In The News: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs

Yahoo!

More and more people are questioning the value that social media brings into their lives, with many users choosing to disconnect and trading in blue screens for blue skies, or at least, a life less dependent on checking notifications every three seconds.

Hello Giggles

Signing off from social media due to depression, stress, and anxiety is common, says Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ communication studies professor and social media researcher Natalie Pennington.

MinnPost

The suburban voters who helped Democrats gain seats in Minnesota two years ago might be holding the line again as the presidential election nears.

Las Vegas Sun

A leading Southern Nevada public policy researcher will serve in a newly endowed position at UNLV that was funded by the largest donation of its type in state history.

Rewire

Are you one of the millions of younger people quitting Facebook? For more than a decade, we’ve used Facebook as a way to keep up with friends.

Grist

The holidays just aren’t complete without a little drama for dessert. And what’s more dramatic than a planet in crisis?

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

A new UNLV class is placing students in the middle of crime scenes.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

New census bureau statistics are giving us an even clearer picture of just how many Californians are packing up and leaving to make their new home in Nevada.

Mother Jones

It’s his form of environmental justice.

Naples Daily News

Naples-based Beasley Broadcast Group has jumped on the esports bandwagon.

Grist

Pope Francis is not your average pope. He’s weighed in on prison reform and women’s rights, and he wrote a whole encyclical on climate change in 2015. On Friday, at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law, Francis waded into the climate change debate again with an unusual idea: perhaps environmental destruction should be classified as an official sin.

Las Vegas Weekly

Ashton Ridley had 15 years experience working in public radio in Las Vegas at KCEP-FM before landing his new role as general manager of UNLV's public radio station, KUNV-FM 91.5 "Jazz and More."