Public Sociology

• Expert for news story: Serbin, Samantha. 2024. “ Digging into the Phenomenon: Why Women Around the World are Obsessing Over Convicted Killer Wade Wilson .” ABC 7 News (Fort Myers, FL). August 29.
• Expert for news story: Wu, Katherine J. 2024. “Pets Really Can Be Like Human Family.” The Atlantic. January 16.
• Expert for news story: Boone, Rebecca. 2022. “Idaho Students’ Unsolved Deaths Prompt Rumors, Harassment.” AP News. December 16.
• Expert for news show: “Reflecting on the Uvalde Tragedy,” A Public Affair (hourlong call-in radio show), WORT 89.9 FM, Madison, WI (May 31, 2022).
• Expert for news story: Betuel, Emma. 2020. "Mask On: Inside the Global Social Media Movement that Claims It Changed the CDC's Mind on Masks." Inverse. April 17.
• Expert for news story: Egoaguirre, Jean Palou. 2019. “Trump Condena la ‘Ideología Siniestra’ del Supremacismo Blanco Tras Tiroteos Masivos / Trump Condemns the ‘Sinister Ideology’ of White Supremacy After Mass Shootings,” El Mercurio (Santiago, Chile), August 6, pp. A4.
• Expert for news story: Pertsovsky, Natalie. 2019. “The ‘Murderabilia’ Market: A Look Inside the World of True Crime Art Collecting.” Rooster Magazine. April 8.
• Expert for news story: Pertsovsky, Natalie. 2019. “The reason why so many women are attracted to Ted Bundy and serial killers in general.” Rooster Magazine. February 27.
• Op-ed: Levin, Jack and Julie B. Wiest. 2019. “Parkland Shooting One Year Later: A Lesson for the Media.” The Crime Report. January 28.
• Op-ed: Levin, Jack and Julie B. Wiest. 2018. "The media's duty to focus on heroes, not killers." New York Daily News. February 16.
• Expert for news story: Popken, Ben. 2017. “#MeToo isn’t just ‘ice bucket challenge’ for women.” NBC News. October 18. 
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2016. "Most U.S. violence has one thing in common." Medium. June 14.
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2016. "Conversations about mass violence must change." Medium. June 12.
• Expert for news story: Finnerty, Megan. 2014. “Native group’s plans to protest at Cardinals game fueled by social media.” The Arizona Republic. October 10.
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2014. “Victims of pharmacy mistakes have little recourse.” Digital Journal, February 26.
• Blog entry: Wiest, Julie B, 2013. "Rolling Stone’s biggest blunder is failing to recognize its power." Blog entry, August 17.
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2012. “The personal is political for child sexual abuse, too.” News & Record, December 30. 
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2012. “Seeing the patterns, planning interventions.” The News & Observer, December 18.  
• Expert for news story: Johnson, Paul. 2012. “Mass violence outbreaks.” High Point Enterprise, December 18. 
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2012. “They also served: Honor all our veterans.” The News & Observer, November 11.
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2012. “Violent crime need not make us cower.” News & Record, September 23. 
• Op-ed: Wiest, Julie B. 2012. “Keep perceptions of crime in perspective.” The Herald-Sun, September 22.
• Social media expert for monthly radio program: “Dialogue” on WUOT, 91.9 FM (March 3, 2010)

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