Objectivity Is Complicated. Let’s Start Acknowledging That.
“There is a bit of the reformer in anyone who enters journalism.”
This quote from late media critic and journalism professor James W. Carey is...
Q&A with Ted Conover, Head of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Part 2:...
Read Part I of the interview here.
WSN (cont.): Do you have thoughts on the idea of how to prepare students for a world where...
Go Digital Or Go Home
There is more than one way to tell a story. In the age of digital resources, social media and streaming, it is imperative that...
Q&A with Ted Conover, Part 1: On Journalism Education at NYU
WSN: Do you have thoughts on the idea of how to prepare students for a world where information is so readily available? How can...
Journalism as a Form of Advocacy
Last year, student journalist Rebecca Schneid from Stoneman Douglas High School — the site of a deadly 2018 school shooting — gained lots of...
What It Means to Tell the Story
On Sept. 25, 1690, “Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick” was distributed in Boston, becoming the first newspaper published in the Americas. By Sept....
So You Want to Be a Writer
So. You want to be a writer.
In the first of his “Letters to a Young Poet,” Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke gently tells an...
Q&A with Professor Mitchell Stephens: On Opinions, Bias and the Future of Storytelling
Read Part I here.
WSN: What is the gray area of differentiating between information dissemination and journalism? Twitter can be used for people who are...
How the Twitter Revolution Went From Green to Red, White and Blue
On June 12, 2009, the streets of Tehran radically combusted into protest. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s ultra-conservative Islamist President, had just been re-elected for a...
Letter From the Editor: Future of Journalism
2018 was the deadliest year on record for the killing of journalists internationally. We heard of these horrific, politically-motivated tragedies, like that of the...
Q&A with Professor Mitchell Stephens, Part I: How History Informs the Future and How...
WSN: How do you feel that we are preparing future journalists for this incoming era in terms of journalism education at NYU in particular?...
A Semester in Review
This past semester, we’ve strived to accurately and critically cover the state of NYU. As the Editorial Board of WSN, we have a sense...
