On Friday, March 24, the Park Center for Independent Media and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival hosted a roundtable conversation with the goal of unpacking the multiple voices of Appalachia. This event brought together three contributors to The Edge,...
American journalists should guard democracy amid election lies and audiences that dismiss facts as bias. But when clickbait generates revenue and politicians are undeterred by the press, how can news media catch up with a changing political landscape? Three...
Rampant disinformation is stifling progress toward an informed public and functioning democracy. But a concerning shortage of world leaders is moving to address the crisis. At the first full day of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this January,...
Last week, the discovery of classified documents at Joe Biden’s former office and later his home sparked a flurry of news coverage, including comparisons to Donald Trump’s ongoing classified-records scandal. Critics called out false equivalency in mainstream media’s...
In the years following his death, documents related to Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder case were destroyed, and all files of FBI surveillance on King were sealed for 50 years. The suppression of information prompted human rights lawyer Dr. William Pepper and the King...
Last week, Congress came together in overwhelming bipartisan unity and harmony to approve a record-breaking $858 billion military spending bill with virtually no public debate – even though just last month the Pentagon failed its fifth audit in a row after being...
As dangerous conditions intensified across the globe this year for writers, artists, and journalists, the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) persisted in its work to offer them protection. Ongoing conflict in in Yemen, Ethiopia, and Myanmar, Russia’s...
On December 7, Nieman Reports published a comprehensive piece on the concept of open-source investigations (OSI). Maxim Edwards, the writer of the piece, began by clarifying that OSI is not simply information obtained through social media, but rather “any information...
After a summit in 2019 where Facebook’s news-partnerships team announced a plan to spend $300 million over three years expanding infrastructure for local news, the company, now known as Meta, has spent the past year cutting funding for and downsizing most of its...
Online content regulation may be necessary to safeguard democracy and the quality of information people consume amid harmful falsehoods and outright violence. Elon Musk’s October 27 acquisition of Twitter, which entailed massive layoffs for key staff, led to a...
