Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of the blog Media Nation, said that GateHouse is not alone in cutting newsroom staffers: Most major newspaper owners in the country have done the same over the past several years. However, he said, given how lean GateHouse’s papers have already become, “it’s hard to imagine how they […]

According to Bruce Clark, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University, nostalgia is a particularly effective marketing tool. “There’s some evidence that nostalgia makes people a little less price sensitive,” he says. “There is the idea that seasonal scarcity is something that gets customers excited, so the fact that something is only available for […]

Such worry was reflected in a recent Northeastern University and Gallup survey that found 71 percent of Americans feared the surge in AI would cause more job loss than gain.

Emergency service dispatchers are trained to deal with people who are experiencing “the worst day of their lives,” says Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, an associate professor in the department of communication studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Researchers lean heavily on the information that Twitter provides to study the spread of disinformation, said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University. “In the study of social media, it dominates because it’s so open,” he said.

A study by academics at Imperial College London and Northeastern University in Boston has found that smart TVs in Britain and America may be sending “extensive information” about their users to companies other than the manufacturer.

 A new Northeastern University and Imperial College London study found that some smart TVs send data to companies like Netflix, Facebook, and Google, even when the devices are not in use.

In a national survey of employers that we at Northeastern University recently conducted, a strong majority of HR leaders said that the value of educational credentials in hiring has either increased (48%) or held steady (29%) over the last five years. 

Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University

The full study, a joint collaboration between Northeastern University and Imperial College London took a closer look at 81 popular smart TVs, streaming dongles, smart speakers, and video doorbells made by vendors including Google, Roku, and Amazon.

Researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London caught smart TVs made by Samsung and LG and streaming devices from Roku and Amazon uploading data about their owners to advertisers, in some cases even when the devices were not in use.   

James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, released a study in March that also found an uptick in the rates of intimate partner violence involving a gun. Fox said it’s unclear whether the increase is temporary or a trend.