Columbia University: Author of Groundbreaking Local News Crisis Research Named as 2019 Welles Memorial Prize Winner
September 04, 2019
September 04, 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 -- Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism issued the following news:
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business at the Columbia Journalism School today awarded Penelope (Penny) Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, the 2019 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize, for her unparalleled and widely-cited research "The Expanding News Desert (link is external)."
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The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business at the Columbia Journalism School today awarded Penelope (Penny) Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, the 2019 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize, for her unparalleled and widely-cited research "The Expanding News Desert (link is external)."
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