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Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
October 6, 2024 - September 19, 2024. Freelance journalist Victoria Roshchyna died in Russian captivity on the verge of release in a prisoner exchange
New York
First amendment and global freedom of expression lawyer for the Associated Press, other organizations, and individuals for five decades. Mr. Winfield won cases to protect reporters’ confidential sources and unpublished notes, and he challenged efforts to bar cameras in courtrooms.
Washington, DC
January 22, 1940 – November 4, 2024. Reporter, editor, columnist and foreign bureau chief for the Washington Post. Reported extensively on apartheid South Africa and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer prize for international reporting.
New York Times investigative journalist
David Burnham's groundbreaking work for the New York Times on police corruption in the early 1970s became the foundation for the bestselling book and film Serpico; a later series on nuclear power safety violations became the basis for the film Silkwood.
American satirist
Widely seen as one of the most influential satirists of the 20th century, Jules Feiffer broke barriers others would not touch. His comic strip was alive with the issues of the day, including sex, career stress, social alienation, marital troubles, and both self-doubt and joyful self-expression in equal measure. In an era before social media, his following was impressively large and durable.
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and Duke DeAndre Richardson: Lives of courage and truth
Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of India, is the first member of a royal family, worldwide, to come out as gay. An energetic advocate for equality, whether for struggling rural communities of Gujarat or for LGBT rights, the prince and his American husband Duke DeAndre Richardson are at the forefront of social change in India.
Washington DC
Real world assignments, access to faculty
J-School with a hands-on style of training young journalists and a track record of alumni landing at professional news organizations.
Bloomington, Indiana
The Michael J. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism is a student newsroom associated with the Media School at Indiana University. The Arnolt Center collaborates with professional news outlets such as IndyStar, USA Today, the Indiana Capital Chronicle, Fox 8 News, and InvestigateTV.
Tempe, Arizona
Pioneer blogger and news industry critic, Dan Gillmor is never short on ideas or hope.
Denton
A network of libraries at the University of North Texas that are recognized for innovative web archiving efforts. Maintains the CyberCemetery to preserve and provide permanent public access to websites and publications from defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.
San Francisco
The Internet Archive is an independent digital library. With a collection spanning billions of websites, books, movies, music and software, IA is among the largest digital repositories in the world. Its stated mission is to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”
New York
A large and influential publishing house with a storied history spanning 130 years, Hearst Corporation and its media arm Hearst Communications control 24 daily newspapers, 200 magazine editions worldwide, 35 television stations, and two radio stations, among other news and non-news businesses. Hearst-owned titles include the San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Antonio Express-News, Houston Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, O, Road & Track, Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, Veranda, and Town & Country. The company has remained privately controlled by the Hearst Family Trust
Oklahoma City
The Oklahoman is an American broadsheet. It is the second largest daily and second oldest newspaper in the state.
Mumbai
Kalpana Sharma is a prominent freelance journalist who has covered political affairs in India since 1972.
New York
New York, New York
Great Falls, Montana
The Great Falls Tribune is an American broadsheet. In 2005, it established Rivers Edge Printing and Distribution to expand production and to reach a wider audience. Grady Higgins is editor.
Bangalore
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed is an Indian journalist and deputy editor of Frontline India with expertise in long-form journalism.
Morgantown, West Virginia
Los Angeles
Funding, guidance, tools
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Poynter Institute is the top independent training center for journalists in the United States. Founded by Nelson Poynter of the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times, Poynter is also the publishing parent of the Tampa Bay Times.
Los Angeles
INN, founded in 2009 by journalists from 27 nonpartisan, nonprofit news organizations, now supports about 490 member news organizations dedicated to public service. INN Network members tell stories that otherwise might go untold – connecting communities, holding powerf to account.
Miami
New York
Foundational documents for understanding the operation of democracy in America
Blueprint of American democracy
The Constitution of the United States is a set of principles designed to guide government in a fair and just way, meant to withstand the passions and tides of the moment. It establishes a strong but limited federal system, balancing power between the states and the national government, ensuring that neither anarchy nor despotism would prevail.
First ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution
The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, meant as a safeguard against tyranny. It's design is structured to tell the government what it may not do, rather than what it must. It is a list of rules, written to keep power in check.
First provision of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution
Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly. The First Amendment is the most eloquent assertion of liberty in the American political tradition, yet it is constantly in tension with the realities of power. The freedoms laid down within it are not self-executing; they depend on the vigilance of those who would exercise them and the restraint of those who would curtail them.
John Milton
John Milton's 1644 statement opposing licensing is among history's most influential defenses of freedom of speech. The principles laid out here formed the basis for modern understandings of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
John Locke
John Locke's Second Treatise, published in 1689, lays out a civil society based on natural rights and contract theory. It is a foundational text in the theory of liberalism.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Published in 1532 in Rome, The Prince is a psychological handbook for governing. Machiavelli speaks to those who rule, who must decide, in moments of crisis, whether to be feared or loved, whether to break promises or honor them, whether to kill or to spare. Often cited as the inspiration for the phrase "the end justifies the means."
Walter Lippmann
The essential document outlining the problems of representative democracy in a time when society's complexity, and the news of it, is impossible to digest rationally.
Walter Lippmann
Public Opinion is a critical assessment of scenarios for healthy democratic government, in the face of emotional, irrational and self-serving social motivations prevent good political outcomes. Perceptive analysis of the limits of human perception, and how to address same in a self-governing society, gave the book a permanent place in the study of the press and democracy.
