journalism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/22/2020
  

  Why "White" Should be Capitalized, Too

  by Nell Irvin Painter

  A capitalized “White” challenges that freedom, by unmasking “Whiteness” as an American racial identity as historically important as “Blackness” — which it certainly is.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Barry Zorthian's War: The Pentagon and the Press in Vietnam

  by Ron Steinman

  A 1970 speech by Barry Zorthian, the Pentagon's chief public information officer in Vietnam, shows a thoughtful approach to balancing the rights of journalists with the need of the military to control information. That approach is missing in the era of "fake news" and open hostility by the administration for the press.

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• SOURCE: Letters From An American
  6/9/2020
  

  Letters From An American: June 8, 2020

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Among other topics, Professor Richardson weighs in on the New York Times editorial fiasco, arguing that Tom Cotton's op ed was too detached from fact to make any contribution to meaningful public debate. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/9/2020
  

  The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.

  by Wendi C. Thomas

  Wendi C. Thomas is a black journalist who has covered police in Memphis. One officer admitted to spying on her. She’s on a long list of prominent black journalists and activists who have been subjected to police surveillance over decades.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  William Small, Who Made CBS Washington Bureau a TV News Powerhouse, Dies at 93

  William Small built CBS News into a top journalistic organization that covered the biggest stories of the 1960s and 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/25/2020
  

  How Baseball Players Became Celebrities

  Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of sports, brought stardom to America’s pastime.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/16/2020
  

  Ida Taught Me

  by Koritha Mitchell

  As the United States seems determined to repeat the horrors of the last turn of the century, I remain grateful for Wells’s example. Here is just some of what she taught me.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/7/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Won the Pulitzer. Here’s Why that Matters.

  by Sarah L. Silkey

  President Trump continues the long history of trying to delegitimize black women journalists.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/2020
  

  The Country has been Through a Draining, News-Packed April Before

  by Christopher B. Daly

  By the end of April 1945, the institutions of American journalism generally met the challenges of an overwhelming torrent of news and helped other American institutions manage military, political and economic transition.

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  5/4/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer

  Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2020
  

  The New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News Win Pulitzer Prizes

  The award for commentary went to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her centerpiece essay for the Times's much-discussed 1619 project. 

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• The Truth about the Five O’ Clock Follies

  by Ron Steinman

  Ron Steinman covered the notorious "Five O'Clock Follies" press conferences held by American military leadership in Saigon, and warns against comparing them to the Trump administration's daily Coronavirus briefings. 

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• SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
  4/27/2020
  

  As Campaign 2020 Shifts into High Gear, Trump’s Defamation Suits Pose a Chilling Prospect for the Press

  Although the 1964 Times v. Sullivan ruling makes it unlikely Trump would win a libel suit against a media outlet, the adminstration wants to break the historical relationship between the press and public figures.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/2020
  

  He Risked His Life Photographing the 1961 Freedom Riders. Theodore Gaffney Just Died from the Coronavirus at 92.

  Theodore Gaffney eagerly signed up for an assignment where he found himself risking his life and documenting one of the most tumultuous 48 hours in civil rights history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Decoded
  4/18/2020
  

  Feldstein's Deplorable Review

  by John O'Connor

  John O'Connor offers a rebuttal to Mark Feldstein's criticism of his new book Postgate.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  4/18/2020
  

  How The Spanish Flu of 1918-20 was Largely Forgotten

  The Economist under-reported the pandemic. Many victims were counted among the dead of the first world war.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  4/13/2020
  

  Reporting on the World Between the Wars

  Historian Nancy F. Cott tells the story of the interwar period through the lives of four American foreign correspondents.

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• SOURCE: Freedom Forum
  4/2/2020
  

  "Be Nice" Is Not Needed During Crisis — But A Free Press Is

  “Be nice” — two words not found anywhere among the 45 words of the First Amendment.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  3/30/2020
  

  Conservative Critics of Trump’s Coronavirus Conduct

  by Walter G. Moss

  When it comes to criticizing the behavior of Donald Trump, many of the leading conservative critics have been spot on.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  3/30/2020
  

  Helen Hunt Brings Trailblazing War Journalist to Life in "World On Fire"

  “I remember reading that she called her paper the next day and held the phone out the window [so they could hear the gunfire and chaos] and said, ‘It’s happening right now!'”