U.S. journalism professors have taken a variety of approaches to teaching about covering Palestine, including not doing so at ...

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A Jersey Bee youth media workshop held at Rutgers University-Newark last year focused on producing a “Student’s Guide to School Board Elections.” Photo courtesy of Nikki Villafane for the Jersey Bee, ...

This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. These purposes for journalism make up a kind of draft “theory of change” for movement ...

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The Washington Post dismissed long-time opinion columnist Karen Attiah last month after she posted on Bluesky about the racist double standards around Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk’s killing and ...

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New Voices Texas student journalists and advisors held a lobby day on Mar. 17, 2025 to advocate for student journalists’ rights. Photo by Naina Srivastava, courtesy of Shift Press. Get The Objective ...

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