by Iuliia Mendel | Sep 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
The entire world is in panic. For the first time in dozens of years — actually for the first time in many generations — the cause isn’t a war, a stock market crash or a natural disaster. The problem has a new, scary name: the migration crisis. Well-known...
by Tanmoy | Sep 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Yesterday at the state fair I noticed what ever was offered on a stick was greatly welcomed and adapted by everyone. That made me think what if the national and international issues of american politics was offered in a same way, would that solve the...
by Maia Jastreblansky | Sep 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
The race for the White House is always there. When I turn on the TV, when I get together with the Americans, when we talk with specialists and journalists… the presidential campaign catches my attention all the time. Particularly, because we are also living the...
by Kipchumba Some | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is Monday morning and well past the Sunday mid night deadline given to me by David, our “supreme guide”, and the WPI executive director, to write this blog. See, for days on end I have been agonizing about what to write about my stay in the US so...
by Iuliia Mendel | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Many Americans are rightfully mystified and concerned by nostalgia for communism, especially when they learn there are those who miss the Soviet Union not only among radicals in Putin’s Russia – but also in my home country of Ukraine. Americans saw the dark truth...
by Priyadarshini Sen | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
The quaint little town of Ely north of Minnesota past the grey waters of Lake Superior, comes as a neat surprise all wrapped in lush green on a rainy evening late August. Our six-hour long first road trip in the United States with pit-stops at Highway 61 and Dylan...
by Jussi Niemelainen | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Unfathomable deaths have dominated the news this week both in the US and Europe. In the US, a former reporter murdered two journalists from his former channel in Virginia on Wednesday on air. In Europe, Austrian police found a truck with dozens of bodies abandoned on...
by Matthias Sdun | Aug 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
How does it feel? How does it feel? To be on your own – and than suddenly drawn? By some kind of your own? [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKXFMpXtQ0]
by Matthias Sdun | Aug 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
The circumstances and conditions under which journalist are working can widely differ. But no matter how diverse our daily routines may be, we often face similar moral questions and dilemmas. How do I deal with interview partners that demand money? Is it correct to...
by Teodora Trifonova | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Social media is driving the 2016 presidential race. That’s why the candidates of both parties increasingly view Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram as the main battleground in the fight for the White House. Now they found that using their Twitter and...