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May 23, 2025 Paul Whiteley, _University of Essex_ Donald Trump has lost popularity in the past few months – but how much is his voting base being maintained by media support? May 2, 2025
Josh Shepperd, _University of Colorado Boulder_ The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance. April 11, 2025 Colleen
Murrell, _Dublin City University_ A legal fight over a US news organisation’s ability to report from the White House has significant parallels to a new play on Broadway. March 19, 2025
Jennifer Mercieca, _Texas A&M University_ Overwhelming people with a deluge of announcements makes it difficult to easily track and understand what is happening in the White House. March
3, 2025 Colleen Murrell, _Dublin City University_ The Washington Post has won an international reputation for its journalism. But recent changes are threatening its status as an icon.
January 3, 2025 Anita Varma, _The University of Texas at Austin_ Legacy newsrooms have lost their audiences. Could a radical transformation in how they practice journalism make the industry
relevant again? November 15, 2024 Rachel Meade, _Boston University_ How did this lifelong Democrat go full MAGA? A scholar of populism finds some answers in the ‘manosphere’ podcasts
credited with helping Trump win, such as those hosted by Theo Von and Joe Rogan. October 30, 2024 John M. Murphy, _University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign_ Americans might have to wait
for days, weeks or months to get an accurate determination of the winner of the presidency. October 17, 2024 Lea Redfern, _University of Sydney_ US presidential candidates are hitting the
podcast circuit hard. The risk to a politician is the authenticity of podcasting could just as easily work against them. September 28, 2024 Nick Hirshon, _William Paterson University_ Joan
Whitney Payson, the first female owner to buy a baseball team, won over the press in the Mets’ disastrous 1962 season by treating them as partners, not adversaries. September 9, 2024
Abhishek Ray, _George Mason University_ US news outlets perceived as politically centrist could inch rightward or leftward to attract a larger, more partisan readership − but only at the
cost of journalistic credibility. June 26, 2024 W. Joseph Campbell, _American University School of Communication_ While people now reflect on how or whether Nixon’s sweaty, haggard
appearance during the debate cost him the election, the view in 1960 was that the debate was a draw. April 26, 2024 Karrin Vasby Anderson, _Colorado State University_ and Tim Bakken, _United
States Military Academy West Point_ Courtroom drama is drawing attention to a broader subject: Donald Trump’s approach to the media. April 12, 2024 Frankie Bailey, _University at Albany,
State University of New York_ Since the ‘trial of the century,’ the lines between news and entertainment have become increasingly blurred. November 20, 2023 Michael J. Socolow, _University
of Maine_ The JFK assassination was a landmark event in TV news history. November 1, 2023 Bruce Drushel, _Miami University_ As Rupert Murdoch prepares to hand over the keys to his media
empire, what will his legacy be? October 31, 2023 Jeff South, _Virginia Commonwealth University_ With the balance of political power at stake in the Virginia legislature, voters in this key
swing state may reveal clues for the 2024 presidential election. May 4, 2023 Nolan Higdon, _California State University, East Bay_ Since the 1980s, cable news networks have focused on
hyperpartisan news coverage to attract core audiences in an increasingly fragmented media market. April 24, 2023 Jacob L. Nelson, _University of Utah_ Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox
News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative. April 11, 2023 Lars Tummers, _Utrecht University_
Instead of simply applauding nudges, journalists should critically assess when and why governments use this tool.