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When Kelly Slippey moved to West Lancaster Jewels eight years ago, a friend told her about the neighborhood’s secret garden. ...
To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...
For most of the twentieth century—from the muckrakers of the Progressive Era and pioneering investigator Ida Tarbell to Walter Cronkite’s Vietnam War coverage—journalism’s theorists and practitioners ...
It did so with a voice that amplified church views on social issues and criticized the sensationalism that emerged among its larger contemporaries along the East Coast, particularly during the “yellow ...
Yellow journalism refers to sensational, biased reporting that exaggerates issues to attract attention and increase sales. This often involves dramatic headlines, controversial content and the ...
The Trump era could even come to be remembered not for reinforcing the taboo around greater public investment in media but for catalyzing a move toward more of it.
The “yellow journalism” era, which was an early version of news as entertainment, led to an age of reform in journalism, notes Jeffrey Engel, director of Southern Methodist University’s ...
My journalism degree required a capstone project — a sort-of bachelor’s level thesis paper on a subject we were meant to dig into and understand deeply. I chose media bias because it seemed ...
Citizen journalism, despite all its claims of an ‘ideal speech situation’, degrades into a space of vitriol, racism, bigotry, misinformation, rumours, and hate speech ...
How the free press forged the American identity and equips us with diverse perspectives.
While yellow journalism faded quickly, we are now seeing it return with blatant, glaring examples out there, especially in grocery store checkout lines. You know which publications I’m referring to.