NORMAL, Illinois – Each week, John Plevka sits down with his blue gel pen and critiques the weekly edition of The Vidette. It used to be daily. He felt like it found its sweet spot in 2015, when financial realities forced the paper to go down to twice weekly, before the screws tightened in August 2019 and it became a weekly. On April 27, the last physical edition of the … [Read more...] about The Vidette, a standard-bearer of student journalism, stops presses
Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters
CHICAGO – Adam Rhodes, the social justice reporter for the Reader, said the importance of re-examining how we cover anti-LGBTQ groups is matched by a reckoning with how we cover the gay community. “The media industry has just started to give a shit about trans people,” he said. “We’ve been trained to not care about them.” The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 70 … [Read more...] about Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters
Pseudo news outlets push false claims around election
On Nov. 4, the day after the election, the Milwaukee City Wire inaccurately reported that more votes were cast in seven wards in the city than there were registered voters. Right-wing pundits and conspiracy theorists rushed to tweet the story, and retweet those tweets. Fox’s Sean Hannity weighed in. Some down-the-middle journalists also followed suit. But USA Today found the … [Read more...] about Pseudo news outlets push false claims around election