St. Louis Media Hall of Fame inductees
The following people will be inducted into the television portion of the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame June 8……
Category: Media News
Indiana Supreme Court ruling getting little coverage from Indiana press
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that unlawful entry by police into a person’s home is fine. Not only……
Liberty Tree seminar: Media accountability in the digital age?
The School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale hosted a seminar on April 12 to focus on journalism ethics and First Amendment issues, funded by a grant from Liberty Tree. In two panels, journalists, lawyers and professors talked to students and each other about whether the traditional tools of media accountability are up to the new challenges of the digital media age. GJR is happy to present video of both sessions.
Protess and Northwestern keep battling
In 2009, when a prosecutor went to court to force David Protess to release information compiled by journalism students working on his famous Innocence Project, Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism came to the defense of the popular, pugnacious professor. After all, Protess had made the school famous for having helped free 12 men who had been wrongfully convicted, including five from death row.
Let Them Eat Cheese: Media Weigh in on Wisconsin’s Labor War
News media in Wisconsin take for granted that the state capital city of Madison will be the site of medium-sized protests, late-night legislative antics and accusations of gubernatorial power grabs. While many of those fights over the last few decades were over substantive issues, it was still not the type of doings that energizes large crowds.
The dynamic and sometimes tragic Vietnam War protests in Madison that many older reporters had covered early in their career – and middle-aged reporters studied in school – had a “remember when” air to them. Hearing about the Vietnam era in 2010 was like hearing about the Great Depression in 1970. You got the importance, but looked for current relevance.