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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
imageOnce 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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