News Media

The content of “tweets,” the concise nuggets of information that make up a Twitter feed, can include breaking news from the Middle East, information on the latest Pew Study — or what your friend ate for breakfast.  Studies have assessed the value of a tweet based on its number of retweets or whether it prompted users to unfollow an account; however, these studies could not capture a reader’s level of interest in the tweets themselves.

On February 24, 2015, Meredith Artley, editor-in-chief of CNN Digital, spoke to a full house at the Shorenstein Center. Based in Atlanta, Artley leads the CNN’s digital content creation worldwide, and also manages the programming of CNN.com and the network’s other websites.

Written by Kimberly Meltzer, Georgetown University

Public policy issues such as taxation, health care and the deficit are enormously complex, and political organizations compete to define the “correct” positions on issues. While it is often assumed that citizens take their cues from political party leaders, little research has been done on these dynamics of influence.