AnnouncementsNorthwestern's Office of Global Marketing and Communications will offer a spring media training session April 22. |  Ever wonder what goes through a journalist’s mind when they first learn about faculty work? What elements intrigue them enough to cover it? What strikes them as “jargon-y” or too academic to reach a wide, news-consuming audience?
Register online for an informal Q&A on Zoom from 12-1:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, with Chicago Tribune journalist Darcel Rockett to talk through what makes academic work worthy of news coverage.
Remember, you can access media training tips and resources online anytime. |
| 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 (March 31-April 6*) |
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Ian Hurd discusses the history of the United Nations and what the world might be like if it didn't exist. Hurd was cited in 94 stories for a reach of 17.6 million. Top outlets include ABC Australia.
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Emily Miller and Rachel Ruderman find that COVID-19 vaccines do not lead to birth defects. They were cited in 101 stories for a reach of 5.8 million. Top outlets include Forbes, Reuters, CTV News and UPI.
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Phyllis Zee finds that even a moderate amount of light during sleep can increase problems including high blood sugar and risk for cardiovascular disease. Zee was cited in 63 stories for a reach of 1 million. Top outlets include NPR Illinois.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| Trending News | These are the trending topics in the news and on social media that we’re keeping our eyes on this week. If you have a viewpoint or expertise on any of the topics below and you’re willing to talk to reporters about them, email us at media@northwestern.edu. | We're looking for experts on the following topics | The Biden administration is debating how much the United States can or should assist an investigation into Russian atrocities in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But laws from 1999 and 2002, enacted by lawmakers wary that the court might investigate Americans, limit the government’s ability to provide support. | Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt because it offered bondholders payments in rubles, not dollars, credit ratings agency S&P has said. | China’s officials and state media are increasingly parroting Russian propaganda organs on the war in Ukraine, undercutting U.S. and European diplomatic efforts, even after the killings in Bucha. | President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as his administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes. | Researchers in recent months have announced the discovery of microplastics traveling in the bloodstream of a handful of anonymous donors and embedded deep in the lung tissue of about a dozen patients awaiting surgery. Another recent study reported finding microplastics in placentas. These discoveries have made for a dizzying series of headlines that some might find concerning, but the science remains far from settled. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Steven Lubet, The Hill "There will be many important challenges and responsibilities facing soon-to-be Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court. One of her first assignments ought to be teaching Justice Thomas a few things about judicial ethics," Steven Lubet writes in The Hill. |  From Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, The Wall Street Journal "These two traditions — Chekhov’s and Sholokhov’s, the one that appreciates the suffering of others and the one that focuses on one’s own injury and insult — form a Russian dialogue. Vladimir Putin and his followers draw their inspiration from one, but the best of the Russian spirit, and its gift to the world, belongs to the other," Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro write in The Wall Street Journal. |
| About | This weekly newsletter serves as a resource for faculty and communications staff, sharing news opportunities and highlighting faculty and University successes in traditional media. It also provides communications tools such as media training resources and announcements about upcoming sessions.
By providing these resources, we hope to help faculty show their expertise to a national and international audience as well as recognize those who are making an impact.
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