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. (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
Usher, N., & Kammer, A. (2019). News Startups. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.827
Usher, N. (2019). Putting “Place” in the Center of Journalism Research: A Way Forward to Understand Challenges to Trust and Knowledge in News. Journalism and Communication Monographs, 21(2), 84-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1522637919848362
Usher, N. (2019). What is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys. In J. Gray, & L. Bounegru (Eds.), The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (2 ed.). Amsterdam University Press.