Trust in news is down (but trust in the Internet is worse)
By JACI CLEMENT // Let’s talk about truth. Big-picture truth. If you only follow the headlines, you’d think the biggest crisis in our information system is that people no longer…
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Atomic radio: SBU fills the air with nuclear options
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s most ambitious pro-environmentalism platform is taking its climate-health message on the road – more specifically, to the airwaves. Known colloquially as “C4E,” SBU’s Collaborative…
No. 977: On biofabrication, burial grounds and beauty – and the launch of our first-ever Reader Survey!
Looking ahead: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we muscle through another busy early-Summer workweek – an appropriately humid one here on Long Island, though better weather is in…
Truth to power: LI journalism must remain above the fray
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // National politics have increasingly become the gravitational center of American journalism. From inflation and immigration to trade policy and housing costs, stories that once sat…
No. 961: Laborers lament, vitamins vitalize, ‘Liberation’ hits hard and (almost) all newspeople feel the love
Mud in your eye: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we wrap up another busy workweek and look toward another well-earned weekend – though unfortunately, it’s looking like a…
Jeffrey Goldberg and the journalism ethics we forgot
By JACI CLEMENT // Jeffrey Goldberg found himself smack in the middle of a national security blunder – and responded like a journalist from another era. When The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was…
No. 922: The election from Hell, Halloween and other terrors, with candy corn (yikes!) and cabbage (eek!)
Fear itself: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as harrowing horrors, ghastly ghouls, brain-dead beasts and other morbid monstrosities terrorize townsfolk and curse the countryside. It’s also the night before…