The first fact-checking article produced by St. Bonaventure University journalism students in a special workshop was posted by PolitiFact New York on April 23. Michael Hogan and Sean Mickey authored the article, which examined a comment Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren… Read More ›
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Andrew Cuomo may have a place in Washington, but it is not the Oval Office
By Richard Lee Andrew Cuomo’s leadership throughout the coronavirus crisis has earned the New York governor a place in the national spotlight. At one time, #PresidentCuomo was trending on Twitter. He has been mentioned as a possible running mate — and… Read More ›
What Are Sports Writers Writing About Without Sports?
By Bryan Bizzaro During this time of pandemic due to COVID-19 pandemic, the sports world has come to a screeching halt. Every major sports league in the United States has gone into a hiatus. With this happening, it would seem… Read More ›
COVID-19 pandemic illustrates New York’s upstate/downstate split
By Samantha Burgio At schools in New York full of students from different parts of the state and different states altogether, conversations and debates of “upstate New York vs. downstate New York” are never scarce. People who do not know… Read More ›
Sports will play a big part in our nation’s return to normalcy
By Patrick Giblin Similarly, on Oct. 30, 2001, about a month and a half after 9/11, the New York Yankees were hosts to the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 of the World Series, the first game of the series… Read More ›
Leveraging the power of fact checking
By David Kassnoff This week brought news of mandatory furloughs of a week or more at many daily newspapers. This translates to fewer editors, reporters, news photographers, and content coaches. It’s easy to blame the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic… Read More ›
Life as a student-journalist during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Madeline Edwards When I covered a story for SBU-TV about the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in early February, I never thought the world would turn into what it is now. In a month’s time the coronavirus went from being… Read More ›
‘This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco…’
By Richard Lee The future David Byrne envisioned in the Talking Heads’ 1979 song “Life During Wartime” seems very real today amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Jim Beviglia wrote in American Songwriter: “The urgency and immediacy of the band’s performance… Read More ›
How Super Tuesday Part III ended the Democratic primary contest
By Joe Ceraulo For the third straight week, a Tuesday filled with primary elections came up big for former Vice President Joe Biden. Three states (Arizona, Florida and Illinois) held primary elections on Tuesday, March 17, after Ohio opted to… Read More ›
COVID-19 pandemic didn’t diminish voter turnout in March 17 primaries
By Julia Schneider Online school, take-out only restaurants, no sports, yet somehow the primaries in three states still prevailed. Following the precedent set by the flu pandemic of 1918 and World War II, voters in Illinois, Florida and Arizona defied… Read More ›