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Jessica M. Fishman

Jessica M. Fishman, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and Annenberg School for Communication, where she studies behavioral and social science, including mass media effects.

Dead Bodies, Nationality, and the “Newsworthy” Image

Dead Bodies, Nationality, and the “Newsworthy” Image

In “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead,” being published November 21 by NYU Press, social scientist Jessica M. Fishman probes a double standard in…
October 4, 2017