by Mariana Segulin | Apr 18, 2022 | Journalism, New Business Models for Journalism in the Digital Age, WPI Activities
Not the ratings, not the ads, not the sponsors, not the website metrics, not the social media engagement. None of the content of that long list matters when it comes to journalism, according to the number of professionals we talked to in the past week as part of the...
by Nelly Kalu | Apr 10, 2022 | Agriculture and Rural Issues, WPI Activities
Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, my parents played a popular song by South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Umqombothi to celebrate a special occasion or just another Saturday evening entertaining friends with palm wine and bush meat. Umqombothi is a locally brewed...
by Meghdeep Bhattacharyya | Apr 7, 2022 | Personal Reflections, Politics, WPI Activities
During a visit this week to southern Minnesota’s New Ulm, the World War II junkie in me was thrilled to chance upon a fascinating nugget of history from this city of barely 14,000. Flandrau State Park, 2 miles from our hotel, was developed as part of a federally...
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 Rosen Tsvetkov | Sep 22, 2019 | Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Personal Reflections, WPI Activities
The Newseum, a museum dedicated to journalism and the First Amendment, and situated between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, will close at the end of 2019. “This was a difficult decision, but it was the responsible one,” said Jan Neuharth, chair аnd CEO of the...
by Hamdi Baala | Sep 10, 2019 | Personal Reflections, Police & Community Tensions, Policy, Politics, WPI Activities
“I hope you all feel safe while visiting the United States,” said a woman who works at the Minnesota State Fair during a discussion with WPI journalists on gun violence in the country. “When I was in Ghana, I saw the news on TV about shootings in the...