PBS anchor Jim Lehrer discusses impeachment, campaigns and the news On a visit to the Missouri School of Journalism, his alma mater, legendary PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer talks about his experiences covering a presidential assassination, two presidential impeachments and 12...
Flipping the script on newsroom equity The newsroom has long been extolled as a place that pioneers social change — and speaks truth to power. My colleagues and I continued this tradition by talking to well-respected journalists about how...
In Japan, women journalists still struggle for equality Japan's women journalists still lag behind men in salary and status. Click here for the full story about gender equity in newsrooms around the...
The fight for press freedom in Hong Kong William Yang was on the ground covering Hong Kong for several months during the height of the anti-extradition bill protests. He’s used to being on the frontlines. Now, because of COVID-19, budget cuts and...
After three years of #MeToo, are newsrooms more diverse? In the wake of #MeToo and the death of George Floyd, many public figures and institutions have had intense conversations about gender and racial inequities. The news media has brought these conversations to...
How a sportswriter challenged a government Just before the COVID pandemic sent the world into lockdown last spring, visitors to the True/False film festival — an annual showing of top documentaries in Columbia, Missouri — got a sneak preview of a...
How to make news accessible. Really. Five years ago, Sandy Murillo could not have been an associate producer at CRIS Radio, a daily podcast that reads newspapers and other periodicals to people with visual impairments. The newsroom's...
Transcript: Accessibility in media Participants in the 2017 Disability Pride Parade NYC in New York on July 9, 2017. Photo Credit: Rainmaker Photo/MediaPunch/IPX This is a transcript of the audio program for the first part in our series...
Brother of slain Syrian journalist attacked in Turkey A Syrian journalist whose brother was killed in a suspected attack by the Islamic State in October has escaped an attack in southeastern Turkey. Ahmed Abd al-Qader, the director of the Syrian news website...
Ethiopia’s jailed journalists – continued Zone 9 bloggers: Befekadu Hailu, Atnaf Berahane, Natnael Feleke, Mahlet Fantahun, Zelalem Kibret, and Abel Wabela. Kaliti prison, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, is home to many of Ethiopia’s...
