Tag: news
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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…
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Rolling Stone, Rape, and Journalism
It started off innocent enough. A female college student. An alleged gang rape. A magazine journalist trying to do the right thing. I didn’t read Rolling Stone’s article, “A Rape on Campus,” about an alleged gang rape of a woman named Jackie at a University of Virginia frat house. But for the sake of this…
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What Will It Take?
I haven’t blogged in more than a month because I’ve been busy with other life priorities, but today, an image from The Atlantic forced me to stop and post: The photo was snapped in Syria by Associated Press Photographer Manu Brabo, and the caption reads: “A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son…