Joshua P. Darr is assistant professor of political communication at the Manship School of Mass Communication and the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He received a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. His research on local news has pioneered new methods for understanding the political consequences of America’s rapidly changing media environment. In their 2021 book, Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Darr and coauthors Matthew Hitt and Johanna Dunaway studied what happened when a local newspaper dropped national opinion coverage, finding less polarization and more discussion of state and local issues in the resulting space.
His project, “Partnering with Local News to Reduce Polarization,” will partner with journalism organizations Trusting News and the American Journalism Project to assess the ways that newsrooms can earn back trust and reduce political polarization through their coverage of local and national politics.
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