Daily Reading and Thoughts…
Daily Reading and Thoughts…
How a week in Berlin changed my perspective on the Holocaust, and how chilling it is to walk in the spaces those who were murdered lived their lives before hate took control of Germany.…
Entitled "Want to cover local? Then you'd better BE local!", Niles explains why non-local journalists leave communities less informed, less engaged, and with fewer reasons to support journalism.…
Justin Amash is the fifth-term representative for Michigan’s Third Congressional District, elected five times as a Republican, Amash is now an independent. He wrote about why he left the Republican Party in a July op-ed published by the Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/justin-amash-our-politics-is-in-a-partisan-death-spiral-thats-why-im-leaving-the-gop/2019/07/04/…
During the next nine months, my blog will become a notepad of sorts for my research at the University of Toronto as a Journalism Fellow. Tonight's reading, is "A Multilevel Examination of Local Newspaper Credibility" from the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 95, no. 1 (March 2018): 76–95 [https://doi.…
I lived in Winnipeg for one year, during which time I did so volunteering with the Boys and Girls Clubs there. In reality, not much volunteering, maybe 75, maybe 100 at most, hours of involvement. I learned a lot in those short hours. One of the moments that challenged my…
I was that guy in high school, pressed black pants every day. What some may call dressing for success; but at its root there was a practicality to this - I found that Moore's sold good pants at a fair price, and eventually they became my entire pant wardrope. "Boring"…