{"id":71,"date":"2021-08-24T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/?p=71"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:09:39","slug":"nitrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/nitrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying Nitrate News Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For years, rural Nebraska communities have faced expensive water treatment overhauls due to groundwater contaminated with nitrates, primarily from fertilizer runoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Fargen Walsh, assistant professor of journalism, sought to better understand Nebraska\u2019s news coverage of this important topic. She teamed with East Tennessee State University to analyze articles published in Nebraska newspapers over nearly four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers found 151 news stories containing the words \u201cnitrate\u201d or \u201cnitrates\u201d and \u201cwater.\u201d Just four articles were substantive coverage of nitrate contamination by bylined reporters. Most merely mentioned nitrates in a broader context, such as from covering a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s definitely room for more comprehensive coverage of this issue,\u201d Fargen Walsh said. One likely reason for the lack of coverage is far fewer journalists working in Nebraska, a national trend that\u2019s hamstrung the profession in recent decades, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fargen Walsh is exploring ways to increase coverage, and the team is expanding its study to look at coverage of other water issues in the Midwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, rural Nebraska communities have faced expensive water treatment overhauls due to groundwater contaminated with nitrates, primarily from fertilizer runoff. Jessica Fargen Walsh, assistant professor of journalism, sought to better understand Nebraska\u2019s news coverage of this important topic. She teamed with East Tennessee State University to analyze articles published in Nebraska newspapers over nearly… Continue reading Studying Nitrate News Coverage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,107],"tags":[91,90,89,81,92],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-challenges","category-science-and-technology-literacy-for-society","tag-jessica-fargen-walsh","tag-nebraska-news-coverage","tag-rural-issues","tag-science-and-technology-literacy-for-society","tag-water-issues","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}