The return of partisan journalism
In my home country, Finland, the great majority of newspapers are non-affiliated and independent. Party newspapers and reporters are a curiosity. That is why I have been surprised to notice how openly partisan many American journalists are. Some of them don’t seek...
How I met the Mooch
I had a run-in with ”the Mooch” recently. I spoke to former White House adviser Anthony Scaramucci outside an event of his in Austin, Texas, and, um, it got a bit awkward. When he learned I was from South Africa, the Mooch said sarcastically that he supposed things...Hey, where are you going with that post-truth in your hands?
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...
Cyberattacks: The biggest threat to the United States?
He is 20 years old. Since his childhood, computers have been the center of his life. He works in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, as a cybersecurity expert at a firm owned by an American company in Washington, D.C. “There is so much you can learn,” Kristiyan Boykov...
Two minutes to midnight
I grew up in a border town in Finland. The nearest Russian town, Svetogorsk, was only a few miles away from my home. Living so near to a gigantic and powerful neighbor was often unsettling. St. Petersburg was closer to us than our own capital Helsinki. Could the...
Our Board of Directors has decided to postpone the start of our next fellowship program.
WPI is strong and healthy and we are committed to holding our next fellowship program as soon as practical.
See our website for the full announcement.
https://worldpressinstitute.org/news/2020-world-press-institute-fellowship-program-postponed/
