Professor’s Press Pass Archive - Poynter

When student journalists make an impact

Barbara Allen — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 01:28:08 +0000

Issue overview On Aug. 28, reports of a shooter on campus rocked the University of North Carolina. Students, faculty and staff locked down for three hours on campus on the second Monday of the fall semester. One person was killed and another was later arrested and charged with his death. The day after the incident, […]

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Platforming death row inmates

Barbara Allen — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:01:43 +0000

Issue overview Read this story, “The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row” by Keri Blakinger from The New York Times Magazine and The Marshall Project, then answer the following questions. Discussion questions What was your initial reaction to the fact that an outlet as influential and powerful as The New York Times gave space […]

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‘Hitler tactics’ at a Kansas newspaper

Barbara Allen — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:44:57 +0000

Issue overview Poynter senior media writer Tom Jones closely followed recent events that unfolded at the Marion County Record, a family-owned newspaper with seven employees just north of Wichita, Kansas. Read his two pieces and then answer the questions below. A small town in Kansas is at the heart of a fight for press freedoms […]

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Advice for young journalists

Barbara Allen — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:07:17 +0000

Issue overview A recent X (formerly Twitter) thread from Detroit government reporter Dana Afana said, “The news industry is constantly facing changes, which are not as friendly to young journalists. What advice do you have for younger reporters who are trying to build their career but might be struggling in this environment? How do you […]

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X marks the spot where Twitter used to be

Barbara Allen — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:50:42 +0000

Issue overview In late July, Elon Musk officially announced that the company previously known as Twitter would now be called X. Please read a handful of the following headlines and answer the questions below. Twitter is now X. Here’s what that means. (CBS News) Musk explains why he’s rebranding Twitter to X: It’s not just […]

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Rumor has it

Barbara Allen — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 04:40:10 +0000

Issue overview Just as mis- and disinformation evolves and proliferates, so do tools to fight it. One such tool is RumorGuard, from the News Literacy Project. According to its website, “The News Literacy Project (NLP), a nonpartisan education nonprofit, is building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society, creating […]

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I would subscribe but …

Barbara Allen — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:38:34 +0000

To read Why news subscriptions feel like a burden to young people (Nieman Lab) Issue overview A recent Norwegian study that has been contemplated by journalists is “The burden of subscribing: How young people experience digital news subscriptions.” Simply put, this research, “analyzes how young non-paying news users experience digital news subscriptions in Norway.” A […]

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Caught in the act

Barbara Allen — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:02:07 +0000

Before class: Read: The bitter strike at Insider — longest ever in digital media — is over Read (and watch the video): Insider’s top editor caught tearing down union posters in NYC as strike drags on Issue overview On June 2, 2023, workers from the digital news group Insider went on a strike that lasted […]

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What to do with a murderer’s 35,000 words

Barbara Allen — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:55:47 +0000

Issue overview In 1995, The New York Times and The Washington Post each were mailed the so-called “manifesto” of the Unabomber, a then-unidentified terrorist who’d killed three people and hurt 23 others via mail bombs. The package of more than 55 pages of single-spaced, typewritten pages came with a threat — publish the enclosure in its […]

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Applying the ‘right to be forgotten’

Barbara Allen — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:52:12 +0000

Issue overview A recent column in the Chicago Sun-Times outlines the stories of people who want to the right to be forgotten: “The woman whose arrest was dismissed years ago but who still gets questioned about it regularly at work and in her community. The man who was acquitted but suspects the article about his […]

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