by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Apr 20, 2017 | Food for Thought, Stories
The Trump administration’s second attempt to exclude visitors to the United States based on their nationalities (and hence by default their religion) remains stalled in the courts, for now. But its chilling effect lingers and grows, especially for U.S. universities....
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Nov 4, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
In October 2015, Informatíon, a newspaper based in Copenhagen, Denmark, experimented by allowing refugee journalists to guest-edit an entire issue. In this episode of Crossings Radio, research fellow Emerson Malone speaks with Informatíon’s senior foreign...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Aug 23, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – A year full of murky business dealings and unanswered questions became infinitely more horrifying for Buenos Aires newspaper Tiempo Argentino, when a gang of thugs attacked their building. Even worse, police at the scene of the crime helped...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Aug 23, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
Every five years since 1995, the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) publishes a report tracking the representation of women in national and world media. Although an important tool for observing world trends in gender inequality, the GMMP report is less helpful to...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Aug 17, 2016 | Stories
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — “I hope you have the courage to live your own life,” the self-described “difficult old man” instructed a couple of dozen University of Oregon students and faculty gathered around him in Montevideo’s ornate Legislative...