by jpitney | Oct 6, 2021 | Public Service
David French at The Dispatch: Writing in The Week, Joel Mathis stated the problem well: The democratic process starts at the local level. There are many little-known and ill-paid elected local officials whose motivations have little to do with ideology or ambition....
by jpitney | Oct 5, 2021 | Journalism
A reminder about CMC’s Dreier Roundtable Fall 2021 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article, of the kinds that appear in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern any issue in public affairs, broadly defined, domestic or...
by jpitney | Oct 4, 2021 | Journalism, Journalists
AP Executive Editor Julie Pace: One of our most important missions at AP is ensuring the safety and security of our staff and freelance journalists around the world.Our teams face both threats to their physical safety and increasing levels of online attacks and...
by jpitney | Oct 3, 2021 | Biden, Polarization, Public Opinion
From the UVA Center for Politics: The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project to explore the...
by jpitney | Oct 3, 2021 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists
WJZ-TV in Baltimore offers a timeline of the Capital Gazette shooting: June 28, 2018: A gunman enters the Capital Gazette offices with a “long gun,” shoots through a glass door and fires at multiple employees. Five staffers at the The Capital are killed in the attack:...
