The University of Missouri, on behalf of St. Louis Public Radio, is making an unprecedented legal claim of sovereign immunity in the defamation lawsuit filed against it by former general manager Tim Eby. Eby maintains he was defamed by stories quoting station employees accusing him of upholding “white supremacy.” The university’s legal filings describe the…
CarrieLynn Reinhard is a communication arts and sciences professor at Dominican University and an adviser to the school’s student newspaper, The Dominican Star. Following the release of The Star’s most recent print edition, Reinhard observed a student on the school’s River Forest, Illinois, campus gleefully showing her friend the front page, pointing out that it…
Before most college students in 2024 were born, the Pew Research Center was already reporting that young readers had turned away from newspapers. Older readers had not fully embraced online news yet in 2002. Only a quarter of them went to the internet for their news and then only three times a week, which now…
The bankruptcy filing last week by TGP Communications LLC, the company that does business as Gateway Pundit, is at the very least another handful of sand thrown into the gears of the two defamation cases against the far-right conspiracy-minded web site. At a minimum, the filing will give Jim Hoft, the St. Louisan who owns…
The headlines over the past several months speak for themselves. Layoffs were reported at NPR affiliates in Washington, D.C. Miami, Chicago, Boston and New York. Many others are facing similar challenges as budget deficits at large and smaller public radio stations bring financial challenges not seen since the Great Recession 15 years ago. An analysis…