Liz Hallgren

“We cannot live in fear. AAUP and our partners will not cower in silence. We will stand with and for higher education writ large. We will stand for democracy.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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Read this, and then make sure to read "News Inside" from @themarshallproject.org, too!

📚📖 my newest article, entitled “truth-making, slavery and advertising in anglo-american newspapering” is now available from the journal of alternative and community media! @asc.upenn.edu
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The symbiotic relationship between Volodymyr Zelensky and Western news: Authenticity and performance in Ukraine’s fight against Russia - Liz Hallgren, 2025 A close reading of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s self-produced social media content alongside Western news outlets’ profiles of Zelensky from the fir...

New by @lizhallgren.bsky.social - The symbiotic relationship between Volodymyr Zelensky and Western news: Authenticity and performance in Ukraine’s fight against Russia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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‪One more day to secure your spot! Tomorrow we talk news ownership & presidential endorsements with @sulliview.bsky.social, Matt Brown @apnews.com,
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“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.”

Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here:

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Trump Berates Zelensky, Who Leaves Without Signing Ukraine Minerals Deal: Live Updates

TLDR: Journalism knows the world through its genres of storytelling. And Trump’s performance today was perfect fodder for a news environment that loves a drama. In this case, what gets foregrounded is Trump's strongman politics, and what gets lost is Ukraine and its fight for sovereignty.

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At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.

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Colleges are under pressure from White House over diversity (DEI) but no big school has bent the shameful knee of obeying in advance harder or faster than Trump and Musk's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania

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New paper by doctoral student @sarareinis.bsky.social and alum @corrinalaughlin.bsky.social (Ph.D. '18) in New Media & Society!

New Research Explores How Volodymyr Zelensky’s Public Persona Shaped Early Narratives of the Russia-Ukraine War

New research from Annenberg doctoral candidate @lizhallgren.bsky.social analyzes Western media’s fascination with Volodymyr Zelensky in the early months of the Russia-Ukraine war.

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‘In the United States, there is no king’: AAUP sues Trump over attacks on DEI The lawsuit alleges that President Donald Trump's orders overstep his authority, use overly vague language and intend to chill speech he opposes.

“The elimination of DEI programs & initiatives at public academic institutions are a threat to the democratic purposes of higher education as a public good.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

The symbiotic relationship between Volodymyr Zelensky and Western news: Authenticity and performance in Ukraine’s fight against Russia - Liz Hallgren, 2025 A close reading of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s self-produced social media content alongside Western news outlets’ profiles of Zelensky from the fir...

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New Research Explores How Volodymyr Zelensky’s Public Persona Shaped Early Narratives of the Russia-Ukraine War

Thanks so much to @asc.upenn.edu for this feature about my latest article - out now in @mwcjournal.bsky.social!

In the latest #ASCmediarisk podcast, steering committee member Liz Hallgren speaks with Chamsy Sarkis @SMARTNewsAgency, a recently-closed Syrian media activism & journalism org, and the major challenges facing grassroots media under authoritarianism. https://bit.ly/39SUxsg

In the latest #ASCmediarisk podcast, doctoral fellow Liz Hallgren sits down with @dashaorlova, @seekyivcom & @yevhenfedchenko to discuss the pivotal role of media – both in Ukraine & abroad – in the making and breaking of Ukraine’s war effort. Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Y98Vlh

Screenshot of the abstract of "The symbiotic relationship between Volodymyr Zelensky and Western news: Authenticity and performance in Ukraine's fight against Russia" - a paper by Liz Hallgren in Media, War & Conflict - A close reading of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's self-produced social media content alongside Western news outlets' profiles of Zelensky from the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 illuminates a symbiotic relationship of drama-making that is mutually beneficial for Zelensky's military and the West's journalistic interests. Performing as a scrappy underdog turned brilliant military mind, Zelensky provides the Western press with an authentic protagonist figure who makes ideal fodder for a Western news style steeped in drama-making and a natural fit for the individualized storytelling core to the genre of the profile piece. While genre is an aesthetic categorizing tool, it is also a signal of the sociohistorical conditions of texts' production and circulation. Thus, taken as products of their moment, the profile pieces and their interplay with Zelensky's short form, seemingly grassroots social media videos are revealing of the value system underpinning journalism in the West, and the society it reflects.

🚨 New pub alert! 🚨

Doctoral candidate Liz Hallgren writes about the relationship between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s self-produced social media content and U.S. media's obsession with the “profile piece” genre:

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The image shows a professional headshot of Liz Hallgren, positioned to the left on a red background.The text next to the headshot reads: "In today’s deeply divided information environment, can journalistic storytelling help us reach consensus?" In the top right corner, there is the Center for Media at Risk logo.

Our first #CriticalQuestion of 2025 comes from @lizhallgren.bsky.social. An expert in the cultural work of journalism, Liz’s dissertation explores the interplay between mainstream journalism and platform-driven cultural production. You can read Liz's work here: bit.ly/3WgeIpM @asc.upenn.edu