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Amanda J. Crawford

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Recent Interviews & Appearances

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Quoted in ...

  • CT Insider: "The disinformation motivation," Oct. 23, 2024.
  • Connecticut Post: "Experts: Voters can expect 'avalanche of disinformation,'" Oct. 22, 2024.
  • CT Insider: "Connecticut Briefing: The post-truth world," Oct. 15, 2024.
  • NBC-CT: "How can you guard against online misinformation? UConn professor offers tips," July 16, 2024.
  • Littleton Independent/Colorado Community Media: "An impact America ‘can’t underestimate’: How news coverage of the Columbine school shooting created myths and martyrs." April 18, 2024.
  • Sun Journal: "Lies about Lewiston shooting pushed by online skeptics: For some, mass murder is a 'false flag' operation designed to seize guns." Also ran in Yahoo News, AOL Nov. 10, 2023.
  • The SPJ News: "How to cover a mass shooting: Weighing reporters’ mental health during and after." Sept. 30, 2023.
  • Hartford Courant: "Amid Threats of Violence, Online Harassment, CT Elected Officials Look for Solutions," May 6, 2023. 
  • Her Campus: "Who Really Won in the Fox-Dominion Settlement," May 5, 2023.
  • JAWS: "Inspired By: Amanda Crawford," March 30, 2023
  • CT Insider: "Alex Jones' order to pay $50M to Sandy Hook parents may not quell misinformation, experts say," Aug. 13, 2022
  • The Spokesman-Review: "Shawn Vestal: The poisonous fruit of InfoWars has seeped into the nation one post at a time." Oct. 16, 2022.
  • Independent: "Why Alex Jones is facing trial again over his Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ lies – and what it could cost him," Oct. 3, 2022. Also on Yahoo News.
  • NewsTimes: "On Sandy Hook, Alex Jones says 'they' are coming for the First, Second Amendments. Why he's wrong," Oct. 1, 2022
  • USA Today: "A new trial against Alex Jones is expected to examine the finances of his misinformation empire," Sept. 8, 2022
  • CT Insider: “Connecticut Residents Organizing to Support ‘People’s Convoy’ of Truckers Headed to D.C.,” Feb. 28, 2022.
  • The Republican-American: "The Fourth Estate’s future: The problem everyone is trying to solve." July 3, 2021.

Radio & Podcasts

  • Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR: Where We Live: "A look at the local news landscape and how to spot pink slime journalism," March 13, 2023.
  • Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR: Where We Live: "From check marks to layoffs: a former Twitter Employee Shares Their Experience," Nov. 18, 2022
  • The Crux podcast, Episode 81: "How the media adds to 'the crescendo of conspiracy theories' with Amanda Crawford," Sept. 11, 2022.
  • Counterpoint public affairs radio show, WPKN-Bridgeport: "Dissecting the GOP’s ‘Big Lie’ and Other Toxic Conspiracy Theories." Jan. 10, 2022

Television & Video

CT '24: Covering mass shootings

Discussing my Nieman Reports article on the Supporting Mass Shooting Survivors Project's recommended best practices for journalists.

How can you guard against online misinformation?

Me on NBC CT discussing misinformation after the July 2024 assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump. 

Getting to the Truth

Me on WFSB's CT '23 Sunday politics program.

Scripps News: Mistrust in News Media

I appeared on Scripps News' "The Why" as part of national news literacy week. Jan. 23, 2023

Mis/Disinformation in the Media

A conversation hosted by the League of Women Voters of Litchfield County and the Litchfield Historical Society.

Conspiracy theorists targeted Sandy Hook families. He fought back.

I was interviewed as an expert in this CNN Business feature. 

The Future of News

I joined this conversation sponsored by the University of Hartford and the CT Mirror. 

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