It was a moment I will never forget and still can’t quite get over: looking into the eyes of a humpback whale and her calf. The calf seemed curious and swam over its mother to get a better look at me. Then, before my brain could barely process what was happening, the two swam away. I […]
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As a Nobel laureate and 2018 Time Magazine Person of the Year, Maria Ressa is one of the most formidable journalists of our time. In recent years, she has received 10 arrest warrants for her work exposing the corruption of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and was convicted of cyber libel. The news site she
In 2018, journalists Maddie Poore and Natalie Delgadillo were part of a team that revived the DCist — a digital news outlet that started as a blog in the early 2000s and covered politics, events, culture, and entertainment in the U.S. capital — when it was acquired by public radio station WAMU. But six years
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Last year, I was invited to attend The New York Times’ Adversarial Reporting Training, a four-day course designed to teach reporters how to stay safe in precarious situations. Known as ART School, the training takes place at a giant photo studio in Brooklyn’s bustling DUMBO neighborhood and includes lessons on conducting risk assessments, minimizing the
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Reporters pursued the president in a feeding frenzy. White House resistance didn’t deter them from pounding away, day after day, at his credibility. Critics, however, believed the issue to be hyped out of proportion. To them, parts of the media had abandoned their traditional neutrality for a misguided moral crusade to uphold the rule of
Until Feb. 24, 2022, The Village Ukraine was known as a city guide for Kyiv, the country’s capital. It published a mix of cultural reviews, lifestyle articles, fashion news, and updates about events around the city. But after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, music, art, and dining stories had to give way to coverage about
Bilingual radio stations have long been a place of community for the Latino diaspora in the United States. Now, it’s the forefront of Utah’s newest public radio experiment. The first Spanish-language radio waves in the United States were broadcast in the American Southwest in the 1920s as a way to distribute news among farmworkers. But
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Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian independent media outlets have faced intense censorship by the government. In March 2022, a few days after the war began, the government swiftly implemented a series of laws curtailing criticism of the Russian armed forces; questioning Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine is now a
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When Evan Gershkovich was freed, the journalism community exhaled. The Wall Street Journal reporter, detained for over a year on sham espionage charges, was released in a prisoner swap, ending a determined campaign symbolized by the “Free Evan Now” buttons pinned to the lapels and backpacks of half the journalists I know. It’s a start.
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