“The Night Watchman,” Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been named the One Book One NU selection for 2024-25 📚

All incoming first-year and transfer students will receive a copy of the book, alongside a variety of University-wide programming. bit.ly/4aqZZ08

Congratulations to Ruth Palmer (Ruth Palmer) for being named the 2023 Reviewer of the Year for Journalism Studies ! Thank you for all your behind-the-scenes work helping the journal and its authors.

Following in the recent footsteps of Jennifer Richeson, I’m honored to deliver the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern Northwestern Medill Distinguished Public Policy Lecture today in Evanston.

Is news avoidance hard work? Stephanie Edgerly interviewed frequent and infrequent news users about avoidance in “Avoiding News is Hard Work, or is it? A Closer Look at the Work of News Avoidance among Frequent and Infrequent Consumers of News”,

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Are you a student passionate about social sciences and research? Join NORC's nine-week summer program! This paid internship offers invaluable hands-on experience in survey research, data analysis, and methodology.

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📣We are hiring a post-doctoral research fellow in digital news.

They will work to advance our understanding of how journalism and news audiences are changing in different contexts considering the rise of digital media.

💻Apply by 27 Nov
🔗Details here:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Do you do data journalism? Do you want to do it and teach it Northwestern? Apply here to be faculty Northwestern Medill: careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hr857prd_e…

How many news audience scholars can you fit into a room? 😅 Lots of food for thought from Chris Peters, Josephine Lehaff, Kim Schrøder, Julie Vulpius, Ike Picone, Matt Carlson, Ruth Palmer & Stephanie Edgerly #FoJ2023

ONLINE FIRST! Authors Dr. Emily Vraga + Stephanie Edgerly examine how users assess “news-ness” -- the degree to which something is considered news -- when encountering headlines featuring an age group that more closely resembles one’s own identity. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

As the new director of Northwestern Medill's State of Local News Project, Sarah Stonbely will oversee its nationally cited research on the growing spread of local news deserts and the emergence of new models to address the crisis.
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2023/08/…