It might have been drilled into your head from a young age that the only way to be successful in life is to get a college degree. You might have … Continue reading “What Future Journalists Should Know About Journalism School”
A day after an internal email by a Google employee was leaked to the press, a combination of ideological intolerance and scientific illiteracy led Google to fire James Damore for … Continue reading “From College Indoctrination to Corporate Intolerance”
Honest reporters and editors have asked a hard question since Election Day: How could we have been so staggeringly wrong about so much in 2016? On December 8, Dean Baquet, … Continue reading “What’s Wrong with Our Journalism Departments?”
The recent decision by UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Media and Journalism to eliminate requirements that journalism majors take certain basic courses in economics, U.S. government, and American History since 1865 is troubling. If the people who are supposed to keep us aware are unaware themselves, how can we know how to stand up for ourselves?