| Newspaper Research Journal | |
| Editor: | Kris Boyle |
| Discipline: | Journalism |
| Abbreviation: | Newsp. Res. J. |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Country: | United States |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| History: | 1979-present |
| Website: | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/nrj |
| Link1: | https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/nrja/current |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/nrja |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
| Issn: | 0739-5329 |
| Eissn: | 2376-4791 |
| Oclc: | 42821649 |
| Lccn: | 86647217 |
The Newspaper Research Journal is a quarterly, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original social scientific (including newspaper management and media economics), historical and legal articles about all aspects of the global newspaper industry, including journalism. The editor-in-chief is Dane S. Claussen (Editor-in-Chief and executive director, Nonprofit Sector News). The journal is published by the Newspaper and Online News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in association with SAGE Publications.
Editors of the journal have been Gerald C. Stone (1979–88), Ralph Izard (1989-2000), Elinor Kelly Grusin and Sandra H. Utt (2001–17), and Dane S. Claussen (2017-2022). The current editor is Kris Boyle.
Newspaper Research Journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases and ProQuest databases.