Internship: Theresa Devlin at WRFI Community Radio
Theresa Devlin (Fall ’20, Journalism) worked this summer at WRFI Community Radio, where she wrote news stories for weekday evening news, remote co-hosted WRFI Community Radio News broadcasts, and worked on COVID-19 feature stories.
From Federal Crackdown to Understanding Coronavirus Numbers
June 19, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Headlines PCIM Event Webinar: Journalism in Times of Pandemic & Protest (The Park Center for Independent Media) U.S. Politics As Trump Threatens Cities, Philadelphia’s DA […]
How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers
I’ve watched so many reporters, both at ProPublica and at other outlets, do their best to debunk myths, demystify confusing trends and answer the public’s questions. It is, frankly, exhausting, especially when the same arguments keep coming up again and again. I’m also concerned to see not just laypeople, but local and national leaders, using data out of context […]
Stories Dooming Vaccine Hopes Overlook Immunity’s Complexity in Search of Easy Clicks
“With Coronavirus Antibodies Fading Fast, Vaccine Hopes Fade, Too,” read a recent headline in the San Francisco Chronicle (7/17/20). As of July 20, it was the most popular article on the paper’s website—which isn’t surprising, given that it stokes one of many people’s greatest fears right now, which is that there will be no clear end in […]
As the Culture Wars Flare Amid the Pandemic, a Call to Speak ‘Science to Power’
More than a thousand of the nation’s top scientists say it’s time to speak “science to power,” as Covid-19 deaths top 141,000 nationally and cases continue to rise in 43 states. The scientists are calling on policymakers to restore evidence-based decision-making—especially when it comes to managing life-and-death challenges like the global pandemic and climate change. More than […]
Black and Brown Students Are Organizing to Remove Police From Their Schools
Law enforcement has had a brief yet abusive relationship with American public schools, spurring the terrorization of Black and Brown students and increased interaction with law enforcement at a young age. The rationale behind police in schools has always been for the “safety” of children. Yet, since police have shown up, the school to prison pipeline has strengthened, putting young […]
COMMUNITIES OF COLOR POISED TO LOSE THEIR HOMES AS EVICTION MORATORIUMS LIFT
Black and brown Americans — the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it — are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have repeatedly told everyone to hide behind, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of more than 8,000 eviction filings. […]
Trump and DeVos’s Plan to Reopen Schools Hides a Sinister Agenda
Parents of 51 million school-age children in the U.S. are facing an agonizing choice — whether to risk exposing their children to the coronavirus in public school classrooms this fall, or to sacrifice their children’s intellectual, social and emotional development by keeping them home for “online learning” via the web, which even before the pandemic was judged not […]
States Are Begging for Coronavirus Relief. Trump Sent Federal Police Instead.
Every day, reports of unmarked vans with unidentifiable law enforcement agents rounding up protesters in Portland, Oregon, are going viral. Many of those who were detained said they weren’t doing anything illegal. Last week, one man described being blindfolded, taken to a federal courthouse, and read his rights. After he asked for a lawyer, the officers released him. Several news […]
As Trump Threatens Cities, Philadelphia’s DA Prepares to Uphold the Rule of Law
President Trump is naming more and more cities to which his administration may deploy federal agents in order to stop protests against police violence and structural racism. Even as Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is now suing federal officials, alleging that agents who were dispatched to Portland have rounded up people “without warning or explanation, without a […]