Media and Communication

A particular kind of mental gymnastics that people living under authoritarian media systems develop over time — a quiet, practiced art of reading between lines, decoding silences, and constructing approximations of reality from the fragments of truth that slip through even the most tightly controlled […]

Imagine hiring a new journalist for your newsroom. Before they write a single word, you’d want to know about their background — where they went to school, what they read growing up, whose ideas shaped their thinking, what assumptions they carry about how the world […]

Here’s a small experiment you can run in your own mind right now. Imagine you’re scrolling through a news app and you come across two articles sitting side by side. Both cover the same story — let’s say a local government budget decision that affects […]

You read a news story, and somewhere in the back of your mind, a small voice asks: is this actually true? Is there context I’m not being given? Is this outlet pushing a particular angle? That quiet skepticism — once reserved for tabloids and obviously […]

Think about the last time someone in your family group chat forwarded a news story. Maybe it was a health warning, a political claim, a viral video, or a message urging everyone to share something urgently before it was “deleted.” You probably didn’t question it […]

It’s a busy afternoon, and the journalists inside are chasing three stories simultaneously — a government budget controversy, a community health crisis in a densely populated neighborhood, and a breaking story about flooding in a rural state that most international outlets won’t touch. They’re working […]

Stepped into almost any journalism school classroom today and you’ll likely find something that would have looked perfectly familiar twenty years ago. Students sitting in rows, a professor at the front, a whiteboard or projector behind them, discussions about inverted pyramids, AP style, and the […]

You open your phone in the morning, and before you’ve even fully woken up, a feed of stories has already assembled itself specifically for you. Stories about the topics you care about, from the sources you’ve clicked before, calibrated to your geography, your political leanings, […]

Picture a small-town newspaper. Maybe you’ve driven past the office — a modest building on Main Street with a few beat-up cars in the parking lot and a faded sign above the door. Inside, there are two or three reporters who cover everything from city […]

Imagine putting on a headset and suddenly finding yourself standing in the middle of a Syrian refugee camp. You can look left, look right, look up at the sky. You hear children crying in the distance. You feel — not read, not watch, but feel […]