by jpitney | Mar 8, 2021 | Congress, International Relations
From First Branch Forecast: The Congressional Office for International Leadership, formerly known as the Open World Leadership Center, had its Leg branch budget hearing last week as well. The office, which is in charge of an international exchange program to bring...
by jpitney | Mar 4, 2021 | Democracy, Freedom of Press, International Relations
Please read this important report. Not only is America not in top ten on freedom/democracy index, we aren’t in top 20 or even in top 50 countries in the world. https://t.co/8t0dJSKySo pic.twitter.com/MdlzE263Ec — Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) March 3, 2021 The...
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2020 | International Relations, Journalism, Mass Media
Megan Janetsky at Poynter: As news budgets were slashed over past decades, foreign bureaus were the first to go. We were the ones to replace them: an army of freelancers fighting for work week to week and wondering if our editors knew, or even cared, about the risks...
by jpitney | Jan 20, 2020 | Business, Ethics, International Relations, Public Opinion
A release from Edelman: The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that despite a strong global economy and near full employment, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years’ time, and 56 percent believe that...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2020 | International Relations, Journalism
A release from HBO: HBO is in production on the first project in its multi-film deal with best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. Farrow will collaborate with Academy Award nominated directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady of Loki Films...
by jpitney | Jan 18, 2020 | Democracy, International Relations
Ryan Dukeman at LegBranch.org: High profile, largely partisan, clashes over issues like war powers, Saudi Arabia, and the trade war, however, have obscured the opportunity for less charged, more institutionally effective ways for Congress to reassert its foreign...
