By Scott Lambert >> While the national press debates President Trump’s DEI initiatives at colleges and universities across the country, college newspapers find themselves at the forefront during a tumultuous time. The Student Press Law Center issued a special media alert April 4 for student media covering these events. “At this moment, it is essential
By Don Corrigan >> In an age of digital media, podcasts and streaming, the good-old-days of community radio seem to be at an end – not with a bang or even a whimper. It’s more about lawyers conversing in bankruptcy court. In St. Louis, KDHX is deep in the red and close to pulling the
By Robert Koenig and Mary Ellen Noonan Koenig >> After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the United States – in addition to basing thousands of troops there – built dozens of “America House” cultural centers to help Germans learn about America. And when the Soviets blockaded Berlin in 1948-49, the U.S. sent thousands of flights
By William Schwartz >> In late January, the University of Texas at Dallas removed its newspaper stands in an effort to kill The Mercury, the university’s student newspaper following protracted attempts to attack the newspaper’s editorial line by removing its editor-in-chief, Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez. The Mercury is back, in a sense. It’s now known as
By Ted Gest >> In the fast-paced media environment of 2025, how has news coverage of the courts evolved since the classic portrayal of “The Front Page”? The Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur drama in the 1920s was set in the press room of Chicago’s criminal courts building, where cigar-chomping, card-playing reporters phoned in sensational stories about
