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University of Missouri students circle tents on the Carnahan Quadrangle, locking arms to prevent media from entering the space following the resignation of President Timothy Wolfe on Monday. Robert Cohen/TNS/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Robert Cohen/TNS/Landov University of Missouri students circle tents on the Carnahan Quadrangle, locking arms to prevent media from entering…
Protesters, students, and media fill Traditions Plaza at the University of Missouri. Credit Photograph by Michael Cali / San Diego Union-Tribune / TNS via Landov Barrier Status: ‘none’ Of the many concerns unearthed by the protests at two major universities this week, the velocity at which we now move from racial recrimination to self-righteous backlash…
A journalist at the University of Missouri was challenged and physically blocked from filming protests at the school. The man was met with chants saying, “Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go!” (YouTube/Mark Schierbecker) Video of a confrontation between a news photographer and protesters at the University of Missouri on Monday led to…
photo by FreeImages.com/Martina – I know why you’re here. Something has happened that has pushed you over the edge. You know, with regards to “political correctness.” Or “call-out culture,” or the “Internet outrage machine,” or whatever you want to call it. It’s been a lot of little things up until now — you know, comments that you’ve…
Melissa Click, a mass media professor at the University of Missouri, is seen pushing a student journalist’s camera and asking “for some muscle” during demonstrations on campus on Nov. 9. (Youtube/Mark Schierbecker) Melissa Click, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri who was captured on video Monday aggressively confronting a journalism student covering a…
There have been hundreds of thousands of words written on ESPN closing Grantland, but most of them have missed the largest issue — the site was losing money. With a staff somewhere between 42 and 54 people Grantland produced, according to James Miller’s Vanity Fair piece, somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 million a year…
This file should primarily consist of HTML with a little bit of PHP. After this image of a Brooklyn student named Vidal captured widespread attention on the Humans of New York blog, he and the photographer, Brandon Stanton, were invited to the White House. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY BRANDON STANTON. COURTESY ST. MARTIN’S PRESS Barrier Status:…
A recent poll of college students’ attitudes toward free speech (in general and on campus) is a mixed bag. The survey by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale shows that 87% of respondents agreed with this statement: “There is educational value in listening to and understanding views and opinions that…
When is the best time to send out an email newsletter? Morning and evening are certainly popular choices: Quartz goes for wakeup time (wherever you are in the world), while Vox chooses 8 p.m.. At Nieman Lab, as you surely already know, we send out our weekday newsletter at 3 p.m Eastern. Twelve Thirty Six,…
I was in an uncomfortable chair sitting through another boring quarterly meeting led by our publisher and his PowerPoint deck. Some astute member of the newsroom had coined the nickname “Mojo” for him, partly as a play on his name, but more as a comment on his dreary lack of charisma. It was all EBITAs…