Mehrnaz Khanjani, PhD

Department

Computer Science, Design and Journalism

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

• Khanjani Mehrnaz, Book Review: Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda by Moon, Ruth MoonRuth, Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda, 2024, Oxford University Press, 224 pp 2025
• Khanjani Mehrnaz, The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labour of International Reporting 2021
• Semati Mehdi, etal Who Speaks in the Broadcast News Coverage of the Iran Deal [Book Chapter] 2021
• Semati Mehdi, etal Iran in the American Cultural and Political Imagination [Book Chapter] 2021
• Semati Mehdi, etal Who Speaks in the Coverage of the Iran Deal in The New York Times and The Washington Post [Book Chapter] 2021
• Semati Mehdi, etal Theoretical Framework: Media Sociology, Indexing, Source Usage, and Framing [Book Chapter] 2021
• Semati Mehdi, etal The Iran Deal in Context: American Press Coverage of Iran from Coup to the Islamic Republic [Book Chapter] 2021
• Semati Mehdi, etal Iran and the American media: Press coverage of the 'Iran deal' in context 2021

Publications

• Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, Beyond Propaganda and Politics: Resistance in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Cinema
  11:1, p. 75 - 101 2025
• Media, War and Conflict
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, The US press and foreign policy information, cueing, and the democratic process in the Syrian conflict 2024
• The Journal of communication inquiry
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, Rebecca L. Stein, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
  47:1, p. 115 - 117 2023
• Journal of Communication Inquiry
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, Alternative Media and Change
  47:4 2023
• International Journal of Communication
  Ekdale Brian, etal Geographic Disparities in Knowledge Production: A Big Data Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Communication Publications from 1990 to 2019
  16 2022
• Journal of Communication Inquiry
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, Editor's Introduction
  45:3 2021
• Journal of Communication Inquiry
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, Editor's introduction
  45:4 2021
• Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, What matters most? Comparing coverage of Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal in the New York Times and the Wall street journal
  6:1 2020
• Newspaper Research Journal
  Khanjani Mehrnaz, The New York Times’ presentation of Iran’s government in news articles before and after the nuclear deal
  41:3 2020