Publications
Yang, S.-U., & Browning, N. (2024). Editor’s Essay: Reflections, Resolutions, and Outlook for the New Year. Journal of Public Relations Research, 36(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2024.2304473
Browning, N., & Yang, S.-U. (2022). Editor’s essay: Reflecting on OPR research. Journal of Public Relations Research, 34(5), 175-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2022.2125152
Browning, N. (2022). Betsy Ann Plank: The Making of a Public Relations Icon. American Journalism, 39(3), 340-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2022.2097842
Heatherly, K., Yang, S.-U., Browning, N., and Kim, E. (2022). Words, Money, or Action? How Corporate Social Advocacy Drove Media Coverage in Response to the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020. Public Relations Journal, 15(2), 1-22. https://prjournal.instituteforpr.org/wp-content/uploads/Heatherly.PRJ_.15.2.pdf
Yang, S.-U., & Browning, N. (2022). Editor’s essay: A new Chapter. Journal of Public Relations Research, 34(1-2), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2022.2073728
Thompson, W., & Browning, N. (2022). Writing for Public Relations and Strategic Communication. San Diego, CA: Cognella. [Watch the authors discuss the overarching pedagogy for the textbook]
Moon, B., & Browning, N. (2022). When publics collide: Developing the dual orientation conflict model in inter-public conflict. Public Relations Review, 48(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102211 [Published as part of the special issue, The Contingency Theory of Strategic Conflict Management]
Browning, N. (2022). Ethics in Public Relations. In G. A. Borchard (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism (2nd ed.) (pp. 1353-1357). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781544391199.n336
Browning, N., Lee, E., Lee, S. H., Yang, S.-U. (2022). We're All In This Together: Legitimacy and Coronavirus-Oriented CSR Messaging. Sustainability, 14(5), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052534 [Published as part of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication's special issue, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Advocacy, and Societal Changes]
Comfort, S. E., Gruszczynski, M., & Browning, N. (2022). Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990211047949
Browning, N. (2021). What is Shared in the Sharing Economy? Ethics and Externalities in Public-Private Partnerships. Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, 9(1), 18-51. https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=ijlse
Browning, N., Lee, E., Park, Y. E., Kim, T. & Collins, R. (2020). Muting or Meddling? Advocacy as a Relational Communication Strategy Affecting Organization-Public Relationships and Stakeholder Response. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97(4), 1026-1053. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020916810
Browning, N., & Sweetser, K. D. (2020). How Media Diet, Partisan Frames, Candidate Traits, and Political Organization-Public Relationship Communication Drive Party Reputation. Public Relations Review, 46(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101884
Browning, N., Yang, S.-U., Park, Y. E., Lee, E., & Kim, T. (2019). Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(4), 1145-1171. https://doi.org/10.117/1077699019835903
Browning, N. (2018). Ethics and the Profession: The Crystallizing of PR Practice from Association to Accreditation, 1936-1964. American Journalism, 35(2), 140-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2018.1455400 [Selected for Teaching Our Journal]
Browning, N., Gogo, O., & Kimmel, M. (2018). Comprehending CSR Messages: Applying the Elaboration Likelihood Model. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 23(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-07-2017-0068
Cacciatore, M. A., Browning, N., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M., & Corley, E. A. (2018). Opposing ends of the spectrum: Exploring trust in scientific and religious authorities. Public Understanding of Science, 27(1), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662516661090
Sweetser, K. D., & Browning, N. (2017). Credibility or Credulity? Examining Political Organization-Public Relationships in an Election of Interloping Candidates. Journal of Public Relations Research, (29)5, 200-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2017.1388240
Browning, N. (2015). The Ethics of Two-Way Symmetry and the Dilemmas of Dialogic Kantianism. Journal of Media Ethics, 30(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.985295
Browning, N., & Sweetser, K. D. (2014). The Let Down Effect: Satisfaction, Motivation, and Credibility Assessments of Political Infotainment. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(6), 810-826. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515227
Browning, N. (2011). "Mad Money" Madness: Jim Cramer's Image Restoration Effort. Public Relations Review, 37(2), 184-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2011.01.009