Ciencias de la comunicación

For more than 175 years, The Associated Press has provided a critical service by calling U.S. presidential elections. What began in the 1800’s with Pony Express riders collecting results on horseback, has grown into a network of thousands of stringers, researchers, reporters, analysts, editors, data journalists and race callers compiling voting results for races all across […]

“I want to become a journalist because I think it’s a job that makes the world aware of humanity’s serious problems,” I wrote in careful cursive letters for a middle school essay that my parents have kept to this day. “I could fight injustice in this world in my own way.”  Beyond the naïve and

“The Brazil Chronicles” (forthcoming from University of Missouri Press on Nov. 18, 2024) is a mix of memoir and reportage by Stephen G. Bloom, which recounts Rio de Janeiro’s vibrant history as a base for American expat reporters. Fed up with the political and economic turbulence of the 1970s, Bloom, like hundreds of contemporaries, relocated to

The story of the Pullman porters is a gift that is still giving. The Black men who worked on George Pullman’s elegant sleeping cars for the century after the Civil War first shared their inspiring narratives about rising from the rails to reshape their world. After I wrote a book about them, they said I had to write another

Gray-owned WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine is cutting some of its locally produced newscasts. WAGM announced the move last Thursday on social media. WAGM will be joining forces with WABI, it’s Gray Local Media Partner. WAGM and WABI will continue its mission of providing local news, weather and sports coverage. Effective 11/18,the team will bring…Gray-owned

Creative and digital transformation agency WongDoody, an Infosys company based in Seattle, has named former Monks global chief client officer Laura Davis to the newly created role of managing director, U.S. In addition, the expansion of WongDoody’s leadership team also includes bringing on Christian Golz as global head of immersive experiences, and Mariel Cunningham as…Creative

These yetis aren’t hiding in the Himalayas, they’re ice skating on the local pond and caroling through the neighborhood in a new campaign for alternative soda brand Olipop. While the goal in this scenario is to spread cheer, the giant lumbering beasts manage only to terrorize the townsfolk. It’s not until they shed the costumes…These

Minneapolis chief meteorologist Ian Leonard said his skin cancer has returned. In a blog, posted to the Fox owned station’s website, Leonard told viewers about the diagnosis. “Knock knock. Who’s there? Skin Cancer. Damn…” he wrote. “It seems my skin cancer journey is set to start again. It’s kinda like a punch in the gut…Minneapolis

Three years ago, the Facebook family of companies changed its name to Meta. The idea, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained, was to usher in a new era of the internet where people were “in the experience, not just looking at it,” he wrote in a letter at the time. “We call this the metaverse, and…Three

Today, the fan platform Fandom, a user-populated library of gaming and entertainment content, unveiled its new contextual targeting solution, Helix. The product uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to taxonomize Fandom’s 50 million pages of content, enabling the publisher to serve contextually relevant ads to users and unlock new, nonintuitive audiences for advertisers, according to…Today,