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News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters
May 15, 2024
Bootstrapped publications like mine do their best to keep the news alive in communities now struggling just to survive.
Firefighters perform structure protection against the Glass Fire in Napa County on October 1, 2020 in Calistoga, California.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty)
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When wildfires began erupting in the
The Rise of Authoritarian Journalism in France
A period of media frenzy has revealed, and accelerated, a political shift: In the weeks since the Hamas massacres on October 7, France’s government and mainstream media have managed a double feat. They have expelled from the “republican arc” (the spectrum of the politically acceptable) the left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) and simultaneously admitted the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) to the fold. The RN, founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen as the Front National, was once deemed unworthy of … Read more
A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country
When Elena Kostyuchenko was five years old, in Yaroslavl, a provincial city a hundred and seventy miles from Moscow, the corner of the room that she shared with her mother was taken up by a television with a bulging screen and a fuzzy picture. Kostyuchenko was captivated. She brushed the dust off the picture with her fingers. “It felt like touching a moth’s wings, ever-so-gently,” she writes in “I Love Russia,” a memoir and collection of reportage translated by Bela
Texas A&M to Pay $1 Million Settlement to Journalism Professor after Pulling Tenure Offer over DEI Activism
‘We can’t just give people a set of facts anymore,’ McElroy told NPR, arguing that journalism should advance DEI principles.
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The Resignation of Stanford’s President Shows the Importance of Student Journalism
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July 28, 2023
An interview with the Daily reporter Theo Baker, who helped expose manipulation of scientific data in research papers by Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
A view of the campus of Stanford University.
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Audie Cornish’s Long Struggle to Remake the News
Since October, Audie Cornish—formerly of NPR, now of CNN—has been doing something surprising: making an insightful news show that delivers substance without a side helping of despair. On “The Assignment with Audie Cornish,” her weekly half-hour podcast, she interviews people whose lives intersect with current events—progressive district attorneys, OnlyFans workers, activist school-board members—in a format that allows for nuance and intimacy. Often, that format is a trialogue: a three-person conversation in which the guests, who don’t know one another, have
The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve
Bad Things remained rare in the early decades of the twentieth century. Then they began to proliferate, and now I see them everywhere. One reason may be that writers imitate other writers, both consciously and unconsciously, and imitation eventually leads to stylistic convergence. Whatever the explanation, people nowadays seem more likely than ever to begin sentences with appositives or similarly irritating clauses or phrases—as in this triple punch, from the Washington Post (which has other issues, too):
The Man Who Explains Italy
In the middle of August, my wife and our two small children went to visit her family in Milan. We arrived at Malpensa Airport at dawn and proceeded to passport control, where the immigration officer, as is customary with public servants in Italy, seemed vaguely put out that we’d interrupted whatever important business he was conducting on his phone. My wife handed over two Italian passports, for herself and our five-year-old, and two American ones. The officer’s mood immediately improved:
We Witnessed Mariupol’s Agony And Fled A Russian Hit List
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.
We had been documenting the siege of the Ukrainian city by Russian troops for more than two weeks and were the only international journalists left in the city. We were reporting inside the hospital when gunmen began stalking the corridors. Surgeons gave us white scrubs to wear as camouflage.
Suddenly at dawn, a dozen soldiers burst in:
Columbia Journalism School stellt einen Direktor für Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ein
Menschen mit Gesichtsmasken gehen am 9. März 2020 an der Columbia University in New York City. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Columbias Graduate School of Journalism stellt einen Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ein, um Anti-Rassismus-Initiativen in die Lehrpläne der Schule aufzunehmen.
Zu den Verantwortlichkeiten der Rolle gehören: „eine Überprüfung der Schulpolitik und der Erwartungen an die DEI, mögliche Sitzungen zum Betrieb eines inklusiven Klassenzimmers, die Entschärfung von volatilen Unterrichtssituationen, die Präsentation sensibler Materialien, die Vermeidung von Sprachauslösern, Diskussionen über die