Here's a new open access article, with coauthor Folker Hanusch, in which we conceptualize embeddedness as an essential dimension of journalism. academic.oup.com/ct/article/doi…

It's been a bad couple of weeks for media. In THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT: DIFFICULT CHOICES IN A DECLINING PROFESSION, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is still a worthy pursuit. bit.ly/44c1wUr Columbia Univ Press

'Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy' offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies. Co-authored by Martin Echeverría, co-chair of #IAMCR 's Pol Comm Section Martin Echeverria

Why Would Anyone Still Want to Be a Journalist? Matthew Powers (Matthew Powers) and Sandra Vera-Zambrano answer this question and discuss their new book, THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT, w/ It's All Journalism (@AllJournalism). bit.ly/420IiRx Columbia Univ Press

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Adrienne Russell on the publication of her important new book THE MEDIATED CLIMATE: HOW JOURNALISTS, BIG TECH, & ACTIVISTS ARE VYING FOR OUR FUTURE. bit.ly/3K1vYJ1 Columbia Univ Press

Timely report on burnout among journalists by Elizabeth Thompson 👩🏼‍💻 and @KateChedraoui of Center for Local Media cislm.org/research/burno…

Looking forward to this timely talk!

WE ARE HIRING an Assistant Teaching Professor in Communication in Strategic, Crisis, and Public-Interest Communication at UW Communication Priority deadline is May 12th. Here is the link: apply.interfolio.com/104060 Please share! Feel free to get in touch with me with any questions!

Tracked over several years, Matthew Powers finds, journalists’ professional trajectories are undermined by multiple social inequalities (gender, race, etc.), with high levels of professional inertia (staying in the same job) and exit (leaving journalism).
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢 Thrilled to see this online, the crown jewel of my MA thesis last year. I interviewed journalists from several countries in East Africa to better understand how they perceive and engage with #peacejournalism . journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📣 Happy to share this Journalism Studies publication, the product of multiple pandemic *years* of reading/thinking/writing about #peacejournalism .
tandfonline.com/eprint/W5MDJNP…

Last month kristy hess Sameer Padania and Matthew Powers joined Tow Center for a discussion about media policy in Australia, France and UK, and efforts in those markets to support local journalism (+ what the US can learn from them). Nick Mathews has this handy recap: mailchi.mp/d2b2c1c218d5/w…

Happening today @ 4pm!

Join Sameer Padania (Sameer Padania) Matthew Powers Matthew Powers), Kristy Hess + Damian Radcliffe in a discussion on media policy in Europe and Australia. Are there transferable lessons to sustain local journalism in the USA?
eventbrite.com/e/local-journa…

Bu bir kibir terörü.

The extent of outright state failure on the Turkish coast right now is stunning. People are throwing dirt on flames engulfing their homes. Begging in vein for planes to deliver air support. Livestock abandoned. One week now this has been happening.

Marmaris Turunç ve Kumlubük tepelerinde ormanda an itibari ile dumanlar görülüyor. Çok az koruyabileceğimiz doğa kaldı bölgede. Bugün artık zamanında ve gün içinde #havadanmuedahaleistiyoruz #marmarisyanıyor #turunc T.C. Tarım ve Orman Bakanlığı

Join a conversation led by UW prof Leilani Nishime with Seattle journalists and activists on anti-Asian hate in media. eventbrite.com/e/listeningtru… cc UW Comm Lead UW Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy UW Communication