Martin, Christopher R. (2020), What Makes Iowa Newspapers Resilient?<\/a><\/p>\n This study investigates why some dailies, weeklies, and news organizations in Iowa are more resilient than others, particularly in a time of financial distress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The findings are based on interviews with editors, publishers, and general managers of eight newspapers and digital publications in Iowa. The report also relies on data from the Iowa Newspaper Association. The study finds that 10 dimensions contribute most to resiliency: local ownership, centrality of journalism to the business, nonprofit status, nonprofit funding support, diversified business, commitment to community, the health of the local economy, little\/no reduction of newsroom staff, historic reputation and civic institution status, and the lack of competing local media. The study considers additional factors that may help struggling newspapers, including employee stock ownership plan structures to maintain local ownership, and postal subsidies to reduce expenses for small newspapers that use the postal service almost exclusively for distribution.<\/p>\n This paper is made possible by a generous grant from the Knight Foundation; the Center for Journalism & Liberty, a project of the Open Markets Institute, has been a part of the Knight Research Network since August 2019. This paper was edited by Michael Bluhm, Open Markets\u2019 managing editor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dreier, Peter and Martin, Christopher R., “\u201cJob Killers\u201din the News: Allegations without Verification” (2012).\u00a0Faculty Publications<\/em>. 1.<\/a> A comprehensive study analyzes the frequency of the \u201cjob killer\u201d term in four mainstream news media since 1984, how the phrase was used, by whom, and\u2014most importantly\u2014 whether the allegations of something being a \u201cjob killer\u201d were verified by reporters in their stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dreier, Peter and Martin, Christopher R., “Manipulating the Public Agenda: Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong” (2009). Faculty Publications<\/em>. 2.<\/a> This study, which received no outside funding from any organization, analyzed the complete 2007\u20102008 coverage of ACORN by 15 major news media organizations, and the narrative frames of their 647 stories during that period. The news media analyzed include the four the highest circulation national newspapers\u2014USA Today<\/em>,\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, and the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u2014and an analysis of the transcripts of reports from leading broadcast news organizations: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio (NPR), and\u00a0NewsHour with Jim Lehrer<\/em>\u00a0(PBS). We also analyzed stories from three local newspapers representing cities in which ACORN has a long\u2010time presence: the\u00a0Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em>,\u00a0Minneapolis Star\u2010Tribune<\/em>, and\u00a0Pittsburgh Post\u2010Gazette<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n White Papers Martin, Christopher R. (2020), What Makes Iowa Newspapers Resilient? This study investigates why some dailies, weeklies, and news organizations in Iowa are more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/martinc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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