by jpitney | Apr 4, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism, Mass Media
Tali Arbel and David Bauder at AP: Researchers have long worried that the next recession — which economists say is already upon us — “could be an extinction-level event for newspapers,” said Penelope Abernathy, a University of North Carolina professor who studies the...
by jpitney | Apr 3, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus
At LegBranch.org, Kevin Kosar points out that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) is compicated, and that House members and senators have returned home. Altogether these facts argue for each member of Congress to direct his or her office’s...
by jpitney | Apr 2, 2020 | Journalism, Mass Media
Let us #PrayTogether for all who work in the media, who work to communicate, to inform us, so that people are not so isolated, and to educate children. We pray for all those who are helping us bear this time of isolation. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) April 1,...
by jpitney | Apr 1, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Coronavirus
Michael Apfeldorf at the Library of Congress. In 1918, the United States faced one of the worst public health challenges in its history. An influenza pandemic – also known as the Spanish flu – infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, killing 20-50 million...
