Anthony Nadler | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Anthony Nadler

Anthony Nadler is an associate professor of media and communication studies at Ursinus College and author of Making the News Popular.

Progressive media at a crossroads

“This coming year will see major growth in online progressive media. What’s harder to predict is which communities will see themselves represented in this media. Which communities will hear this media speaking to their experiences and frustrations?”

We’ll see partisan media more clearly

“As partisan media becomes more central to politics, we will need to think about it with more nuance, seeing it as more than a menacing rival to professional journalism.”

Confronting media gerrymandering

“If news organizations want to reach popular and heterogeneous audiences, they have to think in terms of building diverse coalitions, not a mass audience.”

April 19, 2022

Conservatives’ mistrust of media is rooted in the feeling journalists want to ostracize them

“Our interviewees view mainstream news outlets as part of a group of liberal institutions dedicated to making conservatives into pariahs. The misinformation often at the heart of conservative responses to Covid-19 is a symptom, rather than a cause, of this distrust.”

The coming backlash to journalism’s nichification

“As with advertising, the nichification of journalism doesn’t simply cater to existing differences in news consumers’ interests. It reinforces and magnifies such differences.”

Journalism struggles to find a new model of legitimacy

“There’s no going back to a model of journalism that leans into bothsidesism to secure loyalties across the partisan spectrum.”

Clash of Clans: Election Edition

“The overarching stories journalism tells aren’t just descriptive. Like any popular mythology, the reoccurring elements in journalists’ stories help craft the very categories of identity that people use to comprehend themselves and others.”

December 7, 2018

3 ways Facebook and other social media companies could clean up their acts — if they wanted to

“These moves may hurt the firms’ finances, but they would also demonstrate serious and lasting commitment to limiting their platforms’ usefulness in political manipulation campaigns.”