By Evan Weiner One of the reasons the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team has a large regional following was the team’s broadcasts on KMOX, which was and is a clear channel station which means at night the signal did not… Read More ›
Media
The Pandemic: Turning Cracks into Canyons for Local News
By Michael Shapiro It’s no secret. Local news has been on shaky ground for some time now — having disappeared entirely in some communities. The shift in how people consume information has led to a change in the economics of… Read More ›
Give more airtime to experts, less to pundits and politicians
By Sean Mickey One of the first things you learn in journalism is to give your reader both sides of the story. But it’s also important to not let a narrative trump the facts. When a media outlet shows something… Read More ›
A media company becomes the story
By Ty Johnson COVID-19 has forced businesses across the world to face new challenges. In the United States, businesses deemed essential are able to stay open, but certainly not under normal conditions. Businesses deemed non-essential cannot operate at all. One… Read More ›
An interview, a clarification and a question
By Richard Lee At Monday’s White House press briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reacted angrily to a question from CBS reporter Paula Reid. Fauci had just clarified remarks he made a… Read More ›
Too few journalists are covering the most important story of their lifetimes
By Denny Wilkins Once upon time, in the days before the consolidation of news company ownership into the sell-the-assets-off-fast hands of hedge funds, the United States had more than 55,000 journalists toiling in daily print newsrooms. Today only half of… Read More ›
Journalists do not make us fear, they make us aware
By Pauline W. Hoffmann These last several weeks have put a burden on many sectors of society from hourly workers who will struggle to provide for families to health care workers who battle on the front lines of the pandemic…. 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 ›
Local news is essential infrastructure
By Michael Shapiro Many of us never conceived of the world in which we are living today — a world under siege from a global pandemic. In times of profound fear and uncertainty, misinformation can run rampant. Having accurate information… Read More ›
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