dr courtney tabor

reverse frankfurt school. wonder if theyll take researchers who criticize israel or if this is only for scholars with research palatable to german institutions

doesn't bode well that "what concrete contributions have you already made to the field" is being asked in assistant professor job interviews. seems like an obvious enough question but makes it clear that ABDs prob not seriously considered. previously early career positions now more mid-career.

this new lily allen album is pretty good you guys heard about this?

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do:

DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS

Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency.

@ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why

algosoc.org/results/1-in...

idk how to explain it but cuomo threatening to move to florida is giving bobby newport threatening to move sweetums to mexico except the outcome is still good for new yorkers

the actual good people of florida dont deserve this

waited 8 months for a journal decision just for 1 out of the 2 reviews to be about a paper that wasn’t even mine 🤙

shout out to "All in all," gotta be one of my absolute least favorite transition phrases

my co-author and i going back and forth trying desperately to meet “gender balance” for our panel proposal that is almost entirely made of women

(Gerbner & Gross, 1976)

why is my code taking 1000 years to run smh

This paper was a long effort informed by so many kind and wonderful scholars, especially those affiliated with the Local News Impact Consortium and the Local Journalism Researchers' Workshop (@duke-dwc.bsky.social & UNC Hussman School) so thank you all so much :')

www.localnewsimpact.org

We also analyzed the three primary metaphors researchers use to describe their own studies: Ecologies, infrastructures, and ecosystems. These are evocative but often used interchangeably and imprecisely. The lack of clarity and conceptual slippage of these terms should be addressed by the subfield.

Heat map of the United States using different colors to show where local news census research projects have been conducted.

Through a content analysis of local news census research, we find that most studies stick to a single context (usually state), traditional media, and limited documenting. We also present this map that shows where studies have (and have not) been conducted. Most of the US lacks an ecosystem analysis.

In this study, we look at what we call "local news census" research, which attempts to map, measure, and assess the health of a geographically-bound local news system. Primarily produced through white papers and research reports, these studies give a snapshot of a locale's current news offerings.

Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States: An Assessment of Local News Census Research Research on the state of local news has grown as the crisis in local news has deepened across the United States. This paper reports an analysis of 40 studies published between 2010 and early 2025 t...

Out now in Journalism Studies!

As the crisis of local news supply has deepened in the US, local news ecosystem research has attempted to address this. In this paper, @reginalawrence.bsky.social and I conducted meta-analytical work looking at this research subfield. 🧵

doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

stopped me in my tracks seeing a linkedin bio that read “Aspiring Grad Student” 🫩

thank you curd! :)

This work is part of the INEQNEWS project at @imec-smit.bsky.social and funded by an ERC-grant. 🇪🇺

Wrapped up from our Discussion: Scholars should consider implementing this scale when analyzing news audiences, given its demonstrated functionality at identifying a previously invisible group: those who are alienated by the provision of news as they understand and experience it.

Coefficient plot from the manuscript titled "Regression Coefficients where News is Not Made for Me is an Independent Variable" with 5 plot boxes with the following titles: "(i) Total News Consumption," "(ii) News Avoidance," "(iii) Overall Current Affairs Knowledge," "(iv) Autoregressive Knowledge," and "(v) Misinformation Beliefs." There are pink lines for UK results and teal lines for Brazil results. There is a research note at the bottom of the figure.

We also find that greater feelings of alienation are associated with negative outcomes. Despite consuming more news than their counterparts, people who believe news is not made for them also selectively avoid more news, get more knowledge questions incorrect, and believe more misinformation.

Coefficient plot from the manuscript titled "Linear Regression Results with News is Not Made for Me as DV" with variables on the y-axis and coefficient estimates on the x-axis. There are pink lines for UK results and teal lines for Brazil results.

Using a panel survey in Brazil & UK, we see that people who feel the most alienated from news tend to be younger, lower SES, have lower news self-efficacy, greater interest in soft news, and have more attention problems. These findings highlight the overwhelming relentlessness of news cycles.

A screenshot of a table from the manuscript. A purple header is labeled "Item" followed by the 8-items of the scale and a research note on alternating gray and white rows.

The News is Not Made for Me scale is an 8-item scale that investigates the growing gap between news providers and audiences as well as audience inequality gaps related to news use and benefits. It gets at what we call "agnostic" features of news - such as pace, language, and access.

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New week, new school year, new publication!

In this paper, @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, & I develop a scale to measure how audiences feel alienated by the provision of news and what implications this has for inequalities. 🧵

Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

LET'S GO!!!!! she deserves it!!!!!!! 🎉

This is a canary in the coal mine. Humanities programs are highly endangered, even the departments with reputations for discipline-defining job placement are treading water. What’s tragic about the University of Chicago case is that cuts are almost certainly elective and ideological.

another season of job applications, another stack of them due on yom kippur

googled the name of one of my articles and the AI result made up a fake study that it could "likely" be about. super cool!