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
Ahn, S. J. G., Cripe, E. T., Foucault Welles, B., McGregor, S. C., Pearce, K. E., Usher, N., & Vitak, J. (2021). Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (Fuck Individual Resilience). Communication, Culture and Critique, 14(2), 301-305. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab027
Moran, R. E., & Usher, N. (2021). Objects of journalism, revised: Rethinking materiality in journalism studies through emotion, culture and ‘unexpected objects’. Journalism, 22(5), 1155-1172. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920985730
Usher, N. (2021). News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/ushe18466
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