Your Colleagues in the NewsCheck 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 (Feb. 3-9*) |
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Weinberg's Stefan Cristian Ionescu discusses the role of Romania in the Holocaust following the release of Maksim Goldenshteyn's book, "So They Remember." Ionescu was cited in 280 stories for a reach of 9.1 million. Top mentions include the Associated Press, ABC News, The Independent and U.S. News.
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As many school districts and municipalities begin lifting COVID-19 mask mandates, Feinberg's Mercedes Carnethon, Robert Murphy and Tina Tan discuss the health implications of the new guidance. They were cited in 161 stories for a reach of 7.5 million. Top mentions include The New York Times, NPR, ABC News and two stories in the Chicago Tribune.
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Following news that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drug test before the Olympics, Feinberg's Sadiya Khan explains how the drug trimetazidine can enhance an athlete's performance. Khan was cited in 50 stories for a reach of 4.9 million. Top outlets include Reuters, ABC News, U.S. News and the International Business Times.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| In the spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern faculty work and research. |  From Bloomberg A belief in hot streaks, or the hot hand, is widespread among gamblers, stock pickers and basketball players, among others. It’s a hunch that success leads to more success — that sometimes you’re just on a roll.
But that’s just hoops. Crunching data from the arts, culture and science is more interesting, because patterns you find there might extend to all fields of endeavor. And patterns there are, according to research by Kellogg's Dashun Wang. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Mikala Stokes, Chicago Tribune "The 1893 World’s Fair offers us an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of Black history in the late 19th century before the inauguration of the first Negro History Week (the predecessor to Black History Month). In the midst of what is often called the nadir of American race relations — the intensification of white supremacist violence and segregation — African Americans used Black history as a tool of social justice and reconciliation," writes Mikala Stokes in the Chicago Tribune. |  From Sidney H. Weissman, Crain's Chicago Business Social isolation, the economic downturn, gun ownership and more: Behavioral scientist Dr. Sidney H. Weissman and criminal justice expert Arthur Lurigio examine the factors behind America's worst year for homicides since 1960. |  From Tim Calkins, Crain's Chicago Business "This year, Chicago-based companies will have a relatively small presence: WeatherTech is one of the few local companies planning to run a spot, though local advertising agencies are involved in many of the creative efforts. Over the years, however, Chicago companies have created some of the most memorable Super Bowl ads," Tim Calkins writes in Crain's Chicago Business. |  From Monica Prasad and Jeffrey A. Winters, The Hill "Socioeconomic diversity at elite universities matters because the elite universities matter: They feed the nation’s political and economic elite, and keeping them reserved for the upper classes fragments America into networks segregated by privilege, increasingly polarized and increasingly mistrustful of each other. Every community college student who makes it into an elite institution knits together those networks," Monica Prasad and Jeffrey A. Winters write in The Hill. |  From Steven Lubet, The Hill "It is impossible to know what U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was thinking when he decided to bar the press from his recent speech to the Florida chapters of the conservative Federalist Society, but it is safe to say that the appearance of political neutrality was not his main objective. ... Gorsuch has his critics and defenders, but there is no conclusive answer to whether he crossed an ethics line because the Supreme Court has never adopted a code of ethics," Steven Lubet writes in The Hill. |
| Media metrics | The following metrics reflect Northwestern's performance in 75 priority media outlets, chosen based on their reach and influence with key academic audiences. | Priority Media Outlet Performance Metrics | Coverage over time: |  |
| Northwestern topic breakdown: |  | | *Topic areas are assigned based on keyword search and reflect the subject of the article, not the department or unit of the individual cited. Some articles may be counted under multiple topic areas. |
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