Stop pretending media trust issue is only a problem for national news outlets
A sweeping new Pew Center report that examines trust in the media confirmed an uneasy truth that we can no……
Author: Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner is the editor of Gateway Journalism Review. She is a journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago and faculty advisor to the Columbia Chronicle.
‘Quiet rooms’ investigation is a call to action for community news outlets
Monica Seals didn’t waste time. Within 24 hours after the nonprofit ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune published an investigation……
News business is about death and imagination
I want to tell you a story about covering Congress in 2002 that doesn’t feel that long ago but my……
Community news outlets should use inclusive language when covering immigration
A recent study by the nonprofit media and culture group Define American and the MIT Center for Civic Media found……
Opinion: Mike Wallace documentary reminds us of importance, power of TV journalism
For many of us who have spent our careers in print journalism, it’s easy (though grossly unfair) to blame TV……