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INNsights

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.

6 min readMar 22, 2024

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

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The reasonability of misinformation

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

5 min readNov 16, 2020

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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…

4 min readJun 30, 2020

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

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

4 min readApr 29, 2020

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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…

4 min readFeb 17, 2020

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Notes on a hometown media census

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Future of Journalism-Spring 2019

Case Study: Local News in Champaign-Urbana

14 min readJan 19, 2020

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Future of Journalism-Spring 2019

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#SMPAGWU, Summer Edition

Professor: Nikki Usher, Ph.D.

13 min readMay 20, 2019

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#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…

6 min readApr 10, 2019

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#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…

9 min readMar 27, 2019

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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…

13 min readMar 8, 2019

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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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