Faculty Host

  • Philip Napoli, Shepley Professor of Public Policy, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Conference Agenda

Participant Bios

List of contributed research (Access the following papers here)

  • Penny Abernathy, The Expanding News Desert
  • Bill Adair, Fact-Checking the President in Real Time
  • Christopher Ali, The Death of Broadcast Localism in the US
  • Christopher Ali, Damian Radcliffe, & Rosalind Donald, The Story of American Small Market Newspapers
  • Mike Barthel, Pew Journalism, For Local News, Americans Embrace Digital but Still Want Strong Community Connection
  • Mike Barthel, Five Key Takeaways from the State of the News Media 2018
  • Jake Batsell, Nonprofit Model Development
  • Tracy Everbach, Jake Batsell, Sara Champlin, & Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, Does a More Diverse Staff Better Reflect Its Community? A Print and Digital Content Analysis of The Dallas Morning News
  • Michael Clay Carey, How Local Media Silence Influences Views of Poverty
  • Iris Chyi, Perceived Inferiority of the Online Edition
  • Iris Chyi, Print-Online Performance Report
  • Jennifer Daniels, News Media, Incarceration, and Public Administration (working paper)
  • Joshua Darr, How Campaigns Earn Local Media
  • Joshua Darr, Matthew Hitt, & Johanna Dunaway, Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior
  • Angela Ford, Kevin McFall, & Bob Dabney, Democracy Fund, African American Media Today
  • Jodi Rave, Democracy Fund, American Indian Media Today
  • Jessica Retis, Democracy Fund, Hispanic Media Today
  • Nancy Watzman, Democracy Fund, What is a News Ecosystem?
  • Johanna Dunaway, Kathleen Searles, Mingxiao Sui, & Newly Paul, News Attention in the Mobile Era
  • Johanna Dunaway & Regina Lawrence, What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News
  • Michelle Ferrier, Media Seeds developmental evaluation report
  • Michelle Ferrier, Bursting the Bubble of Rural Media Deserts
  • Peggy Holman, Media Seeds: Fresh News in an Appalachian Media Desert (submitted by Michelle Ferrier)
  • Lew Friedland, Networks in Place
  • Lew Friedland et al, Review of the Literature Regarding Critical Information needs of the American Public
  • Elizabeth Hansen, Emily Roseman, Joseph Lichterman, & Matthew Spector, Business Models for Local News: A Field Scan
  • Elizabeth Hansen & Emily Goligoski, Guide to Audience Revenue and Engagement
  • Danny Hayes & Jennifer Lawless, The Decline of Local News and Its Effects
  • Danny Hayes & Jennifer Lawless, Reinvigorating Interest in Local News
  • Danny Hayes & Jennifer Lawless, As Goes Local News, so Goes Citizen Engagement
  • Lizzy Hazeltine, Democracy Fund, NC Local News Lab FundOlivia Henry & Jesse Hardman, An Information Ecosystem Assessment of South Fresno and Surrounding Rural Communities
  • April Lindgren, What the Death of Local News Means for the Federal Election
  • April Lindgren, Brent Jolly, Cara Sabatini & Christina Wong, Good News, Bad News: A snapshot of conditions at small-market newspapers in Canada
  • Wilson Lowrey, Role of Meta-organizations in Local News Innovation (working paper)
  • Wilson Lowrey & Eunyoung Kim, Hyperlocal News Coverage: A Population Ecology Perspective
  • Jessica Mahone, Whites More Likely to Have Spoken With a Local Journalist
  • Jessica Mahone, Qun Wang, Philip Napoli, Matthew Weber, & Kathleen McCullough, Who’s Producing Local Journalism? An Analysis Across Different Outlet Types
  • Edward Malthouse, Yayu Zhou, & Bobby Calder, Democracy, Capitalism, and the News
  • Yasaman Hessary, Yayu Zhou, Bobby Calder, & Edward Malthouse, Detecting Engagement with Digital Content
  • Kathleen McCullough, Jessica Crowell, & Philip Napoli, Portrait of the Online Local News Audience
  • Lindsey Green-Barber & Eric Garcia McKinley, Engaged Journalism: Practices for Building Trust, Generating Revenue, and Fostering Civic Engagement
  • Christoph Mergerson, Legal Implications of Sexual Violence in Virtual Reality: Considerations from Three States (working paper)
  • Philip Napoli, Matthew Weber, Kathleen McCullough, & Qun Wang, Assessing Local Journalism: News Deserts, Journalism Divides, and the Determinants of the Robustness of Local News
  • Philip Napoli, Ian Dunham, & Jessica Mahone, Assessing New Media Infrastructure: A State-Level Analysis
  • Philip Napoli & Lew Friedland, US Communication Policy Research and the Integration of the Administrative and Critical Research Traditions
  • Damian Radcliffe, Local Journalism in the Pacific Northwest
  • Damian Radcliffe, How Local Journalism Can Upend the ‘Fake News’ Narrative
  • Bill Singleton, Fanning Racist Rhetoric
  • Sarah Stonbely, Assessing Satisfaction with Local News
  • Sarah Stonbely & Tara George, Health and Wealth in Local News
  • Sarah Stonbely, Layoffs in Local Newsrooms
  • Sarah Stonbely, Magda Konieczna, Jesse Holcomb, Mapping Local News Ecosystems (working paper)
  • Leah Todd, Mountain News Deserts
  • Nikki Usher & Sanghoon Kim, Philanthropy in US Journalism and the Power Geometry of Place (draft)
  • Mary Walter-Brown, NYC Local Digital News Landscape
  • Matthew Weber & Allie Kosterich, Coding the News
  • Matthew Weber & Philip Napoli, Journalism History, Web Archives, and New Methods for Understanding the Evolution of Journalism
  • Danilo Yanich, Political Ads Local TV News
  • Danilo Yanich, Duopoly Light
  • Danilo Yanich, Does Ownership Matter? Localism, Content, and the Federal Communications Commission
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