Tag / Latest News
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News Does Not Need 24 Hours
In middle school, I spent most of my weekend mornings watching Sports Center. The show would last for one hour, and then start up again with a repeat of the same show. Each day, it presented highlights and scores of the previous day’s games and discussion of the current day’s sporting events. ESPN would use…
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Our Deranged Media
Even though it has been over two months since the Inauguration, and even longer since Election Day, the sight of Donald Trump in the White House still feels like a dream – or, more aptly, a nightmare. That a man so manifestly unqualified for the office of the presidency and so obviously uninterested in its…
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A Late-Afternoon Chat with Vox’s Ezra Klein
Interview by Grace Portelance and Sam Klein | Photo by Zeke Saucedo WUPR invited Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox, to address the Wash U community last month before the debate on our campus. Before his speech in Graham Chapel, editors-in-chief Grace Portelance and Sam Klein (no relation) sat down with Mr. Klein for an interview…
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The “Oppressed” Muslim Woman
We have a new damsel in distress in the media: the Muslim woman. You know the image I’m talking about – a woman peering at you through black fabric, her eyes begging for help, her hijab representing the binding shackles of Islam. Maybe instead of just one woman there is a group, a wave of…
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WUPR Debrief Episode 1
WUPR Debrief is a panel discussion and breakdown of local, national, or international news. Joe Lenoff is the host, and he is joined by a revolving panel of other WU students.
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The Local Beat
BY WILL DOBBS-ALLSOPP Traditional print journalism may be on the decline, but celebrity journalism is in vogue. In the last few months, electoral augur Nate Silver and Wonkblog guru Ezra Klein have each launched highly anticipated sites. This summer, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Leonhardt are rolling…
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The Power of Paper
I was recently going through various boxes, drawers, and bins around my house. Among the pictures of my three-year old self and old VHS tapes, I found one of the most powerful remnants of this millennium: the front page of The New York Times from September 12, 2001. I hadn’t known we still had that,…
