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SJMC Weekly Announcements

Week of July 15–19 2024

Kudos

Professor Mike Wagner spoke to multiple news outlets during the RNC

Mike had a busy week speaking to multiple news outlets about the Republican National Convention, He spoke to Live Now, Al Jazeera, Channel 3 in Madison, NBC 10 in Philadelphia, the National Journal, WISCT-TV, CBS58 in Milwaukee and the Atlantic. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your expertise, Mike!

Professor Mike Wagner appears on WPR's Wisconsin Today

In addition to the media work mentioned above, Mike appeared on the WPR program Wisconsin Today to talk about a new paper he has with Mark Copelovich in political science about how news coverage greatly affects people's opinions about the economy, even more so than their actual family's financial condition and the actual state of the economy. Congratulations, Mike!

Professor Mike Wagner on a panel at ABA's Democracy Task Force

Mike gave a talk and participated on a panel at the American Bar Association's Democracy Task Force in Madison this week. Congratulations, Mike!

Alum Tamia Fowlkes (JBA'22) wins WNA's Excellence-in-Features Journalism Award

Tamia won first place in a feature portfolio category of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's Excellence in Features journalism awards for her coverage of a local property management company that wrongly threatened a 98-year-old with eviction for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Professor Hernando Rojas interviewed by Telemundo

Hernando was interviewed by Telemundo on the Republican National Convention and the current electoral context. Watch the full interview.
 

Publications

Professors Mike Wagner and Dhavan Shah publish new article in Public Opinion Quarterly

Mike, Dhavan, PhD students Yiming Wang, Yuanliang Shan, Yibing Sun, Xiaoya Jiang and Heysung Lee, and PhD alums Sang Jung Kim and Porismita Borah recently published their article, "Slant, Extremity, and Diversity: How the Shape of News Use Explains Electoral Judgments and Confidence," in Public Opinion Quarterly. Their paper examines individuals’ partisan slant, partisan extremity, and overall diversity of news media use to understand how people interact with the contemporary news ecology. Read the full article.
 

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