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‘Our House’ connects presidential campaigns and pandemics
By Richard Lee In Week 4’s paper and online panel discussion, Phillip G. Payne related how Warren G. Harding conducted a “front porch” campaign for the presidency in 1920. Rather than traveling around the country, Harding chose to campaign from… Read More ›
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Dylan’s ‘twenty pounds of headlines’ delivers a lesson
By Richard A. Lee Before the pandemic shut down our campus radio station, I was the host of a weekly program that mixed music and current events. Since I am a journalism professor, it’s not surprising that songs about the… Read More ›
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Media companies will get enormous bills to cover ‘NBA Bubble’
By Evan Weiner The financial state of both the newspaper and radio industries is not good. But the NBA wants journalists to pay a big price to report on life inside of the National Basketball Association’s bubble on the Walt… Read More ›
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Bucking the Trend: A Sustainable Model for Local News
By Michael Shapiro Trouble in the local news industry has been smoldering for some time. The Coronavirus pandemic came along and doused it with gasoline, accelerating consolidation, cutbacks in coverage, sharp declines in advertising and in some cases, the shuttering… Read More ›
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Are We Better Than This?
By Adam Jones-Kelley We’re better than this? Throughout this recent crisis, and through so many like it before, our leaders have assured us that “we’re better than this.” Data suggest otherwise. Stating a thing doesn’t make it so. The first… Read More ›
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Greg Mitchell book on Hiroshima arrives today
Greg Mitchell’s new book marking the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima arrives today. The book, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is published by The… Read More ›
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After the goldrush, a silver lining remains
By Richard Lee Finding a song to illustrate our second Media Across Disciplines essay of the summer is easy; finding the right song is a bit of a challenge. In the essay, Status Quo or Silver Lining? Environmental Changes in… Read More ›
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Sociology Profs See Greater Focus on Environment During Pandemic
Not all of the news emerging from the coronavirus pandemic is bleak, according to two faculty members of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at St. Bonaventure University. “Recent news has hinted at something of a shift, a move in… Read More ›
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Status Quo or Silver Lining? Environmental Changes in a Pandemic
“Life [now] is somewhat more complicated than it was in the Middle Ages, but in many ways it is so much the same — violent, terrifying, full of chaos and plague, murderers and thieves. So the acknowledgement that in the… Read More ›
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Would news organizations produce better journalism if they used the Socratic method?
Barry Gan (presenter), Professor, Department of Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University Lee Coppola, Retired Dean, Jandoli School of Communication, St. Bonaventure University Kevin Lerner, Assistant Professor of journalism, Marist College Charles Paolino, Former editor, Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, N.J.) and… Read More ›
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