Posts by Minna Asikainen:
What are the hipsters going to do?
The hipsters of Brooklyn are about to make big decisions – maybe not for just for themselves but for others too. History is very much about momentum. After visiting a middle school in Brooklyn I felt there might be one coming very soon. The hipsters are known...
Would you like to get the best gift ever?
Remember the feeling you had when opening presents as a child? You didn´t quite know what to expect and weren´t sure whether the Santa, or the aunt, or whoever it was, knew what you had wished for. Remember the very precise feeling you had when you...
“I want to be a Policoficer!”
“We try to teach our young boys that there are other career options than gangsters or sportspeople”. This is what a well-known educator said to our WPI-group at a low-income neighborhood in Minneapolis. Police shootings in the US (including...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
@worldpressinst
In @finnowl's first #WPIFellowship blog post, he wonders if the defamation case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems will drag down other media, too. Minnesota academics and journalists weigh in:
https://worldpressinstitute.org/will-the-landmark-case-against-fox-news-drag-down-other-media-too/
Check out my latest @GlobalMinnesota podcast episode w/ @Fawzeyah & @SaqibTanveer of this year's @worldpressinst International Fellows! Hear about the challenges of conducting journalism and speaking truth to power in Nigeria and Pakistan.
https://www.globalminnesota.org/event/podcast-episode-global-journalism-with-world-press-institute-fellows/