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The Great Organic-Food Fraud
There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.
The Battle To Keep Local Journalism Alive : Fresh Air
In the past 15 years, one in four newspapers has shuttered in the U.S. We talk with Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, editor, and co-owner of 'The Storm Lake Times' in the meatpacking town of Storm Lake, Iowa. He and his family are the subject of a new documentary, called 'Storm Lake,' about the challenges the industry is facing as news moves to free digital platforms and ad revenues dwindle. The film is opening in select theaters and be on PBS Nov. 15.
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Columbia DJ Brent Head creates beats for a better tomorrow | VOX Magazine
The local DJ recently released a debut EP "A Better Tomorrow," which contains uplifting dance tracks
Views of the News: Cyberattacks and the mid-Missouri news media
A few days after Gov. Mike Parson accused a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter of hacking a state website, hundreds of Sinclair Broadcast Group television stations fell victim to a ransomware attack. One of these was a cyberattack, one was reporting. We’ll distinguish between the two. And, is the other shoe about to drop on Facebook? We’ll talk about how the company’s communications team is responding to another set of leaked documents. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.
A People Map of the US
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
Yukari Kashihara's pottery nods to her heritage
COLUMBIA — Yukari Kashihara is surprised and delighted that she has a show of her ceramics at Orr Street Studios. She didn't hesitate when an opening came up.
The Kansas City Beacon is expanding to a second city, Wichita, with nearly $4M raised » Nieman Journalism Lab
The Beacon has plans to create a regional network of nonprofit newsrooms across Kansas and Missouri.
Coronavirus All But Killed Live Music In Missouri, Leaving Venues Asking For Federal Money
Claire McCaskill's Nasty 'Transsexuals' Line on MSNBC — Discourse Blog
Why is anyone turning to this political failure for advice?
Missouri’s public defender system is unconstitutional | The Kansas City Sta
There’s disorder in the court. Here’s how Missouri cheats poor defendants.
Kid detectives help police find missing 97-year-old woman - ABC News
Logan Hultman, 10, hopped on his bicycle with his friends on Monday, after hearing through a helicopter announcement that police were searching for a 97-year-old woman.
On Being Midwestern
The burden of normality: What does it mean to be Midwestern?
Josh Hawley Says Tech Enables 'Some of the Worst of America'
From social media addiction to antitrust regulation, the freshman senator from Missouri wants to take on Big Tech in big ways.
Columbia Jazz Orchestra is on the upswing | Music | Vox Magazine
Please, don't stop the music
College newsrooms challenge an industry’s status quo
In early June, as Black Lives Matter activists protested police brutality and killings, the editors of The Maneater, the University of Missouri’s student newspaper, gathered on a Zoom call to discuss their own part in the nationwide reckoning with racial injustice. Like many other student groups, The Maneater had recently published an Instagram post expressing […]