by jpitney | Dec 3, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Fall 2024 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...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Social Media
George Packer at The Atlantic: We’re living in a world where facts instantly perish upon contact with human minds. Local news is disappearing, and a much-depleted national press can barely compete with the media platforms of billionaires who control users...
by jpitney | Oct 31, 2024 | Journalism, Newspapers
Howard French at Foreign Policy: Since Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, blocked the publication’s endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, more than 250,000 people have canceled their subscriptions. In the wake of Bezos’s...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
From the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University: The number of local news deserts expanded in the U.S. this year, with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news, according to the Medill State...
by jpitney | Oct 17, 2024 | Journalism, Social Media, Uncategorized, Youth
Kirsten Eddy at Pew Across most age groups, Americans remain far less likely to trust information from social media sites than from national and local news organizations. But the youngest adults are an exception. Adults under 30 are now nearly as likely to have a lot...
by jpitney | Oct 16, 2024 | Iraq, Journalism, Journalists
Clark Bentson at ABC News: A memorial to fallen journalists killed during the war to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq was inaugurated in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. The Garden of Truth, as the memorial is called, was opened last month by Qubad...
