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Dr. Mimi Perreault
@mediatingmimi.bsky.social
Media Professor, crisis and disaster researcher, and Mother of four.
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It is not until paragraph 19 that rhr article notes that Trumps plan is illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say
A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.
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February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Great insights on leadership in our field.
🔍 I shared some thoughts about JMCQ and how we continue to evolve with the help of our amazing associate editors, board members, authors and reviewers! Thank you!!
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Read all about where our journal is headed in 2025 and beyond in this editorial essay by EIC @profdimitrova.bsky.social.

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January 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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OMG these Los Angeles fire vignettes. "A film score composer checks his phone and finds his neighbor has sent a video. It tells the composer his three-month-old Palisades home, his two Steinways and all his sheet music are in ashes. Nothing left. Not every tragedy is on the screen."🎁
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Opinion | Apocalypse Los Angeles
Monitoring the fire nightmare and scenes from local TV news, social media, texts and calls.
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January 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Happy belated first day!
January 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Generative and constructive research roundtable today at @usouthflorida.bsky.social with some incredible scholars in Oscar Westlund @esserfrank.bsky.social @mediatingmimi.bsky.social @joshscacco.bsky.social Grace Smith and Fan Yang!
December 18, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah
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December 25, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Our US rural journalism team ( @ljlincoln.bsky.social , @mediatingmimi.bsky.social Jessica Fargen Walsh) here in Journalism Practice reflects on the intense labor of being the only person, or one of the only people, in a rural newsroom. 1/5

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“That s**t is Hard to Get Away from”: Working Alone in US Rural Journalism
While journalists across the globe report facing difficult labor conditions, US rural journalists face particularly acute conditions–often tasked with conducting many of the hardest tasks of journa...
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December 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Excited to see this piece out which looks at the work journalists undertake to manage audience hostility--through rank-and-file journalists as well as audience editors in 🇺🇸and 🇨🇦.

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Mitigating Hostility in Digital Journalism: Digital Hostility as Ossifier of Field Boundaries
The rising prevalence of white nationalism necessitates an evaluation of the tactics of journalists employ to manage digital hostility. Through the lens of Bourdieu’s field theory, the present stud...
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December 3, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Headed to @NCA to present work on Appalachian social cohesion and journalism work! #nca2024 with @acadianjprof.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:57 AM
media researchers, journalists and journalism scholars Message me for registration join!
November 10, 2024 at 2:28 PM
It’s been a week.
November 9, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Elon Musk’s X to unseal the list of shareholders involved with X Holdings Corp., giving the public an official look at the investors who aided his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform previously known as Twitter in October 2022.
Judge orders X to reveal investors in Elon Musk’s social platform
A judge ordered Elon Musk’s X to reveal its shareholders, showing who helped with his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform formerly called Twitter.
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August 22, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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Kamala Harris’s long political résumé is well known and expansive. But here are 23 things you might not know about the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
23 Lesser-Known Facts About Kamala Harris
Beyond the headlines, Ms. Harris has taken ballet, collected Converse sneakers and felt the influence of her grandfather, a diplomat.
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August 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Imane Khelif sold scrap metal to pay for her boxing training, is a UNICEF ambassador, stood up against horrific bullying, and is now an Olympic champion.
August 9, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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For those interested in ordering the book before leaving the conference this weekend, you can stop by the Peter Lang Publishing booth in the exhibit hall (4th floor)!

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August 9, 2024 at 10:28 PM
‪SA Houston, J.B., Hawthorne, J., Perreault, M.F., Park, E.H., Goldstein Hode, M., Halliwell, M.R., Turner McGowen, S.E., Davis, R., Vaid, S …‬, ‪Disasters, 201…

hooray for 1000 citations!
July 9, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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NEW #JMCQReview 🚨 In this AEJMC scholar sourcing volume @mediatingmimi.bsky.social and
@ssfrigerio.bsky.social offer broad scope and analytical depth on crisis communication in COVID-19. Read the @jmcquarterly.bsky.social review by Hilary Fussell Sisco here!
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June 18, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Overdose deaths in the U.S. declined slightly last year, the first decrease in five years, according to preliminary data released Wednesday. The news was attributable mostly to a drop in deaths from synthetic opioids, chiefly fentanyl, researchers said. nyti.ms/3QLFF1v
May 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Millions more Americans were exposed to gun violence since shootings spiked in 2020. Homicides worsened in suffering neighborhoods and spread to new places. We mapped the killings to understand the number of victims and the communities most exposed. nyti.ms/3WGmhXy
May 15, 2024 at 3:32 PM
New pub: "Neutrality and impartiality in Midwestern U.S. newspapers: community-oriented newspaper journalists reporting of environmental water problems in agricultural and ranching states" Free EPrints:
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Neutrality and impartiality in Midwestern U.S. newspapers: community-oriented newspaper journalists reporting of environmental water problems in agricultural and ranching states
U.S. journalists embedded in rural and agricultural communities could adversely affect the health of residents if they avoid alerting and engaging their readers – farmers, ranchers, and community m...
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May 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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It's happened!
@mediatingmimi.bsky.social's and my
AEJMC-Peter Lang Scholarsourcing volume is now published! A huge thank you to all of our contributors for their amazing work. I am so very excited for everyone to read your work!

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Peter Lang Verlag - Crisis Communication Case Studies on COVID-19
This edited volume employs a case study approach to examine communication surrounding the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The text is ...
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April 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Several fans of the Kansas City Chiefs who attended a bitterly cold playoff game on Jan. 13 suffered frostbite that required amputations, according to Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
Frostbitten Kansas City Fans Needed Amputations After Frigid Game
A Missouri hospital said the amputations involved mostly fingers and toes after a game in January when temperatures were below zero.
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March 9, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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From an interview with Jonathan M. Katz @katzonearth.bsky.social about discovering Senator Katie Britt's attempt to mislead the nation— when the rest of the press missed it. By @mariabustillos.bsky.social

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March 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Analysis by Glenn Kessler: The freshman senator decried a case of sexual bondage that took place in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration.
Analysis | Katie Britt’s false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden
The freshman senator decried a case of sexual bondage that took place in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration.
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March 9, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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The Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation into Boeing after a panel on one of the company’s planes blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January, a person familiar with the matter said. The airline said it was cooperating with the inquiry.
U.S. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Boeing
The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2024 at 11:29 PM