Daniel Riffe News Today

Research explores how local TV news affects public perceptions of pandemic protocols, the rise of national coverage on local TV news, and changes in how local TV journalists do their jobs.

Our old models of journalistic impact need to change Plus: How newsrooms “pressured from the top” cover their corporate bosses, studies of the “Serial effect” in podcasting, and Facebook’s role as an infrastructure for local political information. Jan. 7, 2021, 8:30 a.m. Editor’s note: Longtime Nieman Lab readers know the bylines of Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. Mark wrote the weekly This Week in Review column for us from 2010 to 2014; Seth’s written for us off and on since 201...

Mental health metaphors being increasingly mixed up in rap music, study reveals ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 14:44 IST North Carolina [US], December 12 (ANI): A study has recently revealed that the increase in mental health messages from rap artists could shape the conversations for their younger listeners who are at a higher risk of experiencing issues related to mental health. The study published in JAMA Pediatrics and conducted at the University of North ...