Chicago media struggle to tell migrant stories as thousands surge into the city

Baffled travelers stepping off buses into an unknown city and life. Families huddled on police stations’ floors. Painful accounts of robberies and rapes, and of deaths in jungles and rivers – the price of escaping grim horrors. These and other stories told by the thousands of immigrants who have surged into Chicago in recent months,…

Exclusive: Hearing scheduled in Gateway Pundit defamation case

A hearing that could either strengthen or upend the defamation case by two Georgia poll workers against The Gateway Pundit, the far-right website operated by St. Louisan Jim Hoft, is scheduled for July 13 in St. Louis Circuit Court.   St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer is set to hear the plaintiffs’ request to dismiss a…

In smaller newsrooms, some sports reporters are covering 10 sports at once

On New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Kansas State Wildcats football fell to the world-renowned Alabama Crimson Tide, 45-20 in the Sugar Bowl. Kansas State finished a historic season for the program, taking me to the press boxes of the Superdome in New Orleans and AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for the Big 12 Championship…

Student journalists lose access to TikTok in states where the video sharing app is restricted, banned

The Prospector, the student newspaper of the University of Texas at El Paso, abandoned its TikTok account earlier this year after the state’s TIkTok ban began to take effect.  In December 2022, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agency leaders to immediately ban employees from downloading or using TikTok on any government-issued devices. That…

U.S. lags other nations in regulating AI

The surge in use and chatter around artificial intelligence after ChatGPT’s release six months ago has increased awareness and concern of the technology’s rapid progress. Now, the United States government faces the question of how to regulate this potentially uncontrollable technology—something it has fallen behind on before. AI innovators and experts Sam Altman, the chief executive…