A journalism nerd’s roundup of interesting things I read, saw or heard this week. Views my own. Best reads 📚 American Health Care Is Dying. This Hospital Could Cure It by Ricardo Nuila. “Visiting a hospital or clinic today feels like facing a firing squad, with rounds and rounds of bills coming from…

Interesting things I read, saw, and more this week. Got hit by a norovirus this week and celebrated my birthday sipping generic Pedialyte — so not that much to report! Best reads 📚 Florida Could Start Looking a Lot Like Hungary by Michelle Goldberg. New DeSantis bill in Florida is “almost an apocalyptic…

I highlight a few interesting things I’ve seen, heard, read, or thought about this week. A little belated once again! Best reads 📚 One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America’s Overdose Crisis by By Jeneen Interlandi. “We spend roughly five times as much incarcerating people with substance use disorders as it…

A few interesting things I’ve seen, heard, read, or thought about this week. Best reads 📚 There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America by Jamelle Bouie, one NYT columnist who does actually get it right when it comes to understanding the dangerous attacks on trans people. “Politicians and those of us…

A few interesting things I’ve seen, heard, read, or thought about this week. A little belated… Best reads 📚 Why There Was No Racial Reckoning: Systemic Problems Will Not Be Solved by Representational Victories by my colleague (how cool is that?) Wesley Lowery. “Racism can reside not just in the heart of a…

I highlight a few interesting things I’ve seen, heard, read, or thought about this week. This is not an official newsletter of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, but I’ll share some updates about the engagement journalism program as well. …

Celebrating all our students learned over the course of the program — On December 14 at 5:30pm, please join engagement journalism students as they share the results from the last year and a half of work listening to communities and coming up with creative ways to meet their information needs. The class of 2022 has worked with Afghan immigrants, people suffering from…

A new group of students joins us to find new ways to meet communities’ information needs — Hari Adivarekar Hari Adivarekar is an independent photographer, director/producer, journalist, podcaster, radio jockey, yoga practitioner, urban explorer, and in a different life, a singer in a rock and roll band. His work has been published by BBC News, Al Jazeera, National Geographic Traveler India, and commissioned by Red Bull, Greenpeace and Amnesty…

Good to be back to journalism conferencing for the first time in more than two years — On April 1 and 2, I finally broke out ye old carry-on bag and headed back to my favorite journalism conference, the International Symposium for Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. It was both strange and invigorating to be talking to people in person, instead of squares on a Zoom screen…