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This week, my colleague Kristen Hare launched a project called “The Essential Workers,” which exists because of the work of journalism educators like you.Last year, two journalism professors laun

About four years ago, a local restaurant owner in a town outside of Rock Hill, South Carolina, asked Bret McCormick for research help for a shrine dedicated to NFL players from the area.McCormick, th

For more than 100 years, the biggest rivalry in college basketball has played out in the pages of The Daily Tar Heel at UNC and The Chronicle at Duke.These two college media programs are as storied a

The Biden administration has restored the daily White House press conferences with White House press secretary Jen Psaki holding a briefing pretty much every weekday.However, President Biden himself

Dwayne Fatherree is community editor at The Daily Iberian in New Iberia, Louisiana, a city near the Gulf Coast in south-central Louisiana.Fatherree believes local connections have kept the newspaper g

19, Media Matters reported that in a 2018 Facebook comment, Greene agreed with the conspiracy theory that the Parkland shooting was a planned event done to crack down on gun rights.Just after her soci

The article was originally published on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website and is republished here with permission.Nearly half of local news outlets’ digital subscribe

The media absolutely has reported en masse on sexual allegations leveled against Cuomo by a former aide.This time, the story was broken in The New York Times by Jesse McKinley.The aide, Charlotte Benn

There’s one thing that’s for certain when you go from full-time employee to freelancer: your taxes get a whole lot more complicated.As a freelancer, you need to be proactive about figuring out ho

This week, President Joe Biden officially extended the national COVID-19 emergency declaration into a second year.30, 2020, WHO called it a “public health emergency of international concern.One wou