by jpitney | Mar 15, 2022 | Dreier, Journalism, Ukraine
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: After the 2018 attack in Annapolis, Md., which killed five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper, an effort was put together to remember them, and all the other journalists who’ve fallen in the line of duty. The Fallen...
by jpitney | Mar 14, 2022 | California Politics, Deliberation, Democracy, Mexico
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Until 2000, the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) won every presidential election for some 70 years. This led the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to mock Mexico as “the perfect dictatorship,” which perpetuated one-party rule through...
by jpitney | Mar 13, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
From The Independent: Brent Renaud, an award-winning US filmmaker and former contributor to The New York Times, was fatally shot by Russian forces in Irpin, close to Kyiv, according to officials in Ukraine. The Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, working...
by jpitney | Mar 12, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
Nic Robertson at CNN: I leave Moscow angry and sad. It feels like a passage out of darkness to light, but left behind are friends trapped in one man’s tunnel vision. Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t just destroying Ukraine, but two nations,...
by jpitney | Mar 11, 2022 | Coronavirus, Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at RealClearEducation: Student development and wellness, both inside and outside the classroom, are now top priorities for many colleges and universities, which have hired more administrators to work with students on a wide range of initiatives...
