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It is now almost two weeks since I returned from the NordMedia 2007 conference, and impressions are beginning to settle somewhat. I often say that the most important change in journalism in the last 50 years is simply one of quantity: there is much more journalism out there now than there ever was (something that does not necessarily mean that there are more news stories, as seen here). Academica, so often accused of being out of step with reality, certainly isn't in this case: the working group on Journalism Research was the biggest one at the NordMedia 2007 conference, with 42 authors presenting 31 papers (the two second-biggest groups, with 21 papers each, was Political communication and Children, Youth and the Media). Two of the leading journals in the field, Journalism Studies and Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism, recently went from 4 to 6 issues per year. Big, transnational research projects on journalism are becoming more common (see here for a recent example). So just as there is more journalism, there is also more journalism research - one of my enduring impressions from the conference is precisely how much journalism research is going on. But - if more journalism does not necessarily mean more news stores, does more journalism research necessarily mean more knowledge about journalism? To no-one's surprise, my answer is an unequivocal yes. The papers I see, the articles I read, the projects I come into contact with are all far from esoteric, and it seems to me that journalism researchers are really attempting to grapple with all the changes that are happening within journalism right now, often in innovative ways. Papers presented at the conference included work on cross-media production cultures (the author very occasionally blogs here), digital newsrooms, hyperlinks in news presentation, how digital interaction between journalists and readers affect the objectivity norm, participatory journalism, the increased importance of audience ratings in judging what is "good" journalism etc etc - in short issues that in some way or other clearly connects to current debates about the state of journalism. I spent some time at the conference discussing a possible future research project on journalism and the post-Communist experience - another area I would argue is both topical and relevant. I hope it comes off... More info will (hopefully) follow.