Preventable Deaths and the Need for Data-Driven Journalism My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media. Evan Balkcom 29 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
On the Vital Importance of (Good) Journalism Within this fact lies the key to journalism’s power to search for a social truth that applies to all. Yes, I am talking about investigative journalism and the nitty-gritty of covering city council meetings. Victor Greto 16 May 2019 · 6 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem. Evan Osborne 9 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
The Plight of Pitch Wars In 2019, though, it turns out that yes, you’re entitled to a book deal—as long as you collect enough marginalization points. J. Avery 9 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
The Virtue Economy These data are consistent with Amnesty’s findings, where nearly 9 percent of Twitter mentions toward black women were problematic. Suzie Mulesky 31 Jan 2019 · 16 min read
The Comment Awards Fiasco That seems itself to be an example of divisiveness and a snub to one form of diversity: that of diverse opinion. Claire Fox 25 Oct 2018 · 9 min read
#MeToo Casualty Ian Buruma Was the Editor We Needed I’m not the only reader left longing for an editor who displays a lordly disregard for public opinion Colin Marshall 26 Sep 2018 · 14 min read
Journalism in the Age of the Populist Right Bannon’s deplatforming has reignited the debate about the responsibilities that mainstream event organisers and media broadcasters have when giving a platform to far-right views, and what limits we should place on public discourse. Andrew Glover 5 Sep 2018 · 7 min read
Journalism Is Not Activism The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Robert Showah 5 Jul 2018 · 8 min read
Academic Journal Publishing is Headed for a Day of Reckoning Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions. Patrick Burns 6 Dec 2017 · 5 min read
Glenn Greenwald is Wrong Again on Charlie Hebdo Having falsely established that Charlie Hebdo were just picking on Muslims, he can lay the charge of hypocrisy upon anybody that has ever objected to any other speech. David Paxton 13 Sep 2017 · 7 min read