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When left-leaning journalists produce right-leaning stories
Welcome to another edition of RQ1! For those who are new, we are Mark Coddington, Seth Lewis, Tamar Wilner, and Nick Mathews — four former journalists turned academics, now teaching and researching at Washington and Lee University (Mark), t...
Why people choose not to share news
Welcome to another edition of RQ1! For those who are new, we are Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis — two former journalists turned academics, now teaching and researching at Washington and Lee University (Mark) and the University of Oregon (Se...
Why right-wing authoritarians share news
Welcome to another edition of RQ1! For those who are new, we are Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis — two former journalists turned academics, now teaching and researching at Washington and Lee University (Mark) and the University of Oregon (Se...
The 11 types of relationships that journalists have with audiences
Welcome to another edition of RQ1! For those who are new, we are Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis — two former journalists turned academics, now teaching and researching at Washington and Lee University (Mark) and the University of Oregon (Se...
Are journalists projecting their own opinions onto the public?
Welcome to another edition of RQ1! For those who are new, we are Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis — two former journalists turned academics, now teaching and researching at Washington and Lee University (Mark) and the University of Oregon (Se...
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Mark Coddington, Seth Lewis, Tamar Wilner, and Nick Mathews are all former journalists and current journalism professors at Washington and Lee University, the University of Oregon, the University of Kansas, and University of Missouri, respectively.
Seth Lewis is the Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He is co-author of News After Trump (Oxford University Press) and co-founder of the Substack newsletter RQ1.
Tamar is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Kansas. Her interests include news literacy and understanding how research can better inform the practice of journalism.
Nick Mathews is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Before entering academia, he worked in newsrooms for about 20 years.
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