As associate professor of communication studies, assistant director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, and director of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, Natalie Jomini Stroud works with the American Press Institute to identify and highlight important news-related scholarly findings.
These features highlight academic research that could be relevant and useful to the news industry. We also hope that this series will spark ideas among academics with an interest in researching the news.
Read the series here. Contact her with suggestions and feedback at tstroud@austin.utexas.edu.
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