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Category: Media Education
Hugo Black Died 46 Years Ago. Now He’s Having a Moment Thanks to ‘The Post’
Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post’ opens nationwide on Friday. Every American should see it. Many won’t, and for political reasons. Conservatives … More
The Right Says It’s Fighting For Campus Free Speech. It Wants No Such Thing.
The biggest First Amendment story of 2017 may well have been the battles over freedom of speech on college campuses. … More
Regaining Public Trust in Media in the Age of Trump
The other course I’m teaching this spring is Media Law & Ethics, which we’ve hashtagged as #MediaLawEthics for Twitter purposes. … More
Welcome to #MobileSocial in 2018
Christmas is in the rear-view mirror, New Year is around the corner, and the new Spring 2018 term is about … More
Getting Started With Twitter at Simpson College
As the students in my upcoming Simpson Colloquium course — Prelude to a Farce: American Journalism and Democracy — are … More
Where’s the Drive to Perform?
I’ve spent much of the past week connecting the literature I’ve been reading with the experiences I’ve been having in … More
Turning Twitter into a Journalistic Tool
Now that, as many of us who teach journalism have noted, Twitter is slowly gaining acceptance as a media tool … More
The Must-Have Tools for Studying Multimedia Journalism
Let’s start with a stipulation: We don’t live in a perfect world. In that perfect world, students would be able … More
The Clueless Generation
The first day of spring term at Simpson never seems as exciting as the first day of classes in August — … More