What makes for robust local news provision? Looking at the structural correlates of local news coverage for an entire U.S. state, and mapping local news using a new method Cover image via Canva: mdegrood via Getty Images
Executive summary
The findings below are simplified for the purpose of clarity; please see the full paper for definitions and variable operationalization.
This research is part of a multi-phase, multi-year effort to understand local news provision ― in detail yet at scale. The state of New Jersey acts as both laboratory and pilot for testing and implementing a new method for evaluating local journalism; namely, rather than mapping by where an outlet’s newsroom is based, news provision is mapped by coverage area, where a news outlet is counted in each municipality it says it covers (note that coverage area is self-reported in this phase of the project). News provision is then correlated to various structural characteri
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As Trump Leaves Office, Duke Experts Warn of White Supremacists Lasting Threat
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In response to a coup attempt on behalf of Donald Trump, Duke University experts have participated in a series of virtual discussions about the threats of white supremacy, threat of insurrection, and domestic terrorism.
âAnytime you have a mob willing to overpower and injure people to get inside the Capitol to overwhelm and harm Congressional representatives, American democracy has a problem,â said Duke historian Adriane Lentz-Smith, who participated in the January 13 discussion entitled âInsurrection, Policing and Democracy.â
Noting reports of ongoing investigations to determine if members of Congressâalong with retired and active police and military officersâmay have had a hand in the violence âis incredibly worrying,â she added.
T. Greg Doucetteâs Crusade Against Hypocrisy, Police Violence, And Big Government
T. Greg Doucette in front of the Durham courthouse
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It was five days after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, and T. Greg Doucette was mad.Â
Doucette, a criminal defense and small business attorney in Durham, was angry with the way police were treating protesters: beating them, pepper-spraying them, and, in one case, even trampling them with a horse. And so, around noon on May 30, Doucette did what he often does when he wants to gripe: he tweeted, creating a thread of 10 videos showing instances of police brutality toward protesters.Â
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