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Three Years After George Floyd’s Murder, What Have We Really Learned?

Three Years After George Floyd’s Murder, What Have We Really Learned?

The frenetic pace of day-to-day news coverage makes it difficult to create lasting change
June 8, 2023
Issac J. Bailey
CNN’s Trump Town Hall and How Journalists Should Deal with Dishonest Sources

CNN’s Trump Town Hall and How Journalists Should Deal with Dishonest Sources

From the May newsletter: Why CNN's town hall with Donald Trump is not getting us out of our silos
June 5, 2023
Natalie De Rosa
Reporting from Gaziantep 

Reporting from Gaziantep 

In the wake of a brutal civil war, exiled Syrian journalists have carved out space in this Turkish city for their independent newsrooms
June 1, 2023
Stefania D'Ignoti
CNN, Trump, and The Perils of ‘Anti-Woke’ Journalism

CNN, Trump, and The Perils of ‘Anti-Woke’ Journalism

Giving the former president the opportunity to repeatedly lie to a television audience isn’t getting us out of our silos
May 24, 2023
Issac J. Bailey
The Tumultuous Early History of Public Media

The Tumultuous Early History of Public Media

A new book examines how the efforts of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters helped create what is now NPR and PBS
May 19, 2023
Josh Shepperd
Threats Against Journalists on the Rise

Threats Against Journalists on the Rise

Nearly half of respondents report facing legal threats in first investigation of its kind from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism
May 9, 2023
Marigo Farr
What the Media’s (Still) Getting Wrong About Covid

What the Media’s (Still) Getting Wrong About Covid

From our April newsletter: How media coverage about Covid minimizes the health risks researchers attribute to the virus
May 2, 2023
Laura Colarusso
How One Journalist Unearthed the Secret History of Family Separation

How One Journalist Unearthed the Secret History of Family Separation

Atlantic reporter Caitlin Dickerson on how she produced the 30,000-word investigation on Trump’s Zero Tolerance border policy
April 26, 2023
How a Trip to Angola Helped One Reporter Tell the Story of Race in America

How a Trip to Angola Helped One Reporter Tell the Story of Race in America

Deborah Barfield Berry, NF '23, on covering slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the murder of George Floyd
April 19, 2023
Deborah Barfield Berry
Three Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism Needs to Reflect That

Three Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism Needs to Reflect That

Too much coverage minimizes the health risks researchers attribute to the virus
April 12, 2023
Kendra Pierre-Louis