Opinion: Chicago adjunct strike provides student journalists with an invaluable reporting lesson
The part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago, where I teach journalism, was on strike for seven weeks, protesting cost-cutting decisions……
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With Giuliani case damage award, poll-workers’ defamation charges shift to St. Louis
A Washington, D.C. jury’s decision that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani must pay two former Georgia poll workers $148……
Alden and other venture capitalists threaten journalism’s role in democracy
From “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy” by Margot Susca. Copyright 2024 by the……
The Davids fighting Goliath in West Virginia
A feisty team of lawyers and tenants in Appalchian mobile home parks are fighting Alden’s owners — and sometimes, they’re……
Newspapers are vanishing, leaving democracy at risk
Newspapers are dying. Young people aren’t reading them. Predatory hedge funds are buying them up, laying off reporters, milking them……