Tag: news
Searching for the right angle – students in this course shoot...
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, University of Maryland
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and...
4 ways to protect yourself from disinformation
Elizabeth Stoycheff, Wayne State University
You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your fault.
Even the most...
Want to know what will happen in 2020? Look to state...
Daniel R. Birdsong, University of Dayton
Public opinion polls are ingrained in American politics. It seems like every day there is a new poll about...
Of the trillion photos taken in 2018, which were the most...
Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon
What makes some images memorable and others easily forgotten? It’s a question I’ve been studying for nearly 20 years....
Local media struggle to hold Sinclair accountable
Andrea Hickerson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s stations are under renewed scrutiny following Deadspin’s release of a montage of anchors reading the same...
Why are Sinclair’s scripted news segments such a big deal?
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
On March 31, Deadspin produced a video showing a chorus of local news anchors delivering the exact same scripted speech...
How the Pentagon tried to cure America of its ‘Vietnam syndrome’
Paul Joseph, Tufts University
In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,” accompanied a unit of U.S. marines on a search-and-destroy mission to...