Your colleagues in the newsCheck out the top-reaching stories of academic impact in traditional media. Metrics draw from English-language print, broadcast and online global media outlets. | Top stories (Oct. 19-25) |
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Janice Eberly shares insight on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's assessment of pandemic-era stimulus and how this aggressive stance could dictate future monetary policy. Eberly was cited in 58 stories for a reach of 21.9 million. Top outlets include Bloomberg.
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Several faculty, including Shmulik Nili, Elizabeth Hurd, Jessica Winegar and Danielle Gilbert discuss the complex history and broad impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They were mentioned in 97 stories for a reach of 5 million. Top outlets include MarketWatch, Bloomberg, The Hill, Vox and the Associated Press.
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Researchers including Dieter Isheim and David Seidman find the moon is 4.46 billion years old — 40 million years older than researchers previously believed. Using Northwestern’s atom-probe tomography facility, the team retested samples of lunar dust brought back by the final Apollo mission in 1972. Isheim and Seidman were cited in 120 stories for a reach of 4.8 million. Top outlets include The Independent, CNN and the New York Post.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| In the Spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern work and research. |  From CNBC Weinberg’s Stephen C. Nelson, Andrew Roberts and Daniel Krcmaric find that over 11% of the world’s 2,000 billionaires have run for office or become politicians. The researchers found that the concentration of massive wealth in the hands of a tiny elite has understandably caused many observers to worry that the “super-rich have super-sized political influence.” |  From CNN A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that food insecurity among families with children rose significantly last year after falling markedly in 2021. School of Education and Social Policy’s Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach tells CNN food is one of the few places that families can cut back when reducing their rent or mortgage payment is not an option. |  From Chicago Tribune Travel at O'Hare remains sluggish with the rebound of the pandemic as the Chicago Department of Aviation data shows that the number of passengers passing through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at O’Hare during the first seven months of 2023 remained at about 86% of pre-pandemic volumes. Airlines also scheduled nearly 14% less passenger space on flights out of O’Hare in the past year than they did in 2019, according to data from aviation firm Cirium. McCormick’s Hani Mahmassani tells the Chicago Tribune that as airlines face labor shortages, they are becoming increasingly strategic in their focus. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Storer H. Rowley, Chicago Tribune “In the Mideast conflict, stalemate creates a vacuum, and violence always fills the gap. The U.S. should stand with Israel but also for a free Palestine. The two are not mutually exclusive. Only a political decision by both sides to create a path to peace, as impossible as that seems right now, can bring an end to persistent war. Until that happens, Israelis and Palestinians remain at risk. Peace is their only hope,” Medill’s Storer H. Rowley writes in the Chicago Tribune. |
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