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A better quality of data on Muslim Americans
Muslim Americans are more likely to marry outside their faith tradition than Protestants. A third of the members of this religious community live at or below the poverty line. Seventy-five percent were registered to vote in 2018. About four in ten Muslim American children reported experiences of bullying because of their faith, sometimes at the...
It’s time to rethink coverage of school shootings
Schoolhouses are becoming fortresses equipped with surveillance cameras and bulletproof desks, with teachers serving double duty as armed guards. Children are being pushed into terrifying drills to prepare for the possibility of a mass shooting that is statistically unlikely. Some of those trends may be fueled in part by sensational coverage of such violence. And...
How YouTube reactionaries are breaking the news media
Late last month, Virginia legislators tried to expand abortion access with a long-shot bill—HB 2491—that would strike down two medically-unnecessary restrictions. But headlines didn’t stay focused on the facts for long: mainstream media outlets soon found themselves tasked instead with debunking claims that the legislation would legalize infanticide. Following a blundered January 31 radio interview...
Student journalists hold power to account, with fewer protections
Last July, Harley Duncan, editor in chief of the University of North Alabama’s Flor-Ala newspaper learned that the school’s vice president of student affairs had resigned, and a professor had been banned from the college campus. Duncan filed a FOIA request for the two employees’ personnel records to determine the reasons behind their departures; when...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette guild releases eyewitness accounts of publisher John Robinson Block’s “erratic, menacing and disturbing conduct” in the newsroom: https://t.co/m0Hnq4mYj1
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) February 13, 2019NEW: More than 300 @latimes journalists oppose the company’s proposal on intellectual property, which would mark a new low in the media industry and could limit our staff’s long-standing literary and creative contributions. Read our open letter here: https://t.co/YJCIXHoLhi
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“I’m not going to be bullied on this and stand up for myself. That’s what we try to teach our kids to do when bullies are coming after them. … I’m not going to cower” https://t.co/sjh1WOuWS0 pic.twitter.com/Wt5RTwbBEyJill Abramson tells us that "the language is too close in some cases and should have been cited as quotations in the text."https://t.co/tmCnbRKh8Q
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