After years of covering crime as a television journalist, ABC Wisconsin reporter Sarah Thamer found herself struggling to get out of bed and go to work. The tipping point came after someone tried to run her over on live TV in 2020. She was covering the protests that...
Last June marked a turn in the abortion rights debate in the United States, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision from 1973 that protected a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. In response to the court decision, in January,...
What can local media offer that mainstream outlets cannot? According to Joe Friedrichs, a radio news presenter from WTIP Community Radio in Grand Marais, Minn., local media has a distinct advantage over national media companies because they are embedded in the...
U.S. democracy faces, a number of threats and challenges, but, the most serious one is “disinformation,” said Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon. The Minnesotan politician shared his views with this year’s journalist fellows of the World Press Institute on a...
Since the Feb. 24, 2022, I cannot remember one single day where the ongoing war in Ukraine did not cross my mind. It was no surprise to me to hear again about Ukraine, even in Minneapolis, where I met with Pavel Gavrilyuk, a Ukrainian-born professor of Theology at St....
The defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News might open a Pandora’s box of media scrutiny in the United States. Academics fear it could start new lawsuits calling other media organizations’ integrity and editorial decision-making processes into question. At first...