And just like that, fall semester is here! Our newsroom is full today as editorial training kicks off The Red & Black. Let’s do this!

Always a pleasure to collaborate with such a badass as Kyser Lough, Ph.D.. More to come!

I mean, yeah

My Wednesday evening reading: really cool stuff here, and great use of some qualitative methods to identify cues news readers rely upon.

Disappointed but not surprised 🤐 "NewsGuard identified 37 websites that are using chatbots to rewrite news articles that first appeared in news outlets including CNN, NYT and Reuters. In all cases, none of the original news sources was credited" newsguardtech.com/misinformation…

Damn.

This is such a commendable project, and really well-built visualization.

The Lead Pod is back! Media students: listen to this show on how to get ahead in the media industry from the people who did. 🎧

🚨 NEW: We know local news is important — but who's actually consuming it? A new report by Andrea Lorenz, Jessica Mahone @jessmahone.bsky & Elizabeth Thompson 👩🏼‍💻 takes a closer look at the Americans who consume local news regularly and the mediums they prefer. cislm.org/research/who-c…

Back atcha, CNV! Fun working on this together.

It's tempting to see this entirely through the lens of US politics and American news media, but this trend mirrors Reuters Institute data showing declining interest in news and increasing news avoidance in many places around the world. From the 2022 DNR: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…

How did a college student correctly predict every legislative race in Virginia this year? And how did his team - most of them in their 20s - become the only forecasters focused on more than 7,000 state leg races? I profiled Chaz Nuttycombe and CNalysis theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n…

The upgraded version of "Mapping Inequality," the award-winning, foremost digital resource on New Deal #redlining, just dropped today: dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redli… Kudos and many thanks to Robert Nelson & LaDale Winling for the opportunity to contribute to this incredible project

Sometimes the table IS the viz. Awesome job on these, Matt Hackman.

Having Michelle Amazeen grace us with her wisdom and all-around awesomeness was the highlight of the semester!

New pub in Public Relations Review, "Misinformation or Hard to Tell? An Eye-Tracking Study to Investigate the Effects of Food Crisis Misinformation on Social Media” with Louise Îng-ka Hsu ⁦Di Mu⁩ Bart Wojdynski Matt Binford, Ph.D.! Click link for free copy! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

ok now i know why he doesn't want to debate kamala harris

The best part of working at UGA Grady College is getting to work with fantastic graduate students like Brittany Shivers! This paper, based on her master’s thesis, was awarded the Top Faculty Paper in the AEJMC Broadcast & Mobile Journalism Division division this year.

Here’s the NPR story about Arlington National Cemetery: npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-…