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Our Anniversaries, Ourselves: 25 Years after the Berlin Wall
Friday, November 07, 2014
How the changing media coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall over the past 25 years reflects our changing self image as Americans.
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Midterm Myths, Emotional Algorithms, and More
Friday, November 07, 2014
An unpacking of the post-midterm election myths, whether algorithms can intuit emotions, and 25 years after the Berlin Wall.
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Rocky Mountain Heist
Friday, October 31, 2014
Bob talks with an unlikely star in Rocky Mountain Heist, Citizens United's latest "documentary."
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A Dreary Mythbuster
Friday, October 31, 2014
We often hear that mass shootings are not on the rise, despite our gut feelings to the contrary. But new research finds they are, in fact, happening more often.
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Behind The Curtain
Friday, October 31, 2014
The corrosive influence of money in politics post Citizens United, and the dark task of online content moderation.
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Covering an Epidemic
Friday, October 10, 2014
A Washington Post health reporter recounts his recent reporting trip to Liberia.
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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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Viral Narratives
Friday, October 10, 2014
How fictional narratives of epidemics affect the reality on the ground.
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Imgur Attempts To Break Our Dependency on the GIF
Thursday, October 09, 2014
One of the biggest image hosting sites is trying to wean the internet off of the .gif format.
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Californians Shame Their Neighbors With a New "Drought Shaming" App.
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
The data revolution is upon us, folks, and we are using it to shame our neighbors for wasting water during a drought.
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Weev Is A White Nationalist. He Still Shouldn't Have Gone To Jail
Monday, October 06, 2014
A convicted hacker has gone public as a white supremacist. His views are terrible, but he still shouldn't have gone to jail.
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Facebook Announces Reforms To Its Research Policies
Friday, October 03, 2014
Yesterday, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer announced updates to the way that Facebook conducts research.
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The Education Battle of 2014
Friday, October 03, 2014
The College Board's new Advanced Placement US History framework is causing controversy across the nation. Why?
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Law of the Jungle
Friday, October 03, 2014
On the seemingly heroic lawyer Steven Donziger's case against oil giant Chevron. The story was not as simple as it seemed.
