By Gwen Schanker, Editorial Columnist
Two weeks ago, I attended a panel hosted by the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, which discussed the challenges of court reporting. Social media entered the conversation within the first five minutes as...
By Sean Connolly, Editorial Section Editor
TThe last week has been full of important, world-shaking events. President Barack Obama made a formal announcement rejecting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain and the presidents of China...
By Rowan Walrath, Managing Editor
On Monday, the University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe made national headlines when he resigned amid student protests against his handling of racial incidents on campus.
However, many argue even though Wolfe’s resignation is...
Why don’t adjunct faculty – the majority of educators at Northeastern University – have offices?
This is the question the adjunct faculty union has been asking the administration for over a year as we bargain unsuccessfully to change our dismal working conditions on campus.
The...
By Sean Connolly, Editorial Section Editor
This Tuesday was election day, and in the grand American tradition, citizens came out to choose their leaders. While this was not a year of congressional or presidential races, there were still important decisions to be made throughout...
By Gwen Schanker, Editorial Columnist
The debate over the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is central to today’s scientific discourse. While scientists continuously investigate how genetic modification can be used to improve nutritional content, pest resistance...
We learn from a young age that context is everything – pushing a classmate out of malice is not the same as pushing him to defend your little sister. Still, somewhere in recent years we have stopped asking for context, satisfied with the limited snippets of information we encounter...
By Sean Connolly, Editorial Section Editor
The offensive nature of the Confederate flag has become an issue of massive national discussion. There was a massive spark at the end of June, when activist Bree Newsome climbed the flag pole at the South Carolina State House and...
Photo: Members of the Progressive Student Alliance attend a City Life / Vida Urbana rally in Dorchester to protest the eviction of longtime homeowner Christina Soares
The millions of dollars recently committed to affordable housing in Massachusetts is a response to the crisis...
By Ross Beroff, Editorial Columnist
It's in our nature as humans to classify things and other people and put them into groups. We love to do it, and not much can be done about that. However, there are groups of people that are very against putting anyone into any sort of group...
By Sean Connolly, Editorial Section Editor
Donald Trump is currently the leading presidential candidate for the Republican Party. A CNN poll on Tuesday found that Trump currently has 27 percent of the expected Republican vote, while Ben Carson, his only real competitor, has...
By Gwen Schanker, Editorial Columnist
Last week, I discussed aggregation in my journalism ethics class. Aggregators collect journalistic information, either from an individual or group of sources, and repurpose that material in a different form. There are several different...
