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US media coverage of new science less likely to mention researchers with African and East Asian names

  • Written by Hao Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Social Science, Northwestern University
US media coverage of new science less likely to mention researchers with African and East Asian namesOnce their research comes out, who will be quoted in the news coverage?gorodenkoff/iStock via Getty Images Plus

When one Chinese national recently petitioned the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become a permanent resident, he thought his chances were pretty good. As an accomplished biologist, he figured that news articles in top media...

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