As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News
Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement.
Alexandra Hudson
· 7 min read
journalism
A collection of 42 posts
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
· 6 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 15 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
· 7 min read
Journalism Is Not Activism
The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Robert Showah
· 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 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
· 8 min read