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Professor Grant Reeher Interviewed about Senator Gillibrand’s Choice of Words
Grant Reeher, Maxwell professor, was interviewed by The Daily Star for the article Gillibrand’s salty language raises eyebrows.
Students Wade through Political Discourse Inside DC Beltway
With constant tumult in the nation’s capital, political communication inside the Washington, D.C., beltway has become a relentless churn of messaging, whether by press conference, sound bite or tweet—President Donald Trump’s preferred method. How do you wade through all the…
Professor Roy Gutterman Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
“In some ways I don’t think [the incoming Trump administration] wants to interact with the institutional press, which is a huge problem,” says Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University in New York. “Our independent press is an integral part of our democracy, it has been since the beginning of our country, and the public really needs to know what’s going on.”
Faculty and Students on Voting and the Results of the 2016 Election
Donald J. Trump won the presidency after running a combative contest with his rival Hillary Clinton. Several faculty members who have been studying the election offered their initial reactions to the surprising news.
With Election Over, Illuminating Team Looks to the Future
Faculty, staff and students from across Syracuse University gathered in Hinds Hall yesterday to spend part of election night listening to a panel discussion led by School of Information Studies (iSchool) researchers working on the Illuminating 2016 research project. Headed by…
Election Night Panel Discussion Will Examine Social Media Use by Candidates
Two faculty members at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), along with their doctoral researchers, will host a panel discussion on election night, Nov. 8. The team is part of the Illuminating 2016 project, a computational journalism project that empowers…
Q&A: Christopher Faricy on the Smooth Transition of Presidential Power
Voters who haven’t yet cast their ballots in early voting step into the voting booth in less than a week to make their voices heard. Citizens need to trust in that election system as part of the democratic process and…
‘Share of Voice’ Project Provides Glimpse Behind the Curtain of Social Media Data in Election Coverage
Newhouse School assistant professor Jennifer Grygiel, working in collaboration with the School of Information Studies, is the lead on a new project that examines the use of social media data in the coverage of the 2016 presidential election, particularly the…
Syracuse University Dialogue to Examine the Roles of Media, Law and Politics in Syrian Conflict
Accountability in the Syrian conflict will be the focus of a daylong event hosted by the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications next month.
International students find much to interest them in U.S. presidential election
The debates, the media coverage, seemingly endless campaigning. Americans have endured months of buildup to the U.S. presidential election. Two students—Chi Chen, a junior studying psychology, and Yutian Yang, a third-year Ph.D. student in chemical engineering—have watched the U.S. process,…