Washington Post – “Is election night broken? TV news stuck to old routines amid voting upheaval – and confusion followed.” By Paul Farhi
“Educating the audience [about the various counting procedures] before the election . . . would have the benefit of staving off some of the suspicion on the part of the audience” and decreased the chance for “opportunists” to claim fraud later, Duncan said. Both she and Searles were among a group of scholars who urged the news media to overhaul election-coverage practices.
New York Times – “How could I ever love Michigan State?” By Jane Coaston
I spoke with Duncan on the phone this week, and she told me that the creation of a sports fan has a number of requirements, including a specific geography, family affiliations and the sense of kinship one may get from being a fan of a team. She said that in many ways, sports fandom “forms similar to other kinds of identity, where you start associating with folks who have something in common. And then you can feel support from them. You feel that sense of winning when your team wins, or that sense of defeat when your team loses.”
Globe and Mail – “Presidential projections are indispensable, but not infallible.” By David Shribman
“A lot of people think individual journalists are making these projections,” said Megan Duncan, a Virginia Tech University expert on news credibility and digital journalism. “The anchors are good at talking, but they don’t do projections. The viewers don’t see what is happening in the back rooms. It’s a complicated decision to make, and so the networks hire the best professionals and statisticians they can.”
The most recent popular and industry press about my research:
New York Times – “How could I ever love Michigan State?” Oct. 30, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/opinion/michigan-football-rivals.html
Numb (podcast) – “News media: Trust and public opinion.” July 20, 2021. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1713880/8831896
Virginia Tech Magazine (alumni communications) – “Life Online.” Spring 2021. https://www.vtmag.vt.edu/spring21/feature-life-online.php
WTKR, Norfolk, Va. – “Role of opinion shows, social media in spreading misinformation.” Jan. 26, 2021. https://www.wtkr.com/news/role-of-opinion-shows-social-media-in-spreading-misinformation
VT News – “Efforts to rein in talk radio rhetoric overdue, according to Virginia Tech media expert.” Jan. 12, 2021. https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/unirel-talkradio.html
Washington Post – “Is election night broken? TV news stuck to old routines amid voting upheaval – and confusion followed.” Nov. 15, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/is-election-night-broken-tv-news-stuck-to-old-routines-amid-voting-upheaval–and-confusion-followed/2020/11/14/9024f248-207b-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html
Globe and Mail – “Presidential projections are indispensable, but not infallible.” Nov. 11, 2020. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-trumps-legal-challenges-call-us-election-projections-into-question/
VT News – “Trust and the media” Nov. 6, 2020. https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/11/Media_Expert.html
Charlottesville Right Now, WINA – “Journalism, politics and biases in the election.” Nov. 3, 2020. https://wina.com/podcasts/journalism-politics-biases-and-the-election/
VT News – “America’s divisions on display.” Feb. 10, 2020. https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/02/trust-in-media-expert.html
Thompson-Reuters Foundation – “ANALYSIS-Sky’s the limit: Rise of delivery drones has cities asking who owns airspace.” June 17, 2019 http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=a8ef024d-d5b4-4c5c-a7cd-f80d37b309dd
News-To-Table – “Why isn’t getting harassed motive enough?” April 22, 2019. https://medium.com/news-to-table/from-anita-hill-to-lucy-flores-94c4d6eeb2eb
VT News – “Study draws connections between sports fandom and political tribalism.” Jan. 30, 2019. https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/01/sports_fandom_study.html
Morning Consult – “How perceptions of news accuracy shift with outlet – and topic.” Aug. 16, 2018. https://morningconsult.com/2018/08/16/how-perceptions-news-accuracy-shift-with-outlet-topic/
NPPA – Drones in the news: Newsrooms need to develop drone policies. Aug. 1, 2018. https://nppa.org/news/drones-news-white-paper
Megan Ann Duncan 