Should journalists be allowed to protest? A legendary news organization tries to address that issue NPR unveiled a new ethics policy that cracks open the door to allow journalists more freedom in their civic lives away from work. July 30, 2021 Tom Jones
Journalists share the stories behind their stories with virtual storytelling collective Local Live(s) ‘People who didn’t care about news … were staying late after the show to buy beers for the journalists,’ Local Live(s) co-founder said. July 27, 2021 Amaris Castillo
Sarah Huckabee Sanders plays politics with COVID in a guest column for The Democrat-Gazette But maybe anything that encourages someone to get the vaccine could be viewed as positive. July 26, 2021 Tom Jones
Governments created an informational black hole for Indigenous communities and COVID-19 How did the pandemic affect the 576 tribal nations across the US? Due to a lack of government transparency, we may never know. July 23, 2021 Tristan Ahtone
You can’t be a truth-seeker if you’re also a liar Trump’s claim that he won the 2020 election is one lie in a culture of falsehood. Media ethics students learn they, too, often fail at truth-telling. July 22, 2021 Michael Bugeja
Trump author Michael Wolff and CNN host Brian Stelter got into it over the media The two had a back-and-forth about Fox and Rupert Murdoch and then Wolff sounded off on the media, including Stelter. July 19, 2021 Tom Jones
Defamation was considered a well-settled area of law. Then came social media. Recent dissents by two Supreme Court justices make reconsideration of New York Times v. Sullivan look like a real possibility. July 9, 2021 Jaden Edison
UFOs, once consigned to conspiracy theories, have landed in mainstream American journalism How do journalists balance the offbeat nature of the subject — with its decades of conspiracies and skeptics — with their credibility? July 9, 2021 Amaris Castillo
She was an intelligence analyst at the CIA. Now she writes about the dangers of ‘fake news.’ After seeing a surge in disinformation during the 2016 election, Cindy Otis left the agency to educate Americans on how to be more discerning. July 1, 2021 Alan C. Miller
US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media, Reuters Institute report finds Just 29% of people surveyed in the U.S. said they trust the news, compared to 45% in Canada and 54% in Brazil. June 24, 2021 Rick Edmonds
