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Ask Leah
Friday, October 24, 2014
Leah Reich was a 24-year old writing for a video game website who accidentally became Advisor-in-Chief to thousands of lonely teenaged boys. Including reporter PJ Vogt.
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Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Infectious Disease Edition
Friday, October 24, 2014
Panic over the Ebola virus in the U.S. has dominated cable news. So, we put together a template to help the discerning news consumer see through the media's over-the-top coverage.
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Condemning #GamerGate
Friday, October 24, 2014
Christopher Grant, Editor in Chief of Polygon, explains #GamerGate and his approach to speaking out against the video game industry's latest misogyny problems.
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Remembering Legendary Editor Ben Bradlee
Friday, October 24, 2014
Bob remembers the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who died this Tuesday at age 93.
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Grabbing the Gavel
Friday, October 24, 2014
A new study finds that TV ads attacking state supreme court justices during elections influence both who makes the bench and how the law is laid down.
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The Medium is the Message at 50
Friday, October 17, 2014
Fifty years ago, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
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McLuhanisms, 50 Years Later
Friday, October 17, 2014
Brooke speaks to Nicholas Carr about how Marshall McLuhan's theories have held up, 50 years later.
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"You Can Win with the Media"
Friday, October 17, 2014
A course being offered in St Louis aims to ease tensions between law enforcement and the press.
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The Making of CitizenFour
Friday, October 17, 2014
Brooke speaks with New Yorker staff writer George Packer about profiling filmmaker Laura Poitras as she made the documentary CitizenFour, about Edward Snowden.
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Unveiling CitizenFour, Inside Ferguson, and Protesting Outside SCOTUS
Friday, October 17, 2014
A look at Laura Poitras' new documentary about Edward Snowden, "CitizenFour," a view from inside the continued protests in Ferguson, and barring political protesters outside SCOTUS.
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Ferguson on the Map and in the Mind
Friday, October 17, 2014
In the months since Ferguson erupted in protest after Michael Brown's death, the town has become shorthand for myriad social ills. But what's been the impact on the community itself?
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Not In The Supreme Court's Backyard
Friday, October 17, 2014
Bob speaks with New York Times Supreme Court correspondent, Adam Liptak, about the Supreme Court's commitment to keeping protesters off its plaza.
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Ebola in Liberia, Outbreak Narratives, and Covering Israel-Palestine
Friday, October 10, 2014
A Liberian journalist on covering a deadly epidemic, how Hollywood influences our understanding of Ebola, and a debate between two journalists about the press and Israel-Palestine.
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Covering an Epidemic
Friday, October 10, 2014
A Washington Post health reporter recounts his recent reporting trip to Liberia.
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A Liberian Journalist on Ebola
Friday, October 10, 2014
Liberian journalist and editor Rodney Sieh on covering the story that could cost you your life.
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Two Journalists Debate Coverage of Israel-Palestine
Friday, October 10, 2014
Ethan Bronner and Matti Friedman, two journalists who've devoted their careers to reporting on Israel and Palestine, discuss how the international press treats this thorny story.
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Viral Narratives
Friday, October 10, 2014
How fictional narratives of epidemics affect the reality on the ground.
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"Ebola: What It Is"
Friday, October 10, 2014
Inspired by CNN's chyron "Ebola: The ISIS of Biological Agents?" photographer and novelist Teju Cole wrote about what else cable news thinks Ebola might be.
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Riding the Rumor
Friday, October 03, 2014
A longtime chronicler of media misinformation creates a real-time rumor tracker called Emergent.info.
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Nothing But The Truth
Friday, October 03, 2014
The splintering image of the Secret Service, why rumors are more interesting than fact, and an atheist tome for kids.
