Michael Boyle is co-author of a research article recently published in Mass Communication & Society (Volume 12, Issue 3). The article, "Community Structure and Social Protest: Influences on Newspaper Coverage," considers the role of community-level characteristics such as population size, income, and how rural or urban a community is on how news organizations from those communities treat protest groups. Results showed that newspapers in less pluralistic (i.e., typically smaller, more rural, and lower per-capita income) communities were more critical of protesters when local government was the target and were less likely to quote protesters in stories. Overall, the findings suggest that - all things being equal - protest groups have a better shot at receiving favorable coverage in big city papers than in small town papers.