Research Output per year
Research Output
2019
"Funnel Time” in the Heartland: Shifting Temporalities and Changing Materialities at The Omaha World-Herald
Usher, N., 2019, In : International Journal of Communication. 13Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Journalism’s biggest challenge? Journalists
Usher, N., Jan 1 2019, In : Journalism. 20, 1, p. 140-143 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
News Startups
Usher, N. & Kammer, A., Apr 26 2019, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Putting “Place” in the Center of Journalism Research: A Way Forward to Understand Challenges to Trust and Knowledge in News
Usher, N., Jun 1 2019, In : Journalism and Communication Monographs. 21, 2, p. 84-146 63 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
What is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys
Usher, N., 2019, The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice. Gray, J. & Bounegru, L. (eds.). 2 ed. Amsterdam University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Women and technology in the newsroom
Usher, N., Feb 12 2019, Journalism, Gender and Power. Carter, C., Steiner, L. & Allan, S. (eds.). Routledge, p. 18-32Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2018
Breaking news production processes in US metropolitan newspapers: Immediacy and journalistic authority
Usher, N., Jan 1 2018, In : Journalism. 19, 1, p. 21-36 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Framing in a Fractured Democracy: Impacts of Digital Technology on Ideology, Power and Cascading Network Activation
Entman, R. M. & Usher, N., Apr 1 2018, In : Journal of Communication. 68, 2, p. 298-308 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Hacks, Hackers, and the Expansive Boundaries of Journalism
Usher, N., Sep 3 2018, The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies. Eldridge, S. A. & Franklin, B. (eds.). Routledge, p. 348-359Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
How Interactivity Can Build Transparency: What Tech Can Teach Us about Rebuilding Media Trust
Usher, N., 2018, Trump and the Media. Boczkowski, P. J. & Papacharissi, Z. (eds.). The MIT Press, p. 167-174Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Re-Thinking Trust in the News: A material approach through “Objects of Journalism”
Usher, N., Mar 12 2018, In : Journalism Studies. 19, 4, p. 564-578 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The midlife crisis of the network society
Usher, N. & Carlson, M., Jan 1 2018, In : Media and Communication. 6, 4, p. 107-110 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
Twitter Makes It Worse: Political Journalists, Gendered Echo Chambers, and the Amplification of Gender Bias
Usher, N., Holcomb, J. & Littman, J., Jul 1 2018, In : International Journal of Press/Politics. 23, 3, p. 324-344 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2017
Making business news: A production analysis of The New York Times
Usher, N., Jan 1 2017, In : International Journal of Communication. 11, p. 363-382 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Appropriation/Amplification Model of Citizen Journalism: An account of structural limitations and the political economy of participatory content creation
Usher, N., Mar 16 2017, In : Journalism Practice. 11, 2-3, p. 247-265 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Venture-backed News Startups and the Field of Journalism: Challenges, changes, and consistencies
Usher, N., Oct 21 2017, In : Digital Journalism. 5, 9, p. 1116-1133 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2016
Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code
Usher, N., Nov 2016, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 272 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
News Startups as Agents of Innovation: For-profit digital news startup manifestos as metajournalistic discourse
Carlson, M. & Usher, N., Jul 3 2016, In : Digital Journalism. 4, 5, p. 563-581 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The constancy of immediacy: From printing press to digital age
Usher, N., Jun 13 2016, The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future. Cambridge University Press, p. 170-189 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Trading zones, boundary objects, and the pursuit of news innovation: A case study of journalists and programmers
Lewis, S. C. & Usher, N., Oct 1 2016, In : Convergence. 22, 5, p. 543-560 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
2015
Newsroom moves and the newspaper crisis evaluated: space, place, and cultural meaning
Usher, N., Oct 11 2015, In : Media, Culture and Society. 37, 7, p. 1005-1021 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The late great International Herald Tribune and the New York Times: Global media, space, time, print, and online coordination in a 24/7 networked world
Usher, N., Jan 25 2015, In : Journalism. 16, 1, p. 119-133 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2014
Anderson Cooper and Jodie Foster: The Glass Closet and Gay Visibility in the Media
Usher, N., Jan 1 2014, In : QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. 1, 1, p. 193-198Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Code, Collaboration, And The Future Of Journalism: A case study of the Hacks/Hackers global network
Lewis, S. C. & Usher, N., Jul 3 2014, In : Digital Journalism. 2, 3, p. 383-393 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Crowd-Funded Journalism
Jian, L. & Usher, N., Jan 1 2014, In : Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 19, 2, p. 155-170 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Making News at The New York Times
Usher, N., 2014, University of Michigan Press. 294 p. (The New Media World)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open Access
Moving the Newsroom: Post-Industrial News Spaces and Places
Usher, N., 2014, Tow Center for Digital Journalism.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Spot.us: A Case-Study of A New Business Model for News and its Implications for Journalists
Usher, N., 2014, In : Cinergie. 5, p. 139-145Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2013
Al Jazeera English online: Understanding web metrics and news production when a quantified audience is not a commodified audience
Usher, N., Jan 1 2013, In : Digital Journalism. 1, 3, p. 335-351 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Ignored, uninterested, and the blame game: How the New York Times, Marketplace, and TheStreet distanced themselves from preventing the 2007-2009 financial crisis
Usher, N., Feb 1 2013, In : Journalism. 14, 2, p. 190-207 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Marketplace public radio and news routines reconsidered: Between structures and agents
Usher, N., Aug 1 2013, In : Journalism. 14, 6, p. 807-822 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open source and journalism: Toward new frameworks for imagining news innovation
Lewis, S. C. & Usher, N., Jul 1 2013, In : Media, Culture and Society. 35, 5, p. 602-619 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2012
Going Web-First at The Christian Science Monitor: A Three-Part Study of Change
Usher, N., 2012, In : International Journal of Communication. 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
NPR Online: Public Service Communication at the Center of National Public Radio
Usher, N., Riley, P. & Porter, V., 2012, Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web. Burns, M. & Brügger, N. (eds.). Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 31-48Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Reshaping the public radio newsroom for the digital future
Usher, N., 2012, In : Radio Journal. 10, 1, p. 65-79 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Service journalism as community experience: Personal technology and personal finance at The New York Times
Usher, N., Jan 1 2012, In : Journalism Practice. 6, 1, p. 107-121 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2011
Mapping the future of news in a digital world: US and Australian perspectives
Morieson, L. & Usher, N., 2011, Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research. Araya, D., Breindl, Y. & Houghton, T. J. (eds.). Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 77-92Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Professional Journalists, Hands Off! Citizen Journalism as Civic Responsibility
Usher, N., May 2011, Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It. McChesney, R. W. & Pickard, V. (eds.). The New Press, p. 264-276Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Redefining Public Radio: Marketplace in the Digital Age
Usher, N., 2011, Making Online News: Newsroom Ethnographies in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism. Domingo, D. & Paterson, C. (eds.). Peter Lang Publishing Group, Vol. 2. p. 45-56 (Digital Formations).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2010
Goodbye to the news: How out-of-work journalists assess enduring news values and the new media landscape
Usher, N., Sep 30 2010, In : New Media and Society. 12, 6, p. 911-928 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Resurrecting the 1938 St. Louis Post-dispatch symposium on the freedom of the press: Examining its contributions and their implications for today
Usher, N., Jun 1 2010, In : Journalism Studies. 11, 3, p. 311-326 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The demise of the gay enclave, communication infrastructure theory, and the transformation of gay public space
Usher, N. & Morrison, E., Apr 14 2010, LGBT Identity and Online New Media. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 271-287 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Quest to Save Journalism: A Legal Analysis of New Models for Newspapers from Nonprofit Tax-Exempt Organizations to L3Cs
Usher, N. & Layser, M. D., 2010, In : Utah law review. 2010, 4, p. 1315-1371 57 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
“I’m Sorry, Oh, So Sorry”: Celebrity Apologies and Public Ethics
Usher, N. & Schuh, J. S., 2010, Ethics and Entertainment: Essays on Media Culture and Media Morality. Good, H. & Borden, S. L. (eds.). McFarland Publishing, p. 23-40Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2009
Interactive Visual Argument: Online News Graphics and the Iraq War
Usher, N., 2009, In : Journal of Visual Literacy. 28, 2, p. 116-126Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Recovery from disaster: How journalists at the New Orleans times-picayune understand the role of a post-katrina newspaper
Usher, N., Jan 1 2009, In : Journalism Practice. 3, 2, p. 216-232 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2008
Reviewing Fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity
Usher, N., Dec 1 2008, In : First Monday. 13, 12Research output: Contribution to journal › Article