Why is journalism important?R. Marine
The Newseum is a successor of the Freedom Forum's old Newseum in Rosslyn, Virginia, which closed more than six years ago. According to Paul Sparrow, a Newseum vice president, their mission is to help the public understand how important a free press is to a functioning democracy. The museum...
How is math used in journalism? How did investigative journalism start? How is journalism different from news? How are computers used in journalism? How can consumers benefit from ethical digital journalism? Is investigative journalism important to democracy?
A free and independent press is one of the five crucial freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Journalism helps sustain an informed public, empowers individuals, and invigorates democracy by holding power to account, making the watchdog role of the press a cornerst...
The dictate is not exclusive to journalism; it’s shared by prosecutors, politicians and anyone who’s ever given a PowerPoint presentation about anything. This week,Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and ...
The research director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy talks about growing up in an environment of aggressive scepticism, and then battling an academic culture that can’t handle it
AP VoteCast is a comprehensive survey of both voters and nonvoters that aims to tell the story behind the election results.
entertainment. It is an exposition of the underside of American democracy created by people “in the know.” Some would describe it as a case of “predictive programming” where the dark deeds of the elite are revealed to the world (e.g., assassinations perpetrated by M...
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This is certainly a moment. But what does — and should — that moment mean? The answer needs to start with acknowledgment of the fact that something has gone very wrong. Over the past four decades, and especially in the US, the most important country of all, we have observed an unholy...