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Student journalists end school year embracing opportunity but also balancing reality of coronavirus pandemic

May 26, 2020 by Kamrin Baker

In September of 2019, there was a small mumps outbreak at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. I had just started my term as editor-in-chief of The Gateway newspaper, and I thought it would be fortuitous to buy a large bottle of hand sanitizer for the newsroom. I wrote a little note with scripted handwriting: “don’t get the mumps!”  In the first week of March 2020, I … [Read more...] about Student journalists end school year embracing opportunity but also balancing reality of coronavirus pandemic

Small alternative publications fight for survival in the midst of global pandemic

April 21, 2020 by Kamrin Baker

In early March, Salvador Robles, associate publisher of Omaha’s The Reader, was planning for just the kind of story that would resonate with the alt-monthly’s readers: the hunt for the perfect margarita. But after the coronavirus outbreak, the story turned into an article on how to make margaritas at home. The publication’s film writer produced a Netflix listicle instead of … [Read more...] about Small alternative publications fight for survival in the midst of global pandemic

Nebraska women push for work-life balance in newsroom, media jobs

January 28, 2020 by Kamrin Baker

When longtime Omaha World-Herald reporter Cindy Gonzalez had her first child in 1991, her water broke in the newsroom On deadline, she finished the story after she got to the hospital. In a parallel scenario in 2015, former Omaha World-Herald copy editor Courtney Pitts Mattern would finish her assignments during health emergencies even when she knew she needed to see a … [Read more...] about Nebraska women push for work-life balance in newsroom, media jobs

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