(1) How did coverage of China change after NYT/Wapo/WSJ journalists were expelled in March 2020? Slight changes, but largely resilient — new paper with Jennifer Pan in @journal_of_communication about how news outlets remained flexible to maintain consistent coverage (link at end)

Check out this open letter that I co-signed to Meta regarding the discontinuation of CrowdTangle, a critical transparency tool. 👇

Thrilled to share our latest publication!

I received my 20 years of service (so far) Texas A&M University pin. Some highlights of the last twenty years include being called onto Kyle Field for “strengthening democracy,” JumboJen guest coach, AFS teaching award, & every day spent with awesome students and colleagues. Thanks & gig’em! 🥰

Can’t wait to visit UW Jackson School later this week and catch up with colleagues UW Communication ! Headed your way soon …

Excited to announce our ICA Preconference International Communication Association 'The Future of Computational Message Science' with Kaiping Chen Sijia Yang dr. yilang peng! Explore #ComputationalMessageScience theories and innovations with us on June 19 at Brisbane. More details at: sites.google.com/northwestern.e….

Congrats!!!

>> @Maddow: Ronna McDaniel was part of a project to reject U.S. elections. 'It didn't work to overthrow the government the last time, but as long as you can build on that first effort... you are priming the American public to not accept the results of the NEXT election, either.'

WaPo: 'A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in Newsmax' in 2019/2020, 'according to documents and representatives for the media company and the royal, in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during the Trump administration.' washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03…

The misinformation syllabus from Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) is, along with the Critical Disinformation Studies one by alice e. marwick Rachel Kuo Shanice Jones Cameron and Moira Weigel from CITAP (@citap.bsky.social), my favorites and routinely recommended. (If you have others you like/recommend, please share!)

Very excited about visiting CITAP at UNC!

Data Justice Seminar on March 4th. Join us in person or via Zoom.

Rupert Murdoch purchased the New York Post in 1976.

It announced its first profitable quarter in 2021.

pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-york-…

Their secret?

Conservative news in insulated from the vicissitudes of the market by philanthropists and businessmen who put ideological dissemination ahead of profitability.

We’re two weeks out from a symposium on the “Futures of Right-Wing Studies” I’ve been organizing in collaboration with colleagues at IPK, CITAP (@citap.bsky.social), and CRWS.

I get it: big hype for a big moment, need to deliver headlines within the quest narrative frame. And yet, 'think what we are doing.' Don't fall into the narrative trap set by that typical frame. Try the democracy frame: half the party braved the bitter cold to vote against Trump.

On the anniversary of January 6th, it's an apt time to announce Khadijah Costley White, Shannon McGregor, PhD, Rebekah Tromble, and I's new co-edited volume, Media and January 6th. A thread: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Thrilled to see this book coming out. In Chapter 18, I argued that we should stop treating right-wing media that fueled the insurrection as merely news organizations -- the fourth estate of democracy. If they are not just news org., what are they? Order a copy of the book now!

Dear colleagues: here are links to #CommunicationAndDemocraticErosion and the rise of #IlliberalPublicSpheres
researchgate.net/publication/37…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Very pleased to share this framework for understanding the role of #CommunicationInDemocraticErosion and #IlliberalPublicSpheres with Marianne Kneuer