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Academic Research
‘He was a visionary’: Journalism scholars reflect on legacy of Max McCombs at ISOJ research breakfast

The late Max McCombs, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. pioneered the internationally-recognized theory on the agenda-setting role of media.

Ibero-American Colloquium
Displaced journalists must adapt to new culture, language, climate, and even a different color of the sky, says Luz Mely Reyes of Venezuela

“You have to go” is the phrase that defines the exile of Venezuelan journalists and the title of the most recent investigation by Luz Mely Reyes, co-founder of digital media outlet Efecto Cocuyo. Her new study reveals how censorship and persecution have forced many to leave their country and reinvent themselves abroad.

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ISOJ
Google artificial intelligence tools NotebookLM, Pinpoint offer creative techniques to increase efficiency in the newsroom

These two tools work like research assistants to help journalists search through documents and come away with summaries, and also aid in analyzing data more easily.

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ISOJ
Second Trump administration weaponizes chaos and overwhelms media, say journalists at ISOJ

Political journalists warn that Trump in his second term shows an unprecedented disregard for democratic norms. With no internal dissent, his loyal allies enable his efforts to distort reality and sideline critical media.