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 (Jan. 5-12, 2023) |
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Michael Mazzeo discusses the business and brand impact of Southwest Airlines’ cancellation of thousands of flights in late December. Mazzeo was cited in 352 stories for a reach of 12.7 million. Top outlets include Fortune, the Associated Press and CBS News.
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Emiliano Monroy-Rios comments on plans to build a railway across the Yucatan Peninsula that have raised concerns among wildlife and environmental activists. Monroy-Rios was cited in 79 stories for a reach of 9.3 million. Top outlets include Reuters, NBC News, ABC News and ABC Australia.
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Dr. Rod Passman and Dr. Robert Bonow discuss Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, who experienced cardiac arrest during a Jan. 2 game. They were cited in 101 stories for a reach of 8.8 million. Top outlets include NPR, CBS News and The Independent.
*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 CNET A team of astronomers led by Weinberg’s Chih-Chun “Dino” Hsu reveals its discovery of a new and intriguing star system during the annual conference of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Hsu tells CNET about the two ultracool dwarf stars that complete a revolution around one another faster than any low-mass binary stellar system ever observed. |  From Forbes Feinberg’s Catherine Gao, working with University of Chicago researchers, finds that scientific research abstracts generated by ChatGPT fooled scientists into thinking they were real reports nearly one-third of the time. Researchers instructed ChatGPT to generate fake research abstracts based on 10 real ones published in medical journals and challenged human researchers to detect which were real and which were generated by artificial intelligence. Gao tells Forbes the fakes were so good, reviewers were fooled 32% of the time. |  From WGN-TV Title 42 enables border officers, in times of public health emergencies, to swiftly eject immigrants at authorized ports of entry. Weinberg’s Jackie Stevens spoke with WGN-TV about the confusion many people are experiencing as President Joe Biden moves to end enforcement of Title 42 — an effort currently being challenged in the courts. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Ima Toure-Tillery, Fast Company “We are not always good at taking the steps necessary to protect ourselves from diseases, even when we know we should and even when we know what the steps are. That’s human nature. The trick is to turn our humanness from a liability to an asset by putting a face or name to common diseases, which can motivate us to better protect ourselves and our communities,” Kellogg’s Ima Toure-Tillery writes in Fast Company. |  From Alex Kotlowitz, The Washington Post “The greatest threat to our nation may be the unrelenting, devastating gun violence that has no equal anywhere else in the developed world. It destroys any sense of fellowship, even with our neighbors,” Medill’s Alex Kotlowitz writes in The Washington Post. |  From Judith T. Moskowitz, Time magazine “Simply ignoring or denying stress or suppressing your negative emotions and pretending everything is just fine will not lead to enduring happiness. In most cases, negative emotions are, surprisingly, useful — they provide important signals about our environment and can guide us to an appropriate response,” Feinberg’s Judith T. Moskowitz writes in Time magazine. |
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