The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion
Now that the fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion, many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in, and limiting access to, hormonal contraception – including the pill. Credit: Photo collage by Sarah Mirk for Reveal. Photo credits: SSPL, Justin Sullivan, and Drew Angerer via Getty…
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This class is the first seven weeks of the semester. Class times will be 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, and 3/1. This class is for non-audio track students designed to teach the basics of audio journalism. If you’ve never taken an audio class at the J-School and you want an opportunity to learn the…
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This class is the next sequence for first-year audio track students who took the Audio J200 with Shereen. Other non-audio track students interested in learning a little bit of audio should take J219 Introduction to Audio. The goal of this class is to produce captivating, narrative, long-form audio stories. Students will learn the fundamentals of…
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J211 Reporting the News Lab – Audio
This is a lab to complement J200.
Read MoreDancing away the loneliness: In the UK, social prescriptions help fight isolation during the pandemic
(Pictured above: A Posh Club performer leads club-goers in a conga-line. Peter Robertshaw/The World.) By Sofie Kodner and Zachary Fletcher This story appeared in The World on June 16, 2022. Click below to listen to Sofie Kodner’s audio story. Sylvia Fifer always loved to dance. Now 85, she met her husband at a dance in…
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J276 Digital Accountability: Exploring Section 230
There are 26 words that changed the world. “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These words are enshrined in the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The statute, which has been in effect for…
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Alumni Portrait: Alyssa Jeong Perry of NPR’s “Code Switch”
For Alyssa Jeong Perry (’16), the recent wave of anti-Asian violence has underscored the need to report on the diversity within the Asian American community. Perry, who is Korean American, is a producer at National Public Radio’s “Code Switch” podcast, where she feels fortunate to be able to report deeply on issues of race, ethnic…
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