Predictable tragedies and how (not to) prevent them
“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...
What’s good about fake news
In my first week as a World Press Institute fellow, I found myself at a discussion over the U.S. presidential election and journalism in the age of Trump. The term “fake news” has become widely used especially after Donald Trump’s first press conference as...
Huge influx of hungry Venezuelans challenges Brazil’s responsibility
After decades of mainly exporting immigrants, Brazil is becoming a major receiver. And the country’s response has been hostile, as shown in recent actions by the government and by civilians against arrivers from Venezuela, a country distressed by humanitarian...
You can’t always get what you want
The legend goes that in the summer of 1964, a day after The Rolling Stones had played a one-night concert in Excelsior, Minn., a still unknown Mick Jagger went into a local drugstore looking for medicine to treat a sore throat. That was the fourth show of the first...
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