journalism

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• SOURCE: Columbia Post and Courier
  2/16/2021
  

  Veteran Journalist Donates Trove of Civil Rights-Era Research to University of South Carolina

  “I think that’s what I find amazing. Even in terms of the curriculum in the state of South Carolina, that those kind of moments are not necessarily common knowledge, where you have an Orangeburg Massacre,” Crump said. “No pun intended, it’s almost like an educational blackout.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/14/2021
  

  James Ridgeway, Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalist, Dies at 84

  The journalist James Ridgeway exposed malfeasance by corporate polluters and politicians, but dedicated his greatest energy to his last crusade, to end the practice of solitary confinement in prisons. 

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• 2/7/2020
  

  Unforgettable Images, and Something New in TV News

  by Ron Steinman

  A month past the Capitol Riots, a veteran television news journalist observes that the coverage of the chaotic protest and breach of the Capitol relied on something new: masses of journalists and citizens (including the rioters) recording video on their phones where TV cameras couldn't operate, forming a rich and important composite of the day's events. 

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• 1/31/2021
  

  A Devil’s Dozen of the Most Important Religion Stories of 2020

  by Ed Simon

  Many people would like to leave 2020 behind. HNN Contributing Editor Ed Simon compiles, for those readers ready for a distanced reflection on a year that may have tested faith, a roundup of the best stories at the intersection of religion and history. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/2021
  

  Tom Lankford, 85, Dies; Southern Journalist With Divided Loyalties

  Tom Lankford took many iconic photographs in Birmingham that publicized the cause of Civil Rights protestors. But he worked behind the scenes to cultivate relationships with the city's notorious Bull Connor to buttress the reputation of the police force while working with his publisher to squelch local demands for change that threatened the business community.

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• 1/17/2021
  

  The Free Press and Democracy in a "Murder the Media" Age

  by Wendy Melillo

  Journalism as a profession needs to embrace its historical role as a guardian of democracy and refuse to let objectivity work as a shield for authoritarianism; authoritarians won't accept a free press anyway.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/2/2020
  

  Deb Price, First Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Gay Life, Dies at 62

  Deb Price's columns were at the forefront of gay and lesbian journalists working openly in the news media and news outlets covering issues concerning LGBTQ Americans and communities with depth and nuance.

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• SOURCE: Newsday
  11/29/2020
  

  Social Media 'Misinformation' Endangers Democracy, Historians Say

  Historians Peniel Joseph and Karl Jacoby, along with media scholar Howard Schnieder, assess the way that strategic misinformation on social media has exploited racial divisions in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/29/2020
  

  The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth

  New Yorker editor David Remnick writes that while Trump is not the first president to battle the media, his apparent belief that the press exists as his public relations agency--and anger that it doesn't work that way--are leading him to attack a fundamental institution of society with deadly consequences.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/9/2020
  

  Cienfuegos Must also Answer for the Apatzingán Massacre

  by Laura Castellanos

  The former Secretary of National Defense for Mexico has been arrested on charges related to drug trafficking. He must face accountability for overseeing a security regime that perpetrated coordinated violence against journalists and civilians. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/8/2020
  

  Seymour Topping, Former Times Journalist and Eyewitness to History, Dies at 98

  "For Mr. Topping, known universally to colleagues as Top, the story was always about more than the day’s news developments, intriguing as they might be. It was about their historical significance, too."

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• SOURCE: RetroReport
  11/5/2020
  

  Inside Retro Report's Fact Checking Process

  Joe Hogan, head of fact-checking at Retro Report, explains why fact-checking is a needed skill today.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/5/2020
  

  President Trump’s False Claims about Election Fraud are Dangerous

  by Sid Bedingfield

  Elected officials' use of the media to claim election fraud has resulted in violence in the past; the news media must take responsibility to avoid fanning the flames. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/26/2020
  

  What Do Foreign Correspondents Think of the U.S.?

  Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race—and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, But that’s Bad for Democracy

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  Election night 2020 promises to test whether the media has learned from failures of the past. 

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• SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review
  10/26/2020
  

  Q&A: Historian Rick Perlstein on Media ‘Bothsidesism,’ and Why 2020 Definitely Isn’t 1968

  Rick Perlstein has been reluctant to do media appearances, perceiving that journalists may use historical analogy as a shortcut to investigating and explaining the present. He discusses his thoughts on history and the media with CJR. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/28/2020
  

  The 1619 Project and Uses and Abuses of History

  by Stephen Mintz

  By focusing on narrow questions of fact and interpretive claims in the project in an effort to discredit it, critics of the 1619 Project have mostly failed to engage with big questions about how to do history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/2020
  

  New York Times, CNN Sullied By ‘Anonymous’ Charade

  by Eric Wemple

  Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.

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• SOURCE: Untapped New York
  10/19/2020
  

  New PBS Documentary on New York Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell

  Walter Winchell's gossip-driven approach to the news made him famous; his fame helped publicize the dangers of Nazism and overcome American isolationism before World War II. A new PBS documentary considers his career and legacy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/20/2020
  

  "The Atlantic" and the Limits of Reasonableness

  A new collection of writing from the venerable magazine highlights the struggles of rational argument and civil discourse in the age of Donald Trump.