I am a PhD candidate for Department of Information Science and Media studies at the University of Bergen and a member of Journalism and Media Industries research group. I hold a master’s degree from the same institution. My work and research interests’ centres questions of the role of journalism in our society, professional change, journalistic expertise and the organisation of news work in contemporary media environments.

My PhD project examines the transformation of journalism, professionalism and ideals in relation of specialised news beats. Historically, news beats have played a central role in newsroom organisation, enabling journalists to develop expertise, build source networks, and uphold journalism´s professional authority. However, digitalisation, economic restructuring, technological innovation and changing audience expectations are reshaping the conditions under which specialised journalism operates. Through empirical studies of prominent beats such as culture, politics and sports, I explore how journalists and editors in legacy media organisations negotiate expertise, professional identity, newsroom priorities, and authority in a rapidly changing media landscape within their specialised domains. Drawing on theories of professionalisation and discursive institutionalism, my work analyses how professional norms interact with organisational strategies and broader institutional developments. Methodologically, I combine qualitative and quantitative approaches, including interviews, content analysis and survey data explore the transformations of the news beats. 

The overall aim of my research is to contribute to ongoing debates about the future of journalistic professionalism and specialisation. By using news beats as a lens, I seek to understand how journalists maintain, negotiate and redefine expertise in today’s newsroom environments. More broadly, my work explores what these developments means for journalism´s professional authority, democratic role and the production of specialised knowledge.

MEVI102 V2024 Theory and method in qualitative research

DIGI115  V2024 Data and democracy

MEVI111 H2024 Norwegian Media in a Comparative Perspective, emneansvarlig 

DIGI115 V2025 Data and democracy

DIGI615 H2025 Data and democracy

MEVI111 H2025 Norwegian Media in a Comparative Perspective

MEVI120 V2026 Qualitative methods in media studies

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Ellingsberg, V. (2025) Cultural Journalism under Pressure: How Editors hire and define competence. Publisert Journalism Practice

DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2026.2633259

Larsen, L.O, Ellingsberg, V. (2024) Den usynlige kulturjournalistikken. Redaksjonelle prioriteringer og tekstlige reorienteringer i det digitale medielandskapet. Publisert i Norsk Medietidsskrift

https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/nmt.31.1.2

Member of the Worlds of Journalism https://worldsofjournalism.org/ led by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova. 

Researcher for "Cultural journalsim 3.0", led by Professor Leif Ove Larsen, University of Bergen. 

Researcher for "Minority journalists and press councils in Europe. MCDA4/WP4" led by David Domingo, Florence Le Cam, Marie Fierens, Elena Louazon, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles.