Saving lives and truth: why protecting environmental journalists matters more than ever Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, experts are urging more protections for environmental journalists, 30 of whom were killed between 2009 and 2020. 05/2/2024 - 12:21 am | View Link
Will the Senate finally move to protect small and independent journalists? The Senate has a golden opportunity to protect independent journalism and promote media diversity. This is the time for Republicans to join reform-minded Democrats to finally pass the PRESS Act into ... 04/29/2024 - 12:31 am | View Link
Book review: “On the Move” is a must-read account of U.S. climate migration This timely book by Abrahm Lustgarten argues that mass migration triggered by climate change will fundamentally rock U.S. society. 04/25/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Professor discusses Texas A&M’s renewed commitment to journalism, 3 veteran journalists hired The Texas A&M journalism program has made significant strides and continues to progress since previous challenges with restructuring. 04/23/2024 - 10:09 pm | View Link
What journalists and independent creators can learn from each other A panel on what social media influencers and journalists can learn from each other offered one other potential path of transformation. “I don’t think people care if I’m a journalist or a content ... 04/23/2024 - 7:47 am | View Link
Former Trump attorney Jim Trusty weighs in on how the jury may react to an exchange between former President Donald Trump's attorney and Stormy Daniel's former attorney during Trump's criminal hush money trial.
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.
Mike Lindell was a great American success story, coming from nothing to owning a successful business. From being a crack addict to earning millions from his flourishing business. And then he threw it all away for Donald J. Trump, a raging narcissist, possibly a sociopath, who is hungry for power.
The pillow salesman is looking rough these days.
Even before he formally announced his campaign to be the Republican candidate to run against Senator Tammy Baldwin, Eric Hovde has been getting hammered on the fact that he is living large in Laguna Beach, California, so that he could do hands on management of his banks out west.
In a lame effort to counter this, Eric Hovde made what just might be the most cringeworthy video of this campaign season by going out in an icy lake, because he apparently thinks that is what Wisconsinites do, and then challenging Baldwin to join him in the water:
Considering the fact that the only time you will find a Wisconsinite in a frozen lake is during a New Years Day Polar Bear Plunge or if their ice fishing shanty fell through the ice, he didn't convince a lot of people.
Tax justice advocates this week are expressing hope that delegates at a United Nations summit aimed at drafting an international tax convention will take the "once-in-a-century opportunity," as one campaigner and researcher said, to place the common good at the center of the global tax system instead of individual and corporate greed.
Representatives of U.