Publications

·Wadud, M. (2026, June). Sacred Fires and Moral Worlds: Islamic Digital Sermons and Transnational Climate Meaning-Making from the Global South. Paper accepted for presentation at the 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.·        

Wadud, M. (2026, June). Invisible Risk: Metajournalistic Discourse and the Ethics of Protecting Fixers in Global War Reporting. Paper accepted for presentation at the 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.     
 
Wadud, M. (2026, June). Selective Solidarity: Global Media Ethics and the Unequal Mourning of Palestinian Journalists. Paper accepted for presentation at the 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa. 
     
 Wadud, M. (2026, June). When Compassion Collapses: Global South Media, Hierarchies of Care, and the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh. Paper accepted for presentation at the 76th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Cape Town, South Africa.

Wadud, M. (2025, August). Pacific Palisades Under Fire: Community Journalism, Social Media, and Public Participation During the 2025 California Wildfires. Paper presented at AEJMC Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Wadud, M. (2025, August). “When Print Prestige Meets Platform Performance: A Netnographic Study of Time's and The Economist's Digital Strategies During the 2024 U.S. Election.” Paper presented at AEJMC Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Wadud, M. (2024). ‘Aunty, You Should Go (To Gaza) And Fight for Them’: An exploratory study of harassment on X during the Israel-Gaza War. Presented at AEJMC, Philadelphia.

Wadud, M. (2023). Genocides and the Press: How geopolitics and business interests shape coverage of the Rohingya genocide. ICA Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Wadud, M. (2023). Freelance Foreign Correspondents in an authoritarian country: How they negotiate safety: Presented at AEJMC Midwinter in Oklahoma.

Wadud, M. (2022). The Political Economy of Freelance Climate Journalists: Presented at AEJMC in Detroit.

Wadud, M. (2022). The Role of News Fixers in the International Reporting of the Rohingya Genocide: Postcolonial and Critical Political-Economic Perspective. Presented at AEJMC in Detroit.

Wadud, M. (2020). It is a risky profession. No one to protect us.” An exploratory study on how news stringers/freelancers negotiate safety issues. Presented at AEJMC Midwinter in Oklahoma.

Hasan, M., & Wadud, M. (2019). Reconceptualizing the Safety of Journalists in Bangladesh. Presented at the 5th annual Conference on the Safety of Journalists covering conflict and sensitive issues,’ in Oslo.