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9/11: How Journalists Told the Story

By Jandoli Institute on September 10, 2026

If you were a journalist on 9/11, it didn’t matter where you were or what your beat was, you found a way to tell the story.

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A brief period of political civility followed the 9/11 attacks

By Jandoli Institute on September 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

For a few weeks in the fall of 2001, Americans put aside their differences and came together,
A very different type of president opens the Theodore Roosevelt Library

By Jandoli Institute on July 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

Donald Trump wants to be on Mount Rushmore. Teddy Roosevelt already is there in stone.
Is Niagara Falls more popular than the Great Wall and the Great Pyramids?

By Jandoli Institute on June 23, 2026 • ( 0 )

Does Niagara Falls attract more tourists than either the Great Wall of China or the Great Pyramids in Egypt?
The new term may be ‘affordability,’ but it’s ‘still the economy, stupid’

By Jandoli Institute on June 23, 2026 • ( 0 )

Republican Bruce Blakeman and Democrat Kathy Hochul are focusing on economic issues in their campaigns for governor of New York.
Students in PolitiFact workshop hold public officials accountable

By Jandoli Institute on June 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

Holding public officials accountable through rigorous fact-checking is vital to our democracy.
Bob Dylan and the inverted pyramid

By Jandoli Institute on May 24, 2026 • ( 1 )

The Bob Dylan song that folllowed the standard format of a news story.
If you call my college roommate…

By Jandoli Institute on March 10, 2026 • ( 0 )

On the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, here are some thoughts about today’s phone usage.
Is a speech still the best way to deliver the State of the Union?

By Jandoli Institute on February 21, 2026 • ( 0 )

State of the Union addresses have become elaborate and sophisticated events. Is all the fanfare needed?
The treason of the clerics

By Jandoli Institute on February 15, 2026 • ( 0 )

A lifetime academic explains why he is dismayed by today’s higher education leaders.
Jandoli Institute begins another PolitiFact workshop

By Jandoli Institute on February 13, 2026 • ( 0 )

St. Bonaventure University students are once again working with PolitiFact Chief Correspondent Louis Jacobson and Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee to check facts and write articles for PolitiFact.
Challenger explosion remains a vivid memory 40 years later

By Jandoli Institute on January 28, 2026 • ( 0 )

Jan. 28, 1986, was one of those days a journalist always remembers because it involved reporting a historic event — and in this instance an extremely tragic one.