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"Just as some people place limits on their use of social media, accessing it only on specific devices or during particular times of day, setting boundaries can make time spent with news feel more productive and less draining."—Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Fascinating case of local news meets astroturf lobbying campaign. Feels like this sort of thing may become increasingly common…

Great discussion of interviewing from kellymcb: “a skilled interviewer wants the audience to walk away remembering what the subject said, not how the questions were asked. Journalists who seek to be remembered for cleverness… will inevitably resort to performative behavior.”

The decision to call this thing the “Habermas Machine” is going to be seriously triggering to a large number of academics…

Thanks to Eduardo Suárez for writing up our conversation the other day about news avoidance and the US election. Hard to believe 8 years have passed since I started studying the topic as a postdoc at the Reuters Institute…

"Being immersed in a community of people who talk about news, value it, and help make sense of it can make it go down easier."—Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen buff.ly/4dnEqOv @benjamintoff Ruth Palmer Rasmus Kleis Nielsen #InformYourVote #NewsAvoidance

Some readers seem disconcerted by a reassuring article with my byline. I'm usually the guy who finds a cloud around any silver lining. But I've done the reporting and I'm convinced that Trump, if he loses, will fail to overthrow this election. time.com/7096453/electi…

As someone who has spent a lot of time studying the erosion of the public’s trust in news, I’d like to suggest to the The Washington Post’s billionaire owner that he rethink his strategy of dressing up his editorial interference as a (sudden) matter of principle. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

This is ridiculous. The public has lots of info needs beyond Trump & national politics. They ignore that coverage because they think it’s irrelevant to their lives. You can disagree (I do!) but MANY feel that way about politics. Writing them off as hopeless is the problem.

The great Emily Van Duyn wrote a whole book about this phenomenon after Trump got elected in 2016… global.oup.com/academic/produ…

The 2024 elections may be almost over 🙏 but fear not Minneapolitans, the 2025 elections are just starting to heat up...

Re-reading an article I wrote right after the 2020 election and I had forgotten just how eerily reminiscent this week has been. This part especially... electionanalysis.ws/us/president20…

Not sure why I haven't seen more made of this but if exit polls are right, Trump did WORSE w/ white voters (57-41) vs. Biden (58-41). All the movement was w/ non-white voters whose Democratic support fell 7 points & voted at lower rates. Electorate was 4 points MORE WHITE overall

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Congrats to Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Nielsen whose book, AVOIDING THE NEWS received the 2025 International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award! bit.ly/49sXnyE International Communication Association Columbia University Press #ICA25 #ICA2025