Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Journalism
Associate Professor, Institute of Communications Research
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Usher, N. (2014). Making News at The New York Times. (The New Media World). University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/nmw.12848274.0001.001
Usher, N. (2016). Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code. University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040511.001.0001
Recent Publications
Usher, N. (2020). News cartography and epistemic authority in the era of big data: Journalists as map-makers, map-users, and map-subjects. New Media and Society, 22(2), 247-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819856909
Usher, N., & Ng, Y. M. M. (2020). Sharing Knowledge and “Microbubbles”: Epistemic Communities and Insularity in US Political Journalism. Social Media and Society, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120926639
Usher, N. (2020). The NYT in Trump’s America: A Failure for Liberals, A Champion for Liberalism. Political Communication, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1777686
Usher, N. (2019). "Funnel Time” in the Heartland: Shifting Temporalities and Changing Materialities at The Omaha World-Herald. International Journal of Communication, 13.
Usher, N. (2019). Journalism’s biggest challenge? Journalists. Journalism, 20(1), 140-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918809278