image: UnSplash/Markus Winkler Journalism the world over is in trouble, and this journalist can agree on. The American Press Institute visualizes the challenges facing the media today, and it ranges from information disorder and technology monopolies controlling the...
The Cook County News-Herald, a weekly newspaper of Grand Marais, Minn., was on the brink of closure and almost did not make it to its 130th anniversary. The internet has demolished the advertisement-driven business model of newspapers, with small town papers being hit...
Freedom of speech is so important in this country that it’s written in the First Amendment. Whether it’s because the founders thought that they had to protect speech from political or government persecution above all other rights or just because it was the first thing...
I switched from my job to a new newspaper in Bangladesh in July 2019. For the new one, it was a great challenge because the print newspaper readership was slumping. Then, COVID-19 dealt another blow to the newspaper industry in my country, as most newspapers saw sharp...
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...
On Oct. 4, 2020, a viral video showed Nigerian police officers assaulting two men, dragging them out of a hotel and killing one. These officers were members of a special unit of the police force, the anti-robbery squad, also called SARS. The men were probably not...