Bri's writings

Books and research on political reporting, religion and politics, and the survival of local television — written for practitioners as much as for the field.

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LSE USAPP blog, with Valerie Martinez-Ebers 2026 Reporting US Politics: The Local TV Perspective
Routledge 2025 Manifesting Symbolic Representation Through Collaborative Policymaking
Policy Studies Journal, with Jack Mewhirter and Danielle McLaughlin 2024 Assessing the Efficacy of Radio Public Service Announcements: Results From Three Field Experiments
Electronic News, with Donald P. Green 2019 Bad Impressions: How Journalists as "Storytellers" Diminish Public Confidence in Media
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, with Jeffrey Layne Blevins and Alexis Straka 2022 Government Eyewitness: Considering New Approaches to Political Coverage Through Local TV's Greatest Strengths
Journalism & Communication Monographs, with Costas Panagopoulos and Elisa Raffa 2022 Field Experimental Designs for the Study of Media Effects
Political Communication, with Donald P. Green and Peter M. Aronow 2014 Bringing People Together: Improving Intergroup Relations via Group Identity Cues
Urban Affairs Review, with Valerie Martinez-Ebers and Regina Branton 2021 Successful and Less Successful Interventions: Stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan
International Studies Perspectives, with David Romano and Robert Phelps 2015 Electoral Crisis Communications: Combatting Disinformation & the Contest for Electoral Legitimacy
American Politics Research, with Gregory Winger, Jelena Vićić and Richard Harknett 2023 Beyond Surveillance: The Effects of Issue Ad Vividness and Anxiety on Information Use
American Politics Research, with Aaron Kruse 2016 Job Satisfaction and Social Media Use: Cognitive Reflection and Journalists' Utilization in Egypt and the United States
International Journal of Communication, with Rasha El-Ibiary 2022 Click to Count: The Effects of Nonpartisan Cue Endorsements in Selecting Political Information
Journal of Political Marketing, with Jelena Vićić 2021 God Save This ‘Broken’ Land: The Efficacy of Closed-Circuit Voter Targeting in a U.K. Election
Politics and Religion, with Paul A. Djupe and Angelia R. Wilson 2013 Coverage Competence via Collaboration: Overcoming Political Journalism Challenges in Local Television
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, with Charles Maulden and Sean Hughes 2022 Evaluating Resistance toward Muslim American Political Integration
Politics and Religion, with Nazita Lajevardi and Melissa R. Michelson 2020 Full list of books and articles
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