Using details from historical newspaper accounts and letters, seismologists have learned more about Haiti's 1860 Jour de Pâques (Easter Sunday) earthquake sequence, and how it might have impacted the country's most recent ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 12, 2022
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The United States continues to lose newspapers at a rate of two per week, further dividing the nation into wealthier, faster growing communities with access to local news, and struggling areas without.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2022
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A new Charitable Journalism Project report—Local News Deserts in the UK—examines the effects of the collapse of local news through the eyes of people in seven places across Britain.
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2022
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Uncovering the past of historically under-represented communities sometimes means having to do a little digging, through newspapers, archives and even the ground.
Archaeology
May 16, 2022
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A new study from the Media, Inequality and Change Center (MIC) examines how large-scale activism and heightened public discourse around systemic racism and police brutality influenced local reporting on policing in 2020. ...
Social Sciences
Feb 3, 2022
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In recent decades, people in the UK have watched climate change shift from being an abstract threat discussed on the news to an increasingly common presence in everyday life. As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, floods ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Secondary exposure to hate crime can influence negative perceptions of ethnic minorities and harm social relations in neighborhoods, new research from Monash University has found.
Social Sciences
Jun 10, 2021
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If you're confused about opinion journalism and what it is, you're not alone. Many Americans are. But even so, the editorials, opinion columns and letters to the editor that fill the op-ed pages could help bridge political ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2021
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A major new storm was brewing in the Bay of Bengal off India's east coast on Thursday, forecasters warned just days after the biggest cyclone to hit the west of the country in decades left at least 120 people confirmed dead.
Environment
May 20, 2021
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How people consume news and take actions based on what they read, hear or see, is different than how human brains process other types of information on a daily basis, according to researchers at the University of Missouri ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2021
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