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WWU faculty and staff collaborate on new border research article
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WWU faculty and staff collaborate on new border research article
April 28, 2026
A new article co-authored by WWU Professor of Journalism's Derek Moscato, Jennifer Bettis of Western's Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI), and BPRI Research Fellow Andréanne Bissonnette, as well as Maria De Los Angeles Flores from the University of Texas at El Paso titled "Ballots and Borderlands: Inter-Nation Agenda Setting and News Coverage of the 2024 Presidential Election by U.S., Canada, and Mexico Press" has just been published in the journal American Behavioral Scientist.
The article examines reporting of borderlands topics within a national election, which offers a unique venue for understanding the role of news media in both configuring the salience of specific issues and impacting public opinion at local, regional, and national levels. The authors examined news media from Canada, the United States, and Mexico to analyze how legacy news outlets covered the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
WWU student research assistants Aiden Fox-Bailey, Devin Green, and Oliver Mortell supported with data collection as a part of their internships with the Border Policy Research Institute.
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