Newsletters: What can Pakistani newsrooms learn from American news outlets
“3 reasons why email is dead” “It’s 2018 and email is already dead” “Meta to biz: Email is dead — long live WhatsApp” These are some of the headlines you find on different tech blogs when you search about the future of email. Back in Pakistan, we operate under...
Reflections of a Turkish journalist on the role of the press and disinformation
The Turkish mainstream media and general population view American media as intrinsically hostile to Turkey, to its government and to its people. It’s as if The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and any other media institution is in constant search for an excuse...
Overcrowding and crammed cells expose San Quentin prison inmates
The reporters, all dressed in blue, look up from their computer screens when we enter the editorial room of San Quentin News. We, the World Press Institute fellows, have left all our belongings – including mobile phones – outside of the facility to be allowed to enter...
A Look Into America’s Middle East Partners and Enemies
The least that can be said about Donald Trump’s U.S. foreign policy is that it was characterized by enormous upheavals. Since the first minutes of his inaugural address, President Trump pledged that “it is going to be only America First” and promised to “reinforce old...
Visiting the newsroom in San Quentin prison was mobilizing: this is what makes it unique
They produce a newspaper, a news website, a magazine, a newsletter, a newscast and a podcast with more than eight million downloads. I am not talking about an ordinary emerging media conglomerate in the United States. It is the Media Center of San Quentin, the oldest...
Discover the books inspiring global journalists on their journey across America
Are you looking for a good book to read? Check out these recommendations from some of the 2023 World Press Institute fellows, who have been traveling around the United States for nine weeks to understand the country’s diverse roots and citizens. The WPI brings...
Stories behind bars at San Quentin Prison
Open stainless-steel toilets, metal framed beds and brick walls were those usually seen on countless TV shows and movies while stories of inmates serving time for multiple crimes such as murder, robbery and drug trafficking were those often read and forgotten...
Does ‘trust’ really matter for news?
Before coming to the United States for the WPI fellowship, one of my primary concerns about journalism was the growing lack of trust in the news. It bothered me that for too many people facts were not sacred anymore and they only believed the information that...
Why investigative journalism is now stronger than ever
Marina Walker has a bright career as an investigative journalist from her beginnings in her native Argentina to her current position as the executive editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, based in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights of her career was...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
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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/