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| Your Colleagues in the News | Check out the top-reaching stories of academic impact in traditional media. Metrics draw from English-language print, broadcast and online global media outlets. | Top stories (Dec. 9-29*) |
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Feinberg's Egon Ozer discusses how COVID-19 vaccine boosters are holding up against the contagious omicron coronavirus variant. Ozer was cited in 350 stories for a reach of 11.9 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, Forbes, Fox News and ABC News.
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Northwestern Law's Deborah Tuerkheimer comments on the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. Tuerkheimer was cited in 82 stories for a reach of 10.1 million. Top outlets include Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News.
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Medill's Penelope Abernathy discusses the factors that caused news consumption to decrease in 2021, including COVID-19 fatigue and the lack of a presidential election. Abernathy was cited in 280 stories for a reach of 9.8 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, ABC News, The Independent and the New York Post.
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Feinberg's Igor Koralnik investigates the common demographic traits of patients who experience long-term COVID-19 effects. Koralnik was cited in 130 stories for a reach of 6.3 million. Top outlets include the Chicago Tribune and NPR.
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Weinberg sociology fellow Zach Sommers finds that missing white women draw significantly more news coverage than missing women or people of color. The 2016 research gained renewed attention following the death of white teen Gabby Petito. Sommers’ work was cited in 57 stories for a reach of 5.1 million. Top outlets include NBC News and CNN.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Kimberly A. Yuracko, Chronicle of Higher Education "Hurricanes are blowing over American universities—blustery winds of ideological disagreement, political distrust, and lots of anger over racial injustice and the marginalization of subordinated groups, all fueled and fed by social media. Under such intense pressure, senior administrators are making mistakes," Yuracko writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education. |  From Deborah Tuerkheimer, The New York Times "Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for recruiting young girls to serve Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual desires set a marker: Enablers are not safe from criminal prosecution. In that sense, her conviction was an important first-of-its-kind moment in the #MeToo era. But real progress still demands a reckoning with an uncomfortable truth. In the world of wealth and privilege, most enablers are beyond the reach of criminal law," Tuerkheimer writes in The New York Times. |  From Sadiya Khan, NBC News "We need to focus on the facts: Vaccines work and mandates are justified, both of which have been demonstrated by historical precedent. The only way to win this new battle is by doubling down on the protective measures that have served us well so far, despite our weariness over the ongoing pandemic," Khan writes in NBC News. |  From Stephanie Kollmann, Chicago Sun-Times "Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a lawyer, must have passed Constitutional Law – which means she has chosen to ignore our rights when they get in the way of her political myth-making. In a speech this week defending her administration’s response to violent crime, Lightfoot called for a broad, categorical halt to the pre-trial release from jail of many of her constituents. Without any doubt, that proposal is unconstitutional," Kollman writes in the Chicago Sun-Times. |  From Steven Lubet, The Hill "Whether you regard these stratospheric salaries as a cultural outrage or simply the result of an efficient market, there is one often overlooked aspect of coaching contracts that should cause alarm among administrators, fans and, above all, parents. They virtually all include so-called “incentives” that can endanger the players themselves," Lubet writes in The Hill. |  From Andrew Koppelman, The Hill "You can rarely be sure that judicial incompetence will kill people, but Federal District Judge Terry Doughty crossed that line when he issued an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s requirement that nursing home personnel be vaccinated for COVID-19. This week, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch produced something worse than incompetence," Koppelman writes in The Hill. |  From Renee Engeln, Psychology Today "It’s a saying that too many girls and young women grow up hearing: Beauty is pain. Though we often think of fashion as trivial, it’s clear that the differences between men’s and women’s fashions have implications for physical and mental well-being," Engeln writes in Psychology Today. |
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