Tag: commentary

• May 13, 2020

  4 Ways to Tell if Information is Real or Fake: Advice from a Former Journalist

  

  When I was a daily newspaper reporter, I always had to navigate through multiple versions of a story before I learned what really happened. We have a saying in journalism. It goes, “There are three sides to every story: side one, side two, and the Truth.” The Truth usually falls somewhere between the first two…
• October 4, 2018

  Men: If you’re worried about women falsely accusing you of rape, work to change the culture

  There are a lot of good men out there. My father, the retired elementary school teacher and feminist. My boyfriend, the protective son of a single mother. My former bosses and colleagues, who mentored and shaped me as a professional. With the current political climate involving Kavanaugh and #MeToo, some men are concerned that coercive…
• June 28, 2018

  Journalists Just Want to Tell Stories. Today, Some Died for It

  I used to be a reporter at a small daily, community newspaper like the Capital Gazette. We had maybe 14 reporters, and we were like family. I couldn’t imagine living through a shooting with that family, watching some of them die. Today, I cry with the reporters and staff at the Capital Gazette. We don’t know the…