- Panievsky, A., David, Y., Gidron, N. and Sheffer, L. (2025). Imagined Journalists: New Framework for Studying Media–Audiences Relationship in Populist Times. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 30(1), pp. 38–62. doi:10.1177/19401612241231541.
- Panievsky, A. (2023). Strategic Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate. Digital Journalism, 11(10), pp. 1940–1961. doi:10.1080/21670811.2022.2118144.
- Panievsky, A. (2022). The Strategic Bias: How Journalists Respond to Antimedia Populism. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(4), pp. 808–826. doi:10.1177/19401612211022656.
- Panievsky, A. (2021). Covering Populist Media Criticism: When Journalists’ Professional Norms Turn Against Them. International Journal of Communication, 15, pp. 2136–2155.
- Rogenhofer, J.M. and Panievsky, A. (2020). Antidemocratic populism in power: comparing Erdoğan’s Turkey with Modi’s India and Netanyahu’s Israel. Democratization, 27(8), pp. 1394–1412. doi:10.1080/13510347.2020.1795135.
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Dr Ayala Panievsky is a researcher specialising in media under attack, right-wing populism, and democratic backsliding. Her research appeared in journals such as The International Journal of Press/Politics and Digital Journalism, and featured in media outlets like the BBC, The News Agents, LBC and ABC. She is currently a Presidential Fellow in the Journalism Department at the City University of London, a Research Associate at the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.
She holds a PhD (no corrections) from Cambridge University, an MPhil in Political Communication (with distinction) from Goldsmiths College, and a BA in Journalism and Communication (with distinction) from the Honours Programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work received the ICA Outstanding Dissertation for 2024, the 2023 IJPP Best Article of the Year Award, and an honourable mention by the 2023 ICA Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award, among others.
As a former journalist, she works with journalists worldwide to improve the future of news in times of sophisticated threats to democracy, equality, freedom, and justice. Her first book, The New Censorship, will be out next year with Footnote Press.