Archive - RQ1

Can solutions journalism work for local newsrooms?

Plus: Finding the strongest motivations for paying for news, how news orgs can help journalists' mental health, and why partisan-based news consumption…

Dec 20 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

October 2024

What audiences really want: For journalists to connect with them as people

Plus: How newsrooms are using generative AI, what makes news seem authentic on social media, and how to bridge the divide between academics and…

Oct 28 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

August 2024

Do legacy news media help or hurt in the fight against election misinformation?

Plus: One way local newspapers covered the pandemic well, how rational thinking can encourage misinformation, and what a Muslim journalistic value…

Aug 12 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

June 2024

How YouTube's recommendations pull you away from news

Also: News participation is declining, online and offline; making personal phone calls could help with digital-subscriber churn; and partly automated…

Jun 10 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

April 2024

Why are politicians so negative? (Hint: it's a media problem)

Also: Surprising attitudes about gender and credibility on the beat; how Trump drives outsized mainstream media attention to alternative media; and…

Apr 29 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

March 2024

Avoiding the news isn't the same as not consuming it

Plus: What investment ownership has done to local news, the credibility of photos on social media vs. news sites, and Republicans in Congress share far…

Mar 25 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

February 2024

How an ethic of care can heal the harms of journalism

Plus: What local news audiences really value, defining 'precarious' journalistic work, and what journalists say good newsroom leadership is

Feb 8 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

December 2023

Is your Instagram feed ‘news’? Depends on how you feel.

Plus: How AI exacerbates the news industry's reliance on Big Tech, how Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter led to 'strategic disconnection,' and why…

Dec 21, 2023 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

November 2023

Navigating news when couples disagree politically

Plus: Silent corrections to stories, how viral videos draw attention to right-wing news, and journalists' (somewhat) like-minded Twitter networks

Nov 13, 2023 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

October 2023

The news will not find you on TikTok

Plus: The 'labor' of avoiding news, a study of disagreements between journalists and their bosses about objectivity, and the effects of Trump's…

Oct 11, 2023 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

September 2023

Do people learn more about politics on shopping sites than news sites?

Plus: The catalyzing effect of attacks on journalists, how journalists describe their target audiences, and new evidence of local news nonprofits…

Sep 5, 2023 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

July 2023

What women political candidates think of their local media coverage

Plus: Newsroom sexual harassment and journalists' job satisfaction, journalists' skills wishlist, and paying for public media

Jul 17, 2023 •

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

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