Media Highlights

Los Angeles Times
Op-Ed: Trump’s war on Voice of America is all about him — as usual
April 22, 2020

The Los Angeles Times featured an op-ed co-written by Geoffrey Cowan on President Trump's recent criticism of the Voice of America.

Style Weekly
Henrico Citizen halts print edition
April 21, 2020

Style Weekly in Richmond, Virginia, quoted Christina Bellantoni on how the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis will take a toll on small newspapers.

KCRW-FM's 'Greater L.A.'
As hunger for news goes up, revenue loss crushes local media
April 21, 2020

KCRW-FM's Greater L.A. featured an interview with Gabriel Kahn on the importance of local news organizations to their communities.

CBS Los Angeles
Landlord-tenant disputes In L.A. triple amid coronavirus pandemic
April 21, 2020

CBS Los Angeles cited research from Crosstown that showed an increase in police responses to landlord-tenant disputes.

Los Angeles Daily News
Remote learning exposes racial and economic divide in LA County, say USC researchers
April 20, 2020

The Los Angeles Daily News featured research led by Hernan Galperin on the digital divide among school-aged children in Los Angeles. The study was also featured in LAist and Patch and noted in the Los Angeles Times.

The Conversation
How can the houseless fight the coronavirus? A community organization partners with academics to create a grassroots hand-washing infrastructure
April 9, 2020

Francois Bar and two doctoral students wrote about how they collaborated with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) to distribute low-cost hand-washing stations on Skid Row in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Newsweek
Is Tucker Carlson the most powerful person in media?
April 9, 2020

Newsweek quoted Christina Bellantoni about Fox News host Tucker Carlson's commentary on the COVID-19 crisis.

The Guardian
Wisconsin decided to allow people to vote this week. People will die as a result.
April 8, 2020

In an opinion column for the Guardian, Sandy Tolan criticized the conservative state supreme court in his native Wisconsin for ordering voters to the polls during the COVID-19 pandemic.

South China Morning Post
TikTok, a Chinese soft-power time bomb in your living room?
April 6, 2020

The South China Morning Post quoted Morten Bay on how the popularity of TikTok doesn't necessarily translate into geopolitical influence for China.

Los Angeles Times
How USC students turned Zoom into a video game platform for coronavirus life
April 4, 2020

The Los Angeles Times cited the research of Henry Jenkins in an article about USC students developing games for Zoom during COVID-19 restrictions.

The New York Times
Seeing abortion laws from a teenager’s point of view
April 3, 2020

The New York Times cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the number of movies directed by women in 2019.

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