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Jackie Spinner is the editor of Gateway Journalism Review (gatewayjr.org) and an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago. Send story tips to jspinner@colum.edu.
Some of our readers, or at the very least, some of our community members, participated in the rally and then charged the Capitol. Some simply went to Washington, convinced that the election was stolen. ...
This isn’t and shouldn’t be about politics. This is about health reporting and science, and if we don’t have dedicated health reporters — most local news outlets do not, then we ...
The highest early youth turnout was in the battleground states of Michigan, Texas, Minnesota and Florida. (It’s down in Pennsylvania.) This creates an incredible opportunity for us to make the case ...
Colleges and universities have become the new pandemic hot spots across the country. A New York Times study of more than 1,600 American colleges and universities — including every four-year public ...
A few days ago, a former elementary school classmate of mine shared a viral post on Facebook about how Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was going to raise taxes for middle income families by 25%. I ...
That makes it challenging to cover the coronavirus story, particularly when many of our readers are making decisions based on politics. We can’t be divorced from the actual experiences of our ...
We are in the midst of a racial reckoning in our country that is more visible in some places than others, but in all places, it is long overdue, including in our newsrooms.
But during a recent fundraiser to try to keep his arts news venture running during the pandemic, Velásquez was shaken by how little people were willing to pay to support local news.
Most will not need to get paid if their college or university offers internship credit. You’ll have to take on a bit of paperwork in exchange. But I know many of my students willingly would work ...
Mark Busch hasn’t been able to do that. The photo editor for the DeKalb Daily Chronicle in northern Illinois is still going out to document the coronavirus pandemic, including a recent assignment ...
We don’t often hear from readers at the magazine where I’m editor. The majority of our readers at Gateway Journalism Review are educators, reporters and editors. Our coverage — and our ...
In the hours after Iran attacked two Iraqi military bases that housed U.S. troops early this year, social media predictably was rampant with rumors. Old and doctored photos surfaced, claiming to show the ...
A sweeping new Pew Center report that examines trust in the media confirmed an uneasy truth that we can no longer afford to ignore. It’s not just that our readers don’t trust us. They think ...
The fallout was immediate. Within 24 hours after the nonprofit ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune published their investigation in mid-November into the use of seclusion rooms to isolate students ...
I want to tell you a story about covering Congress in 2002 that doesn’t feel that long ago, but my 18-year-old students at Columba College in Chicago would assure me otherwise. I wasn’t too ...
A recent study by the nonprofit media and culture group Define American and the MIT Center for Civic Media found that major newspapers have adopted President Trump’s rhetoric for immigration, using ...
Recent attacks on the press dehumanize us. And this doesn’t just happen at the national level.
Illinois is hardly the only state with fewer reporters on the statehouse beat
Just days before the 4th of July holiday, the DuQuoin Weekly in southern Illinois got a tip that the country music band, Confederate Railroad, would no longer be playing at the DuQuoin State Fair in August.