Associate Professor in Dept of Comm @UofOklahoma. Focusing on gender, political comm, & media. Proud @UWComm and UT @moodycollege alum. Find me @lmeeks.bsky.soc
Excited to announce my latest article: "The (vice) presidential pivot? Examining Kamala Harris's messaging before and after the 2022 midterms." doi.org/10.1111/psq.12885
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Anyone have any good videos of campaign folks or academics discussing campaigns use of digital media--strategies, shortfalls, etc. that could be good for an undergrad class? Everything I see is 1-2 minutes that is too high level to be useful or 50 minutes & going into the weeds.
I asked the subscriber who emailed me their frustrations to expand more on what specifically wasn’t working within social at their news organization. They said:
It’s not an accident that TikTok and Twitter accounts like @Phil_Lewis_, @Acyn, @jbouie, Under The Desk News, and @PopCrave show up on my timeline and FYP more than news organizations. That's because these accounts prioritize on-platform reach over driving site traffic.
A few days after the election I got an email from someone who works in social for a large news organization. I've included a screenshot below.
It's clear to me that legacy media needs to build a new social media playbook. Let me explain why.
Hey journalism students! The @AP is now accepting applications for its paid, four-month global news internship program. Locations this year include NYC, LA, and D.C., as well as Japan, London and Cairo. Find a list of internship roles here: careers.ap.org/go/View-All-J…
JOB ALERT: The ACLU is hiring a SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST specializing in Reproductive Freedom. This will be one of the most important communications jobs in America next year.
NY/DC — $132k/year
aclu.org/careers/apply/?job=…
I checked that I filled in the bubble correctly on my ballot about a million times this morning. It's like the election version of test anxiety. #IVoted
Excited to guest lecture today in @tjohnson1960 class on news coverage of women candidates!
Unfortunately my lecture will reveal more tricks than treats in how the news covers women. 🎃🧙♀️👻
Thanks to the RQ1 newsletter by @markcoddington & @SethCLewis for bringing this great study to my attention! It shows a big and problematic gap, as well as value misalignment, between how journalists and audiences define "good journalism." Congrats to @claumellado & @constnz!
📣 Good news 📣 Good news. Our paper “The Importance of the Human Touch in Journalism” was published in @JournPractice Based on in-depth interviews with 30 journalists and 64 audience members, we investigates what are the professional values that both groups identify as good journalism and to what extent/how do these values align.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Your daily reminder that if Harris and Walz win, Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (White Earth Ojibwe) becomes the first Native American woman governor in U.S. history.
"In raw numbers, the loss of jobs in newspapers is the single largest drop in all industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey."
niemanlab.org/2024/10/medill…
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
@hamelpolisci & @nmbauer investigate the link between gendered issue types and successful credit claiming in "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States."
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
ALT Research article entitled "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States" by Brian T. Hamel and Nichole M. Bauer.
Happy Monday! ☺️
We have a new themed collection for you, dealing with the power dynamic b/w #genders across 7 nations. Results: low representation of #women in newsrooms and news coverage women journalists face challenges.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…@Prof_Dimitrova@ViorelaDan
Happy Monday! ☺️
We have a new themed collection for you, dealing with the power dynamic b/w #genders across 7 nations. Results: low representation of #women in newsrooms and news coverage women journalists face challenges.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…@Prof_Dimitrova@ViorelaDan