On January 25th, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a panel to discuss how candid conversations about differences in opinion contribute to healthy democracy and social cohesion. The event, which was held on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...
On November 16, the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts hosted its second annual Ellsberg Lecture. This year’s lecture, which is named for legendary anti-war activist and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, was...
Unlike Corporate News, Indy Media Treats People as Citizens; “Not as Consumers, Not as Objects” The U.S. faces numerous crises that our media infrastructure is struggling to address, stressing the need for critical media literacy and journalism education. Project...
Earlier this month the Democracy & Internet Governance Initiative (DIGI) published a report that aimed to provide a new framework for regulating digital media platforms. The report, which is the culmination of a two-year joint research initiative between Harvard...
As the courtroom seats began filling in the first judicial court in Helena, the capital city of Montana, local community members and officials prepared to hear the long-awaited testimonies from plaintiffs who allege state officials have violated their constitutional...
Outside of the corporate offices and backlots of Netflix, Disney, NBC, Universal, and Warner Brothers, masses of protestors stand with signs that range from serious to hilarious, all with the same message: writers need to be fairly paid for their work. Corporate media...
On March 31 the auditorium of the Roy H. Park School of Communications was full of students listening intently as Greg Palast detailed his experiences as an investigative journalist. An internationally renowned investigative reporter, Palast ran this informal master...
The Park Center for Independent Media recently announced that investigative news outlet The Lever, alongside three other recipients, won the 2023 Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media.” The Lever celebrated its win this weekend in its...
On Friday, March 24, the Park Center for Independent Media and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival hosted a roundtable conversation with the goal of unpacking the multiple voices of Appalachia. This event brought together three contributors to The Edge,...
American journalists guard democracy amid election lies and audiences that dismiss facts as bias. But when clickbait generates revenue and politicians are undeterred by the press, how can news shift to cover a changing political landscape? Three journalists and a...
