In the news

Interviews and Quotations

• Oct. 2026Reasons to Be Cheerful (Elizabeth Hewitt), “Want the News to Unite People? Let Them Report It.” The Depolarization Project series. Quoted; features research on newspaper closures and split-ticket voting and the Desert Sun local opinion-page experiment.
• Sept. 2026USA Today, “Trump wants FCC to go after this TV host. What happens now.” Quoted.
• June 2026The Contrarian, “The Crucial Point Missing From Primary Coverage.” Quoted.
• May 2026Iowa Public Radio, Talk of Iowa, “Media echo chambers create competing realities.” Guest.
• Mar. 2026Spirit & Sword, “The politicization of the news media.” Quoted.
• Feb. 2026Bloomberg Opinion (David M. Drucker), “All these new independents are making politics more partisan,” syndicated in the Miami Herald. Quoted.
• Dec. 2024ABC News Australia, “Rupert Murdoch had a succession plan for his media empire. What happens now a court’s rejected it?” Quoted.
• Dec. 2024Wall Street Journal, “MSNBC and CNN Fight to Dig Out of a Postelection Ratings Hole.” Quoted.
• Aug. 2024Bloomberg News (via BNN Bloomberg), “While ‘Pod Save America’ Tries to Unite Democrats, Its Staff Rebels.” Quoted.
• June 2024The Hill, “Ramaswamy’s new fight is with BuzzFeed.” Quoted.
• Dec. 2023PBS NewsHour, “America at a Crossroads with Judy Woodruff.” Interviewed on local news decline and civic health.
• Aug. 2023PBS NewsHour, “How the Loss of Local Newspapers Fueled Political Divisions in the U.S.” Interviewed.
• Sept. 2016KPCC/LAist AirTalk (NPR affiliate), “Mobile news consumers likely to be less informed.” Guest.

Coverage of Research

• 2026Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative. Research on local news and polarization cited.
• Oct. 2025CBS News Sunday Morning, “Charles M. Blow on the crisis facing local newspapers.” Cites Darr, Hitt, and Dunaway (2018).
• 2018–2021Research on newspaper closures, nationalized news, and polarization (Darr, Hitt, and Dunaway) covered by The New York Times/Associated Press, Axios, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, Nieman Lab, Journalist’s Resource, Bloomberg Opinion, GBH, American Press Institute, Washingtonian, Texas Standard, and others.
• 2016–2020Research on mobile news attention covered by Nieman Lab, Inverse, PsyPost, Journalism Research News, Free Press Journal, Irish Independent, Editor & Publisher, and the NewsLab.

Writing for general audiences

1. Dunaway, J.L. and Soroka, S.N. (2019). “Smartphone-size screens make it harder to pay attention to and understand news stories.” LSE Impact Blog, August 23, 2019.
2. Darr, J.P., Hitt, M.P., and Dunaway, J.L. (2019). “Survey shows Desert Sun readers approve of local-news-only editorial page in July.” Desert Sun, August 16, 2019.
3. Hitt, M.P., Darr, J.P., and Dunaway, J.L. (2019). “Why Losing Our Newspapers Is Breaking Our Politics.” Scientific American, March 26, 2019.
4. Darr, J.P., Hitt, M.P., and Dunaway, J.L. (2019). “When newspapers close, voters become more partisan.” The Conversation, February 11, 2019.
5. Dunaway, J.L. (2018). “Doris A. Graber’s Contributions to Political Communication.” Political Communication 35(3): 506–507.
6. Dunaway, J.L. (2016). “Mobile vs. Computer: Implications for News Audiences and Outlets.” Discussion Paper D-103. Cambridge: Shorenstein Center, August 2016.
7. Dunaway, J.L. (2015). “Why Hillary Clinton is Smart to Play Up her Gender.” Observer, July 2015.

Recent invited talks

• Oct. 2026“Historical Thinking and Civic Education” workshop, Alliance for Civics in the Academy and American Historical Association, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Presented on George Gallup’s “Government and the Sampling Referendum” (1938).
• June 2026Keynote, “Citizen Perceptions, Public Opinion, and Democratic Discontent,” Conference on the Crisis of Democracy and the Future of Democratic Governance, Basque Country Democracy Week, Bilbao, Spain.
• May 2026“Local Newspapers and Down-Ballot Political Competition,” Political Behavior Workshop, CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, Paris.
• May 2026John Breaux Symposium, “America at 250,” Reilly Center, LSU Manship School of Mass Communication, Baton Rouge.
• May 2026“Local News and Political Competition,” Conference on American Political Institutions in a Changing Media Environment, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Mar. 2026Pizza & Public Affairs series, Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and PAR Louisiana, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
• June 2025“Media and Democracy,” Institute for Humane Studies Symposium on the Future of Liberalism, Arlington, VA.
• May 2025“Losing Local News and Trustworthy Information,” SNF Ithaca x iMEdD Media & Democracy Summit, University of Delaware.
• Oct. 2024“News Access and Political Accountability,” Democracy Speaker Series, University of New Mexico.
• Oct. 2024“News Access and Political Accountability,” Local News and the Future of Democracy, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• Sept. 2024“Nationalized News Increases Polarization and Weakens Democratic Norms,” Andrew Carnegie Fellows Convening, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• May 2024“Causes and Consequences of Declining Local News,” American Politics Workshop, University of Maryland.
• Apr. 2024“Changing News Environments: Effects on Engagement and Democratic Health,” International Meeting of the Political Communication Research Group (GRCP), Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, QC.