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...
In 2019, the Massachusetts Attorney General sued Exxon Mobil for deceiving state residents about the company’s contributions to climate change. One of the lawsuit's exhibits featured a New York Times-published piece of “native advertising,” paid content disguised as a...
During my childhood, the only association I had with Virginia was cigarettes, as in Virginia Slims, a brand that promoted smoking as a form of glamorous liberation for women long after we knew cigarettes were deadly. That slogan was “You’ve come a long way, baby” and...
The fight for labor rights operates in tandem with journalism – as organizers assemble workers, news outlets amplify their voices for more of the workforce to hear, coalescing a more powerful force to push against exploitative employers. This spring, media was abuzz...
