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Newly published research highlights how typical discussions of news media decline miss the mark

Insights from recent empirical, peer-reviewed work strengthen the conversation around community information.

Mar 22

Newly published research highlights how typical discussions of news media decline miss the mark

Mar 22

The reasonability of misinformation

Republican media is peddling lies with reason and professionalism — and GOP partisans are never coming back to mainstream news

Nov 16, 2020

Nov 16, 2020

Published in
Journalism and Liberty

Stop Opportunistic News Consolidation During COVID-19: Protect Local News

Local newspapers are the bedrock for original newsgathering in communities, but roughly 36,000 news workers have endured lost jobs, cut…

Jun 30, 2020

Jun 30, 2020

College isn’t a myth, it’s an experience

Demanding more from remote learning is reasonable, but not for the reasons you’re thinking

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Notes on a hometown media census

In Champaign-Urbana, a college town home to the University of Illinois, the local newspaper has been slowly dying, its death recently…

Feb 17, 2020

Notes on a hometown media census

Feb 17, 2020

Future of Journalism-Spring 2019

Case Study: Local News in Champaign-Urbana

Jan 19, 2020

Future of Journalism-Spring 2019

Jan 19, 2020

#SMPAGWU, Summer Edition

Professor: Nikki Usher, Ph.D.

May 20, 2019

May 20, 2019

#Commladies know stuff about political communication, too.

What is always interesting as an academic — but in a lot of fields, too — is when you start to see your personal networks of horizontal…

Apr 10, 2019

Apr 10, 2019

#CommLadies Know (Lots of Stuff): Featuring Women-Led Authors of Journalism: Theory, Practice, and…

As discussed earlier in our open-access celebration of female journalism and communication scholars for International Women’s Day, there’s…

Mar 27, 2019

Mar 27, 2019

To Celebrate International Women’s Day — Cite a Female (Communication) Scholar

We know the facts: women get cited less than men*. Men who publish with women experience a similar citational bias. Research across the…

Mar 8, 2019

Mar 8, 2019

Nikki Usher

Nikki Usher

Associate Prof at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Studies news, politics, technology, and power with a humanistic social science take.

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