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Mar 22, 2024

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.

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

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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Nov 16, 2020

The reasonability of misinformation

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

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Journalism and Liberty

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Jun 30, 2020

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…

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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Apr 29, 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

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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Feb 17, 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…

Notes on a hometown media census

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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Jan 19, 2020

Future of Journalism-Spring 2019

Case Study: Local News in Champaign-Urbana

Future of Journalism-Spring 2019

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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May 20, 2019

#SMPAGWU, Summer Edition

Professor: Nikki Usher, Ph.D.

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Apr 10, 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…

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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Mar 27, 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…

Nik (Nikki) Usher

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Mar 8, 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…

Nik (Nikki) Usher

Nik (Nikki) Usher

Associate Prof at the University of San Diego. Studies news, politics, technology, and power with a humanistic social science take.

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