Media News, Midwest
News Analysis: Rural journalism needs more study, broader understanding
The state of rural journalism in the United States is parlous. Just how parlous is hard to tell. Journalism.
Media News, Midwest
Exit essay: a reflection on more than 50 years of media coverage in the Illinois statehouse
Editor’s Note: This is an abridged version of Simon Review Paper #61, first published by the Paul Simon Public.
Opinion
Libel decision shut down segregationists clinging to Jim Crow
To understand why New York Times v. Sullivan is one of the great First Amendment victories of the past.
News, Opinion
Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters
CHICAGO – Adam Rhodes, the social justice reporter for the Reader, said the importance of re-examining how we cover.
Media
The New York Times gets all politics right. Or wrong.
By GEORGE SALAMON / The headline on p. A1 of the June 16 New York Times read: “Population Shifts Turning All Politics National.” The story by Ashley Parker and Jonathan Martin drew that conclusion from the results of two elections, the one in Virginia that cost Eric Cantor his position as majority leader in the House and one in Mississippi that could unseat another Republican leader, Senator Thad Cochran. The story proposed that “the axiom that ‘all politics is local’ is increasingly anachronistic.” But it’s just this axiom that inspired Dave Carr’s column on the same day.