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Journalism professor Matthew Carroll says anonymous sources help inform the public about stories such as Trump, Ukraine, and the whistleblower
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Journalism professor Matthew Carroll says anonymous sources help inform the public about stories such as Trump, Ukraine, and the whistleblower

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Could the youth who organized global climate strike be uniquely positioned to influence world leaders?
Climate change activists participate in an environmental demonstration as part of a global youth-led day of action, Friday Sept. 20, 2019, in New York. A wave of climate change protests swept across the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can't wait for action. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Could the youth who organized global climate strike be uniquely positioned to influence world leaders?

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Journalism student Ysabelle Kempe took Humans of New York approach to document the effects of climate change in six US states
“I think the best thing journalists can do in their reporting on climate change is to make it more human,” says Ysabelle Kempe, a journalism student at Northeastern. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

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Journalism student Ysabelle Kempe took Humans of New York approach to document the effects of climate change in six US states

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Northeastern University professor studies slavery, black women’s clubs, and the representation of African American women in advertisements
Patricia Davis, a new associate professor of communication studies, has analyzed how black history museums have memorialized the experience of African-Americans before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

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Northeastern University professor studies slavery, black women’s clubs, and the representation of African American women in advertisements

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The Trump administration ban on flavored e-cigarettes wouldn’t just affect teens who vape; it would help their peers inhaling secondhand aerosol as well
According to new research by Northeastern assistant professor Susan Mello, teenage exposure to secondhand aerosols was even more prevalent in 2018 than their e-cigarette use during the same time. Photo via iStock

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The Trump administration ban on flavored e-cigarettes wouldn’t just affect teens who vape; it would help their peers inhaling secondhand aerosol as well

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The founder of the animation studio Mighty Oak has directors for HBO and Netflix on speed dial

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The founder of the animation studio Mighty Oak has directors for HBO and Netflix on speed dial

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Northeastern University researchers are designing the future of work, starting with collaborative robots for processing seafood
A soft gripper attachment holds a fake fish in Taşkın Padır's lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

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Northeastern University researchers are designing the future of work, starting with collaborative robots for processing seafood

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Northeastern University graduate Kenzie Swanhart, who promotes her recipes on QVC, has co-authored The New Newlywed Cookbook to ‘celebrate the partnership of cooking’
Northeastern graduates Kenzie Swanhart and Julien Levesquev say that their culinary partnership was built in the kitchen of a small apartment in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Now the duo is about to release The New Newlywed Cookbook: 100 Recipes for Every Couple to Cook Together to unite people through the joys of cooking and eating. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

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Northeastern University graduate Kenzie Swanhart, who promotes her recipes on QVC, has co-authored The New Newlywed Cookbook to ‘celebrate the partnership of cooking’

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The Scope, a digital magazine run by Northeastern University students, covers stories that other outlets in Greater Boston have overlooked
Meg Heckman, assistant professor of journalism, and Catherine McGloin, the editor of The Scope, work on a story for the digital magazine. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

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The Scope, a digital magazine run by Northeastern University students, covers stories that other outlets in Greater Boston have overlooked

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After the shooting in El Paso, 8chan has been implicated in three mass shootings. Should regulators step in?

After the shooting in El Paso, 8chan has been implicated in three mass shootings. Should regulators step in?

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What people with musical anhedonia might tell us about social interaction

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What people with musical anhedonia might tell us about social interaction

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Six epidemics from American history show how urban design affects our health

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Six epidemics from American history show how urban design affects our health

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