[Organizer: Nete Nørgaard Christensen] The research priority area Journalism Studies – Crossing Boundaries focuses on journalism in a time of flux. Traditional conceptions of journalism as both practice and scholarly object have been transformed considerably in recent years by globalization, commercialization, digitalization, (de)-professionalization, etc. One main characteristic of these transformations is that the boundaries of journalism are increasingly blurred, content-wise, generically, aesthetically, professionally, technologically, and institutionally. While some argue that this blurring of boundaries have critically challenged the political and cultural roles of journalism and journalists in society, others argue that these roles have been revitalized or even re-invented. Whether the framing is critical or optimistic, the changes have prompted journalism studies to become a thriving and constantly expanding research field internationally and nationally, itself driven by cross-disciplinary roots. These changing and crossing boundaries of journalism and journalism studies are at the centre of the research priority Journalism Studies – Crossing Boundaries, which takes an interest in cultural, sociological as well as technological approaches to the study of, e.g., hard news or soft news, communicated by means of factual or opinionated genres, and produced by professionals or non-professionals in institutionalised or non-institutionalised media settings in Western and Non-Western contexts.