Holly: Election workers are slogging through a laborious and expensive recount in Florida as the races for U.S. Senate, governor and commissioner of agriculture are too close to call. There’s also some weirdness in the results. In Broward County, for starters, a ridiculous percentage of voters – 3.7 percent – left the Senate vote box blank. Zounds! That’s a lot of “undervoting.” In typical fashion, there’s the partisan mudslinging. But the fact is, the race may have been sullied by poor …
Blog Posts
Americans are voting today on the value of watchdog journalism. Sure, a mid-term election in the U.S. is historically a referendum on the man occupying the Oval Office. Today is …
Doing journalism can be as dangerous as it is honorable. Especially for those who dare to dissent, like Jamal Khashoggi, the progressive Saudi journalist who was openly critical of Crown …
Garry: What qualities make a college professor so unforgettable that former students travel from all over the country to wish them well in retirement? In the instance of Jane Briggs …
You’d have to be avoiding the news with some resolve not to know that “Fear,” the new book by journalist Bob Woodward, was released today. The bestseller, which details chaos …
Newsrooms are extraordinary places no matter whether they are as tiny as The Oakland Post or as vast as The New York Times. The majority are more like the modest digs …
Holly: Thanks to Dr. Adina Schneeweis, Dr. Chiaoning Su, Dr. Suzy Lee and Dr. Marsha Ma — our exceptional colleagues — for giving us a glimpse into their summer lives. …
In a wide-ranging discussion about reporting and writing with Drew Philp over coffee in early May at Trinosophes, he offered this observation: “Economically, the healthiest area of journalism right now is …
GARRY — In 2004, a Michigan publisher sold his collection of about 80 profitable suburban and rural newspapers to a New Jersey-based corporation for $415 million. Cue the thunder. Storm …
G&H: Can the First Amendment and the Second Amendment co-exist? They have for centuries, but there is a historic tension between the first two points listed in the Bill of Rights. …
Holly and Garry: Google is a media Goliath that stole our advertisers and pushed our very profession to the precipice of financial collapse. This is the view of many if …