by Gergő Plankó | Oct 5, 2019 | American Presidency, Politics
In his victory speech after the presidential election in Ukraine this April, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “As long as I am not officially a president, I can say as a citizen of Ukraine to all countries of the post-Soviet Union: ‘Look at us, everything is possible.’” Even...
by Martin Kibaba | Oct 5, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism, Social Media in Politics and Journalism
Will social media really kill journalism? This is a big concern among journalists today. A study by the Pew Research Center suggests social media has become the main source of news online. With more than 2.4 billion internet users, nearly 64.5 percent receive breaking...
by Luján Scarpinelli | Oct 5, 2019 | Journalism in the era of "fake news", Politics
Great polarization, deep rift, religious partisanship. All these descriptions applied to the political and social reality in the United States sound familiar to me. The division – deepened by a controversial leader in recent years – has worsened in the run up to the...
by Kate Bartlett | Oct 3, 2019 | Changes in Journalism, Personal Reflections
The first newsroom I worked in had rats, and I’m not just speaking about the bosses. It was in an old two-story shophouse in Phnom Penh, and we frequently saw vermin in the kitchen. The computers were out of the 1980s and the walls were stained. On humid, rainy...
by Hamdi Baala | Oct 1, 2019 | American Presidency, Journalism, Midterm Elections, Political Coverage, Politics, Presidential Election, WPI Activities
To enter the Paramount Theater last Saturday afternoon, you needed to stand in line for at least two hours in the Austin, Texas, heat. The star of the show was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Texas Tribune Festival’s closing guest. I did not want to stand in...
by Hanna Liubakova | Oct 1, 2019 | Journalism in the Trump Era
Not only was President Trump trying to coerce a foreign leader to find dirt on a political opponent, he also promotes a longstanding conspiracy theory originating in right-wing circles. As the rough transcript of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
by Gergő Plankó | Oct 1, 2019 | Politics, Presidential Election
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied with two words when she was asked what changed her position about the impeachment of Donald Trump. “The facts,” she said, during a live interview on stage at the Texas Tribune Festival last week. We are in the middle of the biggest...
by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 30, 2019 | Homeland Security/Terrorism, Immigration Reform
It was 8:30am on a hot Saturday morning in the Embassy Suites lobby in Austin, Texas, and Stuart Maue had already put together a sophisticated automatic rifle made of over 15 balloons. He started light, a couple of minutes before, with two balloon-puppies, and quickly...
by Rosen Tsvetkov | Sep 29, 2019 | Journalism, Journalism in the Trump Era, Political Coverage
The days before elections in Bulgaria are always extremely tense. It is a well-known fact in my country that when there are elections, there are numerous attempts to manipulate the vote. Some of them are successful. The most popular method used by many Bulgarian...
by Kate Bartlett | Sep 29, 2019 | American Presidency, Personal Reflections, Politics, Presidential Election
When a little-known politician named Barack Obama first announced he was running for president I didn’t think he stood a chance. “Sadly, Americans will never vote for a black president,” I told my friends. I hadn’t spent any real time in the United States back then...
