Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of Washington. Co-Director of Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.
Seattle, WA
Joined January 2008
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Urgent analysis from @mj_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/journali… via @ConversationUS
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Here's a new open access article, with coauthor @fhanusch, in which we conceptualize embeddedness as an essential dimension of journalism. academic.oup.com/ct/article/…
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It's been a bad couple of weeks for media. In THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT: DIFFICULT CHOICES IN A DECLINING PROFESSION, @mj_powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is still a worthy pursuit. bit.ly/44c1wUr @ColumbiaUP
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"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 @martechev
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Why Would Anyone Still Want to Be a Journalist? Matthew Powers (@mj_powers) and Sandra Vera-Zambrano answer this question and discuss their new book, THE JOURNALIST'S PREDICAMENT, w/ It's All Journalism (@AllJournalism). bit.ly/420IiRx @ColumbiaUP
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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 @ColumbiaUP
Timely report on burnout among journalists by @by_ethompson and @KateChedraoui of @CISLMUNC cislm.org/research/burnout-r…
Why would anyone still want to be a journalist? The pay is low. Career prospects are uncertain. Prestige has diminished.
Sandra Vera-Zambrano and I tackle this question in our new book, The Journalist’s Predicament. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-jo…
Based on a decade of research in France and the US, we argue that journalism offers a magnified view of a problem confronting many socially important occupations.
Nursing, teaching, caretaking – all struggle to recruit and retain individuals amidst growing commercialism.
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Tracked over several years, @mj_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).
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📢 Thrilled to see this online, the crown jewel of my MA thesis last year. I interviewed journalists from several countries in East Africa to better understand how they perceive and engage with #peacejournalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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📣 Happy to share this @journstudies publication, the product of multiple pandemic *years* of reading/thinking/writing about #peacejournalism.
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Last month @kristyhess @sdp and @mj_powers joined @TowCenter 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/week…
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Happening today @ 4pm!
Join Sameer Padania (@sdp) Matthew Powers @mj_powers), Kristy Hess + @damianradcliffe in a discussion on media policy in Europe and Australia. Are there transferable lessons to sustain local journalism in the USA?
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