reuters and the International Process of News Making”  presented at the “Advancing Media Production Research” – an  International Communication Association (ICA) post-conference symposium, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, June 2013.

• “Picturing the World's News: News Photography and Cultural Production in 'Thomson-Reuters’ International News Agency”. Presented at "History of electronic images: a long term perspective”. Cite’ des Te’le’coms, Pleumeur-Bodou, France. September, 2009.

• Doctoral thesis presented at the “Media, Communication and information Technologies: Developing Perspectives in Social Research” workshop. London School of Economics and Political Science. June 2009.

• “Shooting News for the world to see: Production Processes of News Pictures in a Global News Agency”. Paper presented at the conference “Behind the Camera, in front of the system”, Hadassah college of Jerusalem, Israel, May 2007.