The Journal of Media Psychology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering media psychology. It was established in 1989 as the Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie and obtained its current name in 2008. It is published by Hogrefe. The current editor-in-chief is Nicholas David Bowman (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University). The incoming editor-in-chief is Caleb T. Carr (Illinois State University).

The list of editors above is only applicable to the journal as named Journal of Media Psychology. However, in the inaugural issue, Margrit Schreier offered a narrative accounting of the history of JMP prior to rebranding as an English-language journal.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, and Scopus.