by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Jul 19, 2016 | Stories
This op-ed by Will Johnson, an adjunct instructor of international studies at the University of Oregon, and Crossings Institute co-director Dr. Peter Laufer was originally published in The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon. To view the original article, click here....
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | May 24, 2016 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
When Alex Ahredtsen, a member of the Denmark Parliament, coined the term “pizza Danish” on a local radio program, he was not testing out his idea for a new breakfast pastry, but rather enforcing his anxiety about the country’s refugee crisis. His reference to “pizza...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Jan 24, 2016 | Conflict Sensitive Reporting, Crossings Radio and Crossings News
(This is part two of a two-part series. Click here for part one.) In this second installment of Behind the Byline, University of Oregon students and professors gather to discuss the ethics of reporting on the Umpqua Community College shooting. The lineup features...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Jan 22, 2016 | Conflict Sensitive Reporting, Crossings Radio and Crossings News
What are the ethics of reporting on a mass shooting? In the wake of the mass shooting at the Umpqua Community College campus in Roseburg, Oregon on Oct. 1, the University of Oregon-UNESCO Crossings Institute hosted a two-part panel forum with those who reported on the...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Jul 15, 2015 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Press Freedom
Ukrainian journalist Anastasia Stanko helped start online news station Hromadske.tv, one of the country’s only public news outlets, to offer an independent, objective voice to the nation where media is often skewed or biased. Hromadske.tv became popular during...