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 (Aug. 31-Sept. 6) |
- Weinberg post doctoral fellow Yitong Huang develops a mathematical model to predict how we recover from jet lag and finds that having consistent large breakfasts at the destination could help travelers overcome jet lag. Huang was cited in 130 stories for a reach of 7.7 million. Top outlets include The Washington Post, BBC, Newsweek, CBS News, the Daily Mail, the New York Post and The Telegraph.
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Weinberg’s Kathleen Belew discusses the rise of far-right extremism and white supremacist violence. Those extremist movements, top U.S. law enforcement officials say, pose the biggest domestic terrorism threat today. Belew was cited in 50 stories for a reach of 1.2 million. Top outlets include PBS News.
- Medill’s Penelope Abernathy discusses the causes and consequences of the decline of local news coverage with PBS Newhour for a series titled “America at a Crossroads.” The segment extensively cites research by the Local News Initiative that finds since 2005, the U.S. has lost more than one-fourth of its newspapers and is on track to lose a third by 2025. Abernathy was cited in 35 stories for a reach of 2.7 million. Top outlets include NPR and Voice of America.
*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 work and research. |  From The Washington Post As the number of young people with food allergies has increased in the past few decades, researchers are describing the surge as a "food allergy epidemic.” Northwestern juniors Kethan Bajaj and Julia Auerbach organized College Advocates for Food Allergy Awareness and Education, a group that aims to raise national awareness and support students who have food allergies and other food-related conditions. The students, along with Feinberg’s Dr. Ruchi Gupta, speaks to The Washington Post about why college is a particularly vulnerable time for students with food allergies. |  From U.S. News & World Report A recent lawsuit alleges that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution bars Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office because of his behavior on Jan. 6, 2021. Northwestern Law’s Steven Calabresi tells U.S News & World Report that as president, Trump had the legal duty to ensure the law was faithfully executed by taking action to dispel the assault on the capitol. |  From Poynter Famous YouTuber and influencer Patrick Humphrey’s channel has rapidly increased its audience by publishing false and misleading videos that stoke fear of a wide-scale disaster. School of Communication’s Erik Nisbet tells Poynter Humphrey’s tactics are successful in spreading misinformation because people are evolutionarily programmed to respond to fear and anxiety. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Georgy Egorov, The Hill “It’s true: The Electoral College has elected the ‘loser’ of the popular vote twice in the last 25 years. Surely, this is not ideal. However, is this level of imperfection in U.S. democracy worth accepting for the confidence that the country’s elections will be legitimate?” Kellogg's Georgy Egorov writes in The Hill. |  From Storer H. Rowley, Chicago Tribune “Buffett was amazed at the volume of songs and albums he released over the decades, and he was always grateful for his fans. He was willing to sing the songs they most loved and wanted to hear at his annual tours. People came out to have a good time, and he recognized that. In return, he gave great performances that brought them to their feet,” Medill’s Storer H. Rowley writes in the Chicago Tribune. |  From Andrew Koppelman, The Hill “Gender identity raises a cluster of distinctive issues: locker rooms, bathrooms, health insurance, military service, prisons and homeless shelters. We oughtn’t mush them all together. But there is a nasty common thread. In today’s politics, even valid reasons for sometimes disregarding a gender-identity claim tend to morph into hateful efforts to eradicate transgender people altogether,” Northwestern Law’s Andrew Koppelman writes in The Hill. |
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