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Nikki Usher

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Prof @uofsandiego fellow @openmarkets past @smpagwu @uofillinois. Author of News for the Rich, White, and Blue; SO many typos; they/them 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈
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How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)

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By Nik Usher, Nikki Usher
| Nieman Lab Verified
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.
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How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)

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By Nik Usher, Neel Dhanesha Verified, Joshua Benton Verified, Sarah Scire Verified, Nikki Usher
| buff.ly
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.
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Journalists explain legislative procedure

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By Nikki Usher
| Nieman Lab Verified
This will be the year journalism finally explains arcane legislative rules to the public — for national, state, and local government. Most people find talk of clotures, filibusters, committee votes, bill reconciliation, the legislative calendar, and beyond absolutely boring. If civic-affairs news is the broccoli of American journalism, then coverage of legislative procedure is the unsalted lima bean.
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