As part of a 2018 study with my colleagues Kenny Joseph of the University at Buffalo and David Lazer at Northeastern University, we analyzed partisanship across more than 300,000 news articles produced by 644 journalists at 25 different U.S. news outlets.

In a recent study we conducted together with colleagues from Northeastern University and USC, we found, among other things, that broadly targeted ads on Facebook for supermarket cashier positions were shown to an audience of 85% women, while jobs with taxi companies went to an audience that was approximately 75% black. 

Between 2010 and 2015, foundations gave $80.1 million in grants to local and state nonprofit news organizations, according to a study by the Shorenstein Center and Northeastern University.

Northeastern University says it is developing a microgrid that sets the bar for higher education, using a self-funded approach to harden its campus resiliency while achieving sustainability goals.

As of March, highly toxic fluorinated compounds called PFAS were found in 610 locations, including drinking water sites and military sites, in 43 states, according to the study released Monday by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute.

“We talk about this huge investment of $100 billion, and that being pie in the sky, but just the budget increase for defense spending last year was $70 billion. Overall, it was like $800 billion,” Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, told me. “People are dropping dead by the […]

They partnered with researchers at Northeastern University who figured out a way to “scrape” data from Uber’s and Lyft’s application programming interfaces, or APIs. These APIs, which are publicly accessible, allow you to see all the cars in your area when you open up a ride-hailing app on your phone, said Drew Cooper, a modeler at […]

“Moving away from criminalization while building new treatment infrastructure that’s grounded in harm reduction must be central to any plan moving forward,” Zachary Siegel, a reporting fellow at the Health In Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University told Fortune.

A 2015 study by researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University found that funds with at least one female fund manager failed at higher rates, driven by capital-raising troubles.

For advice on how to grow your family business, I turned to two experts: Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University and a senior editor on the EIX Editorial Board of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis (full disclosure: The Schulze Foundation is a funder […]

A number of high-profile serial killers, especially from the 1970s and ’80s, are still “celebrated” in entertainment and documentaries, says James Alan Fox, criminology professor at Northeastern University and co-author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.”

A study done in 2017 at Northeastern University looked at Trump’s tweets from his election to his inauguration, that “identified ten publicly traded firms.” “Using standard event study methods, we find that positive (negative) content tweets elicited positive (negative) abnormal returns on the event date and virtually all of this effect is from the opening stock price […]