by Camilla Bath | Aug 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
“BREAKING: Officer on Ferguson crowd control relieved of duty” screams across the bottom of the screen, blocky white letters on a bright CNN-red strap. A day later, the same story is still running as breaking, with a new twist: “LIVE: Cop suspended over hate-filled...
by Denis Dyomkin | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
When back in Russia, I struggle to remember when had bought a paper – on a newsprint – in a news stand last time: like everywhere in Europe, computers and smartphones have become a main carrier for news, substituting traditional formats. European...
by Jonatan Placing | Aug 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
According to film director Brian Levant, who worked with Robin Williams when his career took of, everyone was stunned by his energy and creativity. But Levant also remembers how Williams fueled himself with drugs. “Every time he’d sneeze, he’d say,...
by Sumeera Riaz | Aug 16, 2014 | Sustainability
by Mandakini Gahlot | Aug 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
During the course of the week, I have been scribbling little notes to myself – on paper napkins, on newspapers, in my notebook – all of them ideas for things I should blog about. Topics include “Supermarkets in America/consumer culture,” “All you can drink Soda,” “The...
by Ilina Stoyanova | Aug 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
When our ancestors were fighting it was will of freedom that had led them – basic things as right to live, eat, make a family, having children. Nowadays, we do have it, the freedom and we are trying to extend it in some way. But do we know how to preserve it?...
by Ivo Van Woerden | Aug 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
You might expect an investigative journalist who’s flown in from the Netherlands to become a Fellow at the World Press Institute to use this blog to share insights on serious subjects like politics or criminal investigations. I’m afraid those comments will have to...
by Shalailah Medhora | Aug 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
A chance meeting with a group of Young Missionaries leads Shalailah Medhora to look more deeply at the bonds between Christianity and capitalism. On our first night in the United States, nine blurry-eyed news hounds went out for pizza. The restaurant was just a block...
by Tao Fu | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
(I’ve just been back at my house in Beijing. I remember I had said yes when Susan advised me to post what I said on the last night in twin city as a blog. I want to keep the promise and give my thanks again to WPI people as an addition.) (I’ve just been back at...
by Paul Henson | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
(tAll smiles. The 2013 WPI fellows, center panel, on the electronic photo wall of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle) We arrived in St. Paul in summer; now it is fall, the journey is over. I arrived with a suitcase full of things I felt I will need for 9...
