The Midwest is often referred to as “flyover country” by coastal elites who travel across the nation. It’s meant as a derogatory term to dismiss the states between New York and California. But a new digital newsletter from cleveland.com in Ohio is embracing the term ahead of the 2020 presidential election, naming itself “The Flyover”…
It was the end of a week that rocked the nation with reports of President Donald Trump’s alleged shakedown of a foreign leader, prompting the president to label the journalists who filed those reports “animals” and “scum.” But in the small (pop. 8,388) Missouri town of Boonville, residents were mingling amicably with journalists who had…
It’s almost hard to imagine. An island community of 13,000 in the Canadian waters of Lake Huron still supports two newspapers at a time when bigger American cities like Oakland and even comparable sized ones like Biddeford, Maine, have lost theirs. A recent front page of the The Manitoulin Expositor had stories about a drinking…
To all who have written the obituary for the value of newspaper endorsements, Chicago offers powerful evidence that it’s time to throw that false eulogy out the window. A record-setting 14 candidates crowded the ballot for mayor of Chicago earlier this year. Some had been running for months with little to show for it. On…
An upstart women-owned digital media platform that aims to reshape the narrative of black Chicago has been awarded an inaugural media and storytelling program grant from the Field Foundation of Illinois. The TRiiBE, launched in 2017 by two Northwestern University graduates, is one of the first recipients of a grant for “outlets that are taking…