Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
New York Times' Baquet addresses Trump controversies
By  • 8 October 2019
From the New York Times' reluctance to use the word "lie" or "racist" to describe statements by President Trump to what the news outlet has learned from its coverage of the 2016 election, Executive Editor…
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Despite insults, Muslim campaign reporter pursued empathy, fairness
By  • 28 December 2017
"As a journalist you want people to share their thoughts and their emotions with you." If there were only two words Asma Khalid would like radio listeners to associate with her work, those would be…
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St. Louis racial divisions in columnist's spotlight
By  • 12 January 2017
The shooting death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Mo. altered the course of Tony Messenger's career. Along with colleague Kevin Horrigan, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial writer was named a finalist…
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CBS's Bill Plante speaks on half century of news [program]
By  • 15 January 2016
On this special edition of Global Journalist, CBS News' White House correspondent Bill Plante examines the changes to the news business and the biggest stories of his 52 year career. Plante, a 2015 recipient of…
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Rea Hederman, from segregation to the New York Review
By  • 8 January 2016
Rea Hederman has twice left his mark on American journalism. In the 1970s and early 1980s he changed his family's flagship paper, The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., from a voice for segregation and racism into…
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