The Editor’s Desk: A Final Farewell
From the 1st Annual MIR Awards:
Writing this farewell speech was, in a lot of ways, like trying to encapsulate my…
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A Diamond in the Rough: The Search for Something New in an Age of Information
The advent of the information age is both praised and criticized for its unprecedented outflow of a seemingly…
The Facts and the Furious: A New Era of Journalism in Donald Trump’s America
“Fake news” - the term has graced news feeds and dominated headlines nearly every day for the past year, becoming a…
Imprisoning the Artist But Not the Art: The Persecution of Zehra Doğan
In July 2016, Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for her problematic art and social media…
DNAinfo: The End of a Local News Era
Last week, billionaire Joe Ricketts announced that he was shutting down the media conglomerate DNAinfo-Gothamist,…
Angolan Media: The Propaganda Machine
Despite the fact that "freedom of the press" is loosely protected in the Angolan Constitution, the former…
The War on Journalism in the Philippines
On January 6, 2017, university professor and radio announcer Mario Contaoi was riding his motorbike on a national…
Where Fact Trumps Fiction: In Defense of Journalism
Going through the comments section on news articles is not recommended, but if you insist on ruining your day,…
“Lyin’ Brian:” A Case for Ethical Journalism
In the midst of the on-going Brian Williams controversy, some journalists, columnists and editors such as Robert…
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