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The year journalists abandon the press conference
The year journalists abandon the press conference “Beat journalism needs to de-locate itself from a dependency on the old, reliable places where news could be expected to happen.” -he-year-journalists-abandon-the-press-conference 2026 will be the year when journalists finally realize that being in the room is notwhere news happens. Sure, à la Hamilton the musical, lots of back-room deals happen in quiet, private spaces of power — but journalists generally aren’t in those rooms.
How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)
With some luck, unbridled opportunism, and the right mix of underlying political conditions, an extremist politician can draw enough attention to get a few days of nonstop coverage from mainstream news media — and catapult themselves out of obscurity. How does this happen? My new book, Amplifying Extremism: Small Town Politicians, Media Storms, and American Journalism (free for a limited time here), written with Jessica C. Hagman, tries to understand this process.
How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)
With some luck, unbridled opportunism, and the right mix of underlying political conditions, an extremist politician can draw enough attention to get a few days of nonstop coverage from mainstream news media — and catapult themselves out of obscurity. How does this happen? My new book, Amplifying Extremism: Small Town Politicians, Media Storms, and American Journalism (free for a limited time here), written with Jessica C. Hagman, tries to understand this process.
U.S. federal data deletion can prompt reporters to think more critically about data
While the distortion of government data isn’t new, the Trump administration has taken this to a new level, as theWashington Post aptly chronicles: disappearing data about climate, sexual orientation and gender, natural hazards, public safety, and health. This moment of journalistic outcry over government data deletion can be a transformative one. It urges critical analysis about who’s left out of datasets.
Generative AI and Journalism: Hype, The Always Already New, and Directions for Scholarly Imagination
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News for the Rich, White, and Blue
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