Professor: Nikki Usher
Department: Media and Public Affairs
Title: The How, What, and Where of News
Description: Work with Dr. Nikki Usher, a Faculty Fellow of UHP in Spring 2018. She is working on on “The How, What, and Where of News,” a book that will focus on the relationship between trust, authority, and the work that journalists do.
Duties: Research will involve assistance in building literature reviews, annotating/assisting with references, manuscript preparation, fact-checking, and coding. Sample tasks might involve going through field notes to check for dates, putting together a timeline of events, or preparing summaries of chapters/articles, or formatting endnotes. There will also be possible involvement in other research projects such as an in-progress study of beltway journalism and political communication. The student may be asked to do some research interviews after methods training and IRB certification. Possible for co-authorship on popular press and/or journal articles may be available depending on student’s capacity and interest (for a sample of this, see: http://www.slate.com/arti
Time commitment: 4-6 hours per week (average, perhaps paid!?)
Credit hour option*: 3
Please submit CV and weekly schedule of class/extra curriculars to Dr. Usher at nusher@gwu.edu.
*If credit is sought, all registration deadlines and requirements must be met. Students selected to be research assistants should contact Mary Rothemich at rothemich@gwu.edu whether they intend to pursue credit or not.
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