by Bridget Rollason | Mar 20, 2023 | Police & Community Tensions, Politics
After years of covering crime as a television journalist, ABC Wisconsin reporter Sarah Thamer found herself struggling to get out of bed and go to work. The tipping point came after someone tried to run her over on live TV in 2020. She was covering the protests that...
by Piyumi Fonseka | Mar 19, 2023 | International Health, Politics
Last June marked a turn in the abortion rights debate in the United States, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision from 1973 that protected a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. In response to the court decision, in January,...
by Julieta Nassau | Mar 18, 2023 | Democracy, Journalism
The BBC is one of the oldest and most recognized media outlets in the world. But for one weekend, the BBC was the news and the center of a huge debate. The British public network suspended Gary Lineker, host of “Match of the Day” and a former soccer star, because he...
by DANILO ALVES SILVA | Mar 18, 2023 | Democracy, Journalism, Politics, Social Media in Politics and Journalism
What can local media offer that mainstream outlets cannot? According to Joe Friedrichs, a radio news presenter from WTIP Community Radio in Grand Marais, Minn., local media has a distinct advantage over national media companies because they are embedded in the...
by FEYZA GUMUSLUOGLU | Mar 18, 2023 | Democracy, Politics, Presidential Election
U.S. democracy faces, a number of threats and challenges, but, the most serious one is “disinformation,” said Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon. The Minnesotan politician shared his views with this year’s journalist fellows of the World Press Institute on a...
by Bridget Rollason | Mar 17, 2023 | Climate Change
@bridgerollo #minnesota #grandmarais #climatechange #uspolitics #worldpressinstitute ♬ original sound - Bridget Rollason The remote Minnesotan community of Grand Marais is feeling the effects of climate change. Last year two teenagers pushed the council to declare a...
by Milena Kirova | Mar 16, 2023 | Democracy
The war in Ukraine has made life worse for millions of people. But one professor here in Minnesota is trying to make things better. Much like a superhero in the movies – by day he teaches theology, by night he saves lives from a distance. I am Milena Kirova...
by Tarek KAI | Mar 16, 2023 | American Presidency, Democracy, Political Coverage
Since the Feb. 24, 2022, I cannot remember one single day where the ongoing war in Ukraine did not cross my mind. It was no surprise to me to hear again about Ukraine, even in Minneapolis, where I met with Pavel Gavrilyuk, a Ukrainian-born professor of Theology at St....
by Fauziyya Tukur | Mar 15, 2023 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism
The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, sparked a national conversation about systemic racism and police brutality in the United States. It also brought many changes to American newsrooms and newsrooms across the world and in essence...
by Alexander Uggla | Mar 15, 2023 | American Presidency, Democracy, Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage, Presidential Election
The defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News might open a Pandora’s box of media scrutiny in the United States. Academics fear it could start new lawsuits calling other media organizations’ integrity and editorial decision-making processes into question. At first...