Stephanie Edgerly

May 28, 2024 | poynter.org | Stephanie Edgerly |Yu Xu |Tim Franklin

This article was originally published on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website and is republished here with permission. This text was adapted from the introduction of our report on how Chicago-area residents consume local news. Download a full PDF version of the report. The financial pressures on journalism are plain to see in the digital age as the print newspaper industry shrinks, reporting jobs disappear, and online competitors struggle to develop footholds.

May 28, 2024 | localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu | Stephanie Edgerly |Yu Xu |Tim Franklin |Mark Caro

This text was adapted from the introduction of our report on how Chicago-area residents consume local news. Download a full PDF version of the report. The financial pressures on journalism are plain to see in the digital age as the print newspaper industry shrinks, reporting jobs disappear, and online competitors struggle to develop footholds. A news transformation is underway, with many winners and losers to be determined.

May 15, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Ruth Palmer |Stephanie Edgerly

AbstractWhat journalists believe about the growing phenomenon of news avoidance will affect the way they address it. In this paper we use an iterative, mixed-methods approach to analyze responses to an open-ended survey question which asked US journalists why they believe people consume little to no news. Our data analysis consisted of 3-phases: an inductive close reading to detect initial patterns, a quantification of patterns through a word frequency analysis, and a final close reading.

Dec 21, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Stephanie Edgerly

ABSTRACTThe study explores the experience of news avoidance among two groups—those who frequently consume news and those who do not. I focus the work of news avoidance, by asking: in today’s media environment, when is news avoidance easy and when is it difficult? Data for this study comes from 45 qualitative interviews conducted with US adults during the fall of 2020. Interviewees were selected based on their prior levels of either low or high news consumption.