Coping with PTSD as a journalist in an unrelenting news cycle
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...
Abortion debate in the eyes of an abortion clinic escort in Minnesota
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,...
Minnesota’s Secretary of State says biggest challenge to American democracy is ‘disinformation’
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...
How one tiny American town is battling climate change
@bridgerollo #minnesota #grandmarais #climatechange #uspolitics #worldpressinstitute ♬ original sound - Bridget Rollason The remote Minnesotan community of Grand Marais is feeling the effects of climate change. Last year two teenagers pushed the council to declare a...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
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In @finnowl's first #WPIFellowship blog post, he wonders if the defamation case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems will drag down other media, too. Minnesota academics and journalists weigh in:
https://worldpressinstitute.org/will-the-landmark-case-against-fox-news-drag-down-other-media-too/
Check out my latest @GlobalMinnesota podcast episode w/ @Fawzeyah & @SaqibTanveer of this year's @worldpressinst International Fellows! Hear about the challenges of conducting journalism and speaking truth to power in Nigeria and Pakistan.
https://www.globalminnesota.org/event/podcast-episode-global-journalism-with-world-press-institute-fellows/