
Matthew Powers
@mj_powers
Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of Washington. Co-Director of Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.
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https://com.uw.edu/people/faculty/matthew-powers/ 28-01-2008 15:27:47
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Happening today @ 4pm! Join Sameer Padania (Sameer Padania) Matthew Powers Matthew Powers), Kristy Hess + Damian Radcliffe in a discussion on media policy in Europe and Australia. Are there transferable lessons to sustain local journalism in the USA? eventbrite.com/e/local-journa…

Last month kristy hess Sameer Padania and Matthew Powers joined Tow Center for a discussion about media policy in Australia, France and UK, and efforts in those markets to support local journalism (+ what the US can learn from them). Nick Mathews has this handy recap: mailchi.mp/d2b2c1c218d5/w…

📣 Happy to share this Journalism Studies publication, the product of multiple pandemic *years* of reading/thinking/writing about #peacejournalism. tandfonline.com/eprint/W5MDJNP…


Tracked over several years, Matthew Powers finds, journalists’ professional trajectories are undermined by multiple social inequalities (gender, race, etc.), with high levels of professional inertia (staying in the same job) and exit (leaving journalism). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…



Timely report on burnout among journalists by Elizabeth Thompson 👩🏼💻 and @KateChedraoui of Center for Local Media cislm.org/research/burno…

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Adrienne Russell on the publication of her important new book THE MEDIATED CLIMATE: HOW JOURNALISTS, BIG TECH, & ACTIVISTS ARE VYING FOR OUR FUTURE. bit.ly/3K1vYJ1 Columbia University Press


"Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy" offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies. Co-authored by Martin Echeverría, co-chair of #IAMCR's Pol Comm Section Martin Echeverria


Why Would Anyone Still Want to Be a Journalist? Matthew Powers (Matthew Powers) and Sandra Vera-Zambrano answer this question and discuss their new book, THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT, w/ It's All Journalism (It's All Journalism). bit.ly/420IiRx Columbia University Press


It's been a bad couple of weeks for media. In THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT: DIFFICULT CHOICES IN A DECLINING PROFESSION, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is still a worthy pursuit. bit.ly/44c1wUr Columbia University Press

Here's a new open access article, with coauthor Folker Hanusch, in which we conceptualize embeddedness as an essential dimension of journalism. academic.oup.com/ct/article/doi…

Urgent analysis from Matthew Powers Fewer people are seeing a life in news as a worthwhile career. This reflects a broader problem-namely, the ways that relentless economic pressures are pushing people away from socially important careers.”theconversation.com/journalism-has… via The Conversation U.S.