Professor’s Press Pass Archive - Poynter

Dana Bash: Ex-wife or accomplished journalist?

Barbara Allen — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:06:51 +0000

Issue overview As Poynter senior media writer Tom Jones wrote in late April, CNN announced that journalist Dana Bash would replace John King as the anchor of “Inside Politics” as King moved to another CNN assignment. Bash wrote in a statement, “After nearly 30 years at CNN covering campaigns, Capitol Hill and the White […]

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Risking their lives to get to school

Barbara Allen — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:41:45 +0000

Issue overview View the images and read the ProPublica investigation, “As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School,” and watch the video by Investigate TV (embedded in the middle of the story), “Railroaded.” Then answer the following questions. Discussion questions What did you feel as you watched […]

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Is it OK to leave a recorder behind?

Barbara Allen — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 21:33:53 +0000

Issue overview When an Oklahoma reporter suspected county lawmakers were having private conversations about state business in violation of open meetings laws, he left a recorder behind to capture the conversation. What he heard later was the officials talking — in part — about killing reporters and Black people. The reporting of the McCurtain Gazette-News made […]

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What should be labeled ‘state media’?

Barbara Allen — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:50:13 +0000

Twitter added a tag that labels NPR’s main account “state-affiliated media” on Tuesday, April 4. (Screenshot/Twitter) Recently, Twitter added a label to NPR’s page on its profile page: “state-affiliated media.” NPR — which has a weekly audience of 46 million people across its many platforms and stands for National Public Radio — responded by refusing to […]

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How should journalists call out political maneuvering?

Barbara Allen — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:14:52 +0000

Issue overview Recently, two journalists — one from Florida, one from Great Britain — have made headlines after they pushed back on government information. Ben Montgomery, a reporter with Axios, said he was fired after an email exchange between him and a government official in Florida was posted online. Montgomery had responded to an email from the […]

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It’s hard to win a media lawsuit, but Dominion’s going to try

Barbara Allen — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:06:36 +0000

Issue overview Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, saying that the media company defamed them by knowingly broadcasting incorrect information propagated by Donald Trump, who falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him. Watch this 60-second explainer from The Associated Press: “The Fox News Dominion Voting Systems […]

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Bruh, no way

Barbara Allen — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000

Issue overview Read “Dallas Morning News Fires Reporter for Calling Mayor ‘Bruh’ on Twitter” and answer the following questions. Discussion questions Do you think this reporter deserved to be fired? Why or why not? The story says that Meghan Mangrum’s boss, who was Black, seemed to take issue with Mangrum using the slang in reference […]

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‘It could have been me’

Barbara Allen — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:14:43 +0000

Editor’s note: This Professor’s Press Pass is less about having a discussion about ethics or business practices, and more about empowering you to lead an effective classroom discussion about the fears and issues your students may be experiencing as a result of this event and others like it. Issue overview Our journalism community suffered a […]

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To see, or not to see?

Barbara Allen — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:13:23 +0000

Issue overview A recent dramatic — and televised — voting cycle for America’s new speaker of the House highlighted C-SPAN, a nonprofit cable channel that has been broadcasting live (and also unedited) footage from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1979. In “Democracy in action or ‘C-SPAN gaze’: The cases for and […]

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‘Things really escalated quickly’

Barbara Allen — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:45:11 +0000

Issue overview As you can see in this video from ABC15 in Phoenix, a bystander captured cell phone video of a Wall Street Journal reporter being detained by police outside of a bank. The reporter, Dion Rabouin, told reporters with the station that he was in Phoenix visiting family over the Thanksgiving holiday when he […]

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