What makes Steve Stadelman, an Illinois state senator, so concerned about local news? It’s not just his 25-year career in local broadcast media, which he left to enter politics in 2013. Stadelman says it doesn’t take someone from within the … Read more
It’s been four years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is estimated up to 65 million people around the world are still struggling with long Covid symptoms. Despite research and recommended treatments, there is no cure. Read more
Anyone who’s spent any time in the journalism industry has heard these statistics over and over: About 2,500 newspapers have shuttered in the past two decades. One-fifth of Americans live in a news desert. Several major outlets have laid off … Read more
After a gunman fatally shot a professor on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Monday, Aug. 28, the editors of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student newspaper, were unsure of what their front cover should be. Read more
On April 23, 2021, Meduza, a prominent independent Russian news site based in Latvia, was labeled a “foreign agent” by the Russian government. The designation caused the site to lose most of its advertising revenue, forcing it to shift to … Read more
When the media fails to sufficiently and accurately report on issues affecting a marginalized community, who does it harm? Everyone, says Kae Petrin, co-founding member of the Trans Journalists Association. They compare it to the coverage of the HIV … Read more
May 3 was World Press Freedom Day, and it came at a time when the environment may be tougher than ever for journalists. With the rise of authoritarian regimes, and reactionary responses to the booming information sharing of the digital … Read more
It’s a familiar statistic: Approximately 2,500 local news outlets in the United States have closed in the past 20 years — a trend that has continued throughout the pandemic. But, in some of these “news deserts,” the places where papers have … Read more
What would you do if the target of your investigation threatened you with a lawsuit? What if it came from a direction you weren’t expecting: A government official you’ve been reporting on in Azerbaijan happens to have financial holdings in … Read more
On Sept. 22, Iranian journalist Niloofar Hamedi, a reporter for the Tehran-based newspaper Shargh, was arrested in her home by authorities. Her house was raided, her laptop and phone confiscated, and her Twitter account suspended. Hamedi’s husband and … Read more