Posts by Kalina Goranova:
Jails for everybody
The ship leaves the WPI Fellows at Alcatraz Island, located in the San Francisco Bay. Above us is one of the most famous prisons in the world – Alcatraz. A leaflet informs us the prison was closed because of high costs. Now Alcatraz is a tourist attraction, while on...
Spotlight is alive
I still remember clearly the thoughts in my head after I watched the movie Spotlight. It was a perfect 2 hours and 8 minutes – an ideal romantic image of what journalism should be like. The ideal romantic image of the deeply passionate journalist whose work brings...
Let’s go MAD*, again!
Almost 15,000. This is the number of the nuclear warheads in the world. Russia leads that chart with 7,000, followed by the United States with 6,800. Every hour, $2.2 million of the U.S. taxpayers’ money goes directly toward nuclear weapons. „Nuclear material is...
Because we like you!
At the age of 75 in Oct.12, 2003 Joan Beverly Kroc dies. As the third wife of McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc, she inherited his fortune after his death in 1984. During her life Mrs. Kroc gave away more than $1 billion toward causes ranging from animal welfare,...
Naturally, we had to talk about the state of journalism in #NewHorizonsWPI host country, Bulgaria. Read up on our last panel of the conference here:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-dire-state-of-independent-media-in-bulgaria/
Podcasts as a tool (for audience engagement, as a revenue stream) came up a lot at the #NewHorizonsWPI Conference on 9/24 --
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/dr-ruja-or-how-we-stopped-worrying-about-podcasts-and-embraced-them/
Check out @AEJBulgaria's write up of day 1 at #NewHorizonsWPI:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-big-questions-faced-by-media-new-horizons-in-journalism-conference-day-1/