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‘It was super violent’: TV station covers quake as it pummels newsroom
“These things hit so fast,” Scott Jensen, the news content manager for KTVA in Anchorage, Alaska, says of the moment an earthquake struck his newsroom, last Friday morning. Jensen had been about to send out the morning note about the day’s slated stories at the five-year-old CBS-affiliated television station when the quake struck, just 7.45...
From a Myanmar jail, a children’s book about the power of journalism
In Myanmar, it used to be said that the best education could be found in prison, where intellectuals, artists, and journalists abounded. In 2011, when five decades of military rule came to an end, some in the country hoped those days were gone. But now, in a massive prison complex in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city,...
Journalists are rightly suspicious of ad tech. They also depend on it.
Imagine a young woman named Molly, working as an events coordinator in Chicago. During the planning of a daylong workshop, she and her colleagues have a good-natured groan about the post-lunch slowdown that always plagues these types of events. To jazz up the flow of conversation Molly decides to stock the room with candy. She...
Media plays into Trump’s narrative on migrant caravan
The tear gas had barely dissipated as LA Times reporter Cindy Carcamo walked through the Tijuana stadium. All around her a sea of tents, bustling with humanity at the heart of the “Migrant Crisis,” “Caravan Crisis,” and “Border Crisis” that dominated recent headlines, headlines that run afoul of leading immigration think-tank reports with titles like...
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