orcid.org/0000-0003-2124-8251publications
Lough, K. (Forthcoming). Improving representation through a solutions lens: Photojournalists’ perception and process of solutions visual journalism. Visual Communication Quarterly.
van Antwerpen, N., & Lough, K. (2025). The Effects of Solutions versus ‘Heart-warmer’ Journalism on Audience Wellbeing, Self-Efficacy, and Trust. Media Psychology. [Publication] [OSF Preregistration, Data]
Ashe, I., & Lough, K. (2025). Seeing Beyond Crisis: Analyzing Photographs and Photographer Bylines in Solutions-Oriented Environmental Journalism Stories. Journalism Studies, 26(1), 41-61. [Publication] [Featured in Journalism Research News]
Lough, K., McIntyre, K., & Roff, K. (2024). Beyond the Classroom: Evaluating Solutions Journalism Education from the Perspective of University Graduates. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. [Publication] [Featured by the University of Adelaide] [Featured by the Scholastic Journalism division of AEJMC]
Alvarez-Hernandez, L. R., Lough, K., & Estevez, R. (2024). “You Aren’t Alone”: An Analysis of Trans Latinas’ Use of Instagram. [Publication]
Hassan, S. & Lough, K. (2024). A Cross-Cultural Study of Visual Framing in News Photos Surrounding General Soleimani’s Assassination. Journal of Media Research and Studies. [Publication]
Lough, K., Wallace, R., & Overgaard, C. S. B. (2024). Context clues: Citizens and their higher valuation of the contextualist journalist role. Newspaper Research Journal. [Publication]
McIntyre, K., & Lough, K. (2023). Evaluating the effects of solutions and constructive journalism: A systematic review of audience-focused research. Newspaper Research Journal. [Publication]
Lough, K. (2023). Two days, twenty outfits: Coachella attendees’ visual presentation of self and experience on Instagram. Journal of Visual Literacy. [Publication] [Conference Poster/summary]
Lough, K. & Mortensen, T. (2022). Routine and individual-level influences on newspaper front-page images: Wire photographs, staff photojournalism, race and gender. Journalism Practice. [Publication] [Featured in The J Word podcast]
Briscoe, A. & Lough, K. (2021) Using a headshot assignment to incorporate critical theory into photojournalism classrooms. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. [Publication]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2021) A systematic review of constructive and solutions journalism research. Journalism. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Lough, K. & Ashe, I. (2021) Journalism’s visual construction of place in environmental coverage. Newspaper Research Journal. [Publication] [Featured faculty research]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2021). Transitioning to solutions journalism: One newsroom's shift to solutions-focused reporting. Journalism Studies. [Publication] [One-page summary]
Lough, T., Witherspoon, K. & Lough, K. (2021) “A Possibility of a Lady Competitor:” Helen Preece and the 1912 Olympic Modern Pentathlon. Journal of Olympic History. [Publication (pp. 38-47)]
Lough, K. (2020). Judging photojournalism: The metajournalistic discourse of judges in two photojournalism competitions. Journalism Studies. [Publication] [Featured faculty research]
Lough, K. (2020). Patriarchal Pits: The gendered experiences of female concert photographers. Journal of Gender Studies. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Brown, D., Lough, K., & Riedl, M. (2020). Emotional appeals and news values as factors of shareworthiness in Ice Bucket Challenge News Coverage. Digital Journalism. [Publication] [Featured by Data Driven Journalism]
McIntyre, K., & Lough, K. (2019). Toward a clearer conceptualization and operationalization of solutions journalism. Journalism. [Publication]
Lough, K. & Hassan, S. (2019). The Pictures in our Pages: Intermedia visual agenda setting between the Associated Press and US newspapers. The Agenda Setting Journal. [Publication] [Video of conference presentation]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2019). Visualizing the Solution: An analysis of the images that accompany solutions-oriented news stories. Journalism. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Lough, K. (2019). A Gate in the Wall of Sound: Music photographers, access and the field. Journalism Practice. [Publication] [Featured in HTBARP Podcast]
Lough, K. (2018). Intermedia visual agenda setting- Comparing wire service top photo distribution to what makes the front page. The Agenda Setting Journal. [Publication]
McIntyre, K., Lough, K. & Manzanares, K. (2018). Solutions in the shadows: The effects of incongruent visual messaging in solutions journalism news stories. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2018). Journalists’ perceptions of solutions journalism and its place in the field. Research Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. [Publication] [Featured by ISOJ] [Video of presentation at ISOJ]
Lough, K., Molyneux, L., & Holton, A. (2017). A clearer picture: Journalistic identity practices in words and images on Twitter. Journalism Practice. [Publication] [Poster from AEJMC 2017]
Bock, M., Lough, K., & Fadnis, D. (2017). “Her” photographer: The Roanoke Live Shot Murders and Visual Communication’s Place in the Newsroom. Visual Communication Quarterly. [Publication] [Featured by Journalism Research News] [Featured by Women on Deadline podcast]
van Antwerpen, N., & Lough, K. (2025). The Effects of Solutions versus ‘Heart-warmer’ Journalism on Audience Wellbeing, Self-Efficacy, and Trust. Media Psychology. [Publication] [OSF Preregistration, Data]
Ashe, I., & Lough, K. (2025). Seeing Beyond Crisis: Analyzing Photographs and Photographer Bylines in Solutions-Oriented Environmental Journalism Stories. Journalism Studies, 26(1), 41-61. [Publication] [Featured in Journalism Research News]
Lough, K., McIntyre, K., & Roff, K. (2024). Beyond the Classroom: Evaluating Solutions Journalism Education from the Perspective of University Graduates. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. [Publication] [Featured by the University of Adelaide] [Featured by the Scholastic Journalism division of AEJMC]
Alvarez-Hernandez, L. R., Lough, K., & Estevez, R. (2024). “You Aren’t Alone”: An Analysis of Trans Latinas’ Use of Instagram. [Publication]
Hassan, S. & Lough, K. (2024). A Cross-Cultural Study of Visual Framing in News Photos Surrounding General Soleimani’s Assassination. Journal of Media Research and Studies. [Publication]
Lough, K., Wallace, R., & Overgaard, C. S. B. (2024). Context clues: Citizens and their higher valuation of the contextualist journalist role. Newspaper Research Journal. [Publication]
McIntyre, K., & Lough, K. (2023). Evaluating the effects of solutions and constructive journalism: A systematic review of audience-focused research. Newspaper Research Journal. [Publication]
Lough, K. (2023). Two days, twenty outfits: Coachella attendees’ visual presentation of self and experience on Instagram. Journal of Visual Literacy. [Publication] [Conference Poster/summary]
Lough, K. & Mortensen, T. (2022). Routine and individual-level influences on newspaper front-page images: Wire photographs, staff photojournalism, race and gender. Journalism Practice. [Publication] [Featured in The J Word podcast]
Briscoe, A. & Lough, K. (2021) Using a headshot assignment to incorporate critical theory into photojournalism classrooms. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. [Publication]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2021) A systematic review of constructive and solutions journalism research. Journalism. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Lough, K. & Ashe, I. (2021) Journalism’s visual construction of place in environmental coverage. Newspaper Research Journal. [Publication] [Featured faculty research]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2021). Transitioning to solutions journalism: One newsroom's shift to solutions-focused reporting. Journalism Studies. [Publication] [One-page summary]
Lough, T., Witherspoon, K. & Lough, K. (2021) “A Possibility of a Lady Competitor:” Helen Preece and the 1912 Olympic Modern Pentathlon. Journal of Olympic History. [Publication (pp. 38-47)]
Lough, K. (2020). Judging photojournalism: The metajournalistic discourse of judges in two photojournalism competitions. Journalism Studies. [Publication] [Featured faculty research]
Lough, K. (2020). Patriarchal Pits: The gendered experiences of female concert photographers. Journal of Gender Studies. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Brown, D., Lough, K., & Riedl, M. (2020). Emotional appeals and news values as factors of shareworthiness in Ice Bucket Challenge News Coverage. Digital Journalism. [Publication] [Featured by Data Driven Journalism]
McIntyre, K., & Lough, K. (2019). Toward a clearer conceptualization and operationalization of solutions journalism. Journalism. [Publication]
Lough, K. & Hassan, S. (2019). The Pictures in our Pages: Intermedia visual agenda setting between the Associated Press and US newspapers. The Agenda Setting Journal. [Publication] [Video of conference presentation]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2019). Visualizing the Solution: An analysis of the images that accompany solutions-oriented news stories. Journalism. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Lough, K. (2019). A Gate in the Wall of Sound: Music photographers, access and the field. Journalism Practice. [Publication] [Featured in HTBARP Podcast]
Lough, K. (2018). Intermedia visual agenda setting- Comparing wire service top photo distribution to what makes the front page. The Agenda Setting Journal. [Publication]
McIntyre, K., Lough, K. & Manzanares, K. (2018). Solutions in the shadows: The effects of incongruent visual messaging in solutions journalism news stories. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. [Publication] [Twitter thread summary- archived]
Lough, K. & McIntyre, K. (2018). Journalists’ perceptions of solutions journalism and its place in the field. Research Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. [Publication] [Featured by ISOJ] [Video of presentation at ISOJ]
Lough, K., Molyneux, L., & Holton, A. (2017). A clearer picture: Journalistic identity practices in words and images on Twitter. Journalism Practice. [Publication] [Poster from AEJMC 2017]
Bock, M., Lough, K., & Fadnis, D. (2017). “Her” photographer: The Roanoke Live Shot Murders and Visual Communication’s Place in the Newsroom. Visual Communication Quarterly. [Publication] [Featured by Journalism Research News] [Featured by Women on Deadline podcast]