Can the Students Speak? US News Coverage of the Gaza Protests

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William Youmans

Northwestern Qatar

William Lafi Youmans is a visiting associate professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is broadly interested in questions of transnationalism, power and communication, with his primary research interests focusing on global news, media industries, technology, law, and politics. His other areas of research interest include media law, Middle East politics, and Arab American studies.

Youmans is the author of Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America (Oxford UP), which examines Al Jazeera’s efforts to gain a share of the news market in the United States. He has been quoted in articles in Salon, Washington Post, Newsweek, Variety, and The New York Times, among others. He was a guest on radio and television programs, such as NPR, Headline News, Al Jazeera English, and ARD. He has published in the Washington Post, Middle East Report, and Nieman Journalism Lab.

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