March 14, 2023
An overall decline in television viewership can be attributed to new technologies such as streaming services, but Black Entertainment Television has been feeling the decline more pointedly after legislation from the 1990s, UC's Jeffrey Blevins, a professor of journalism, tells The New York Times.
December 6, 2022
University of Cincinnati chemists, geologists and art historians are collaborating to help area art museums answer questions about masterpieces and detect fakes — and teaching students about their methods.
February 15, 2023
What you post on social media can be in conflict with your employers standards, says UC social media expert Jeffrey Blevins. More and more often people are getting dinged, or worse, for posts that put their employers in a bad light. Blevins suggests a social media review/edit of content and more thought put into posts.
July 25, 2023
UC's Jeffrey Blevins featured as an expert in an NPR article on Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to "X". Blevins, who holds faculty positions in both the Department of Journalism and School of Public and International Affairs, is a leading scholar in U.S. telecommunication law and policy, and critical political economy theory and is the co-author of “Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks.”
August 24, 2023
WVXU interview with UC's Jeffrey Blevins and other experts on the topic of "pink-slime" journalism (media outlets pretending to be something that they are not). In the interview, experts provide tips on identifying and avoiding these outlets. One example is "The Buckeye Journal" which had Cincinnatian's thinking it was a community paper, when it is actually a partisan funded organization.
May 5, 2023
Postdoctoral researchers often get little useful feedback about ways to improve their job applications for faculty positions. So a University of Cincinnati anthropologist set up a pilot program that invited postdoctoral researchers to review each others’ application documents.
July 10, 2023
Radhika Bhargava pursues global research as a National Geographic Explorer following multiple study abroad experiences at the University of Cincinnati.
June 22, 2023
Abortion care has increased in some states and declined in others, due to the revision of laws stemming from the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v Wade. Abortion access expert Danielle Bessett was a guest speaker on Cincinnati Edition to discuss trends in abortion care and specific cases that are testing the decision.
June 2, 2023
Littisha Bates is a featured guest on WVXU's Cincinnati Edition to discuss the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. Bates is UC's associate dean for inclusive excellence and community partnerships.
June 30, 2023
UC journalism expert Jeffrey Blevins speaks to the Fox News shuffle of hosts after the Tucker Carlson departure. Carlson's time slot replacement is Jesse Watters, who Blevins feels has a less biting style than his predecessor.