Over the last few years, the way we have consumed breaking news has changed radically. Now we live-tweet anything and everything resembling news. Just a few years ago, before Twitter became as popular...
The family of missing journalist James Foley (Medill ‘08) will raise awareness for his disappearance during World Press Freedom Day in Boston.
A May 3 event called “Silenced Voices: When Conflict...
For most of my past, I’ve never been one for flags, ceremonies and rhetoric — the antidote to which being a healthy dose of sarcasm and satire. After all, it’s naive at best; might as well remain...
Forgive me if this column is a bit disorganized. I didn’t sleep much before I wrote it. The news coming out of Massachusetts late Thursday night and early Friday morning was at once riveting and heartbreaking,...
About 15 minutes before the Boston bombings, I saw my friend, a Northwestern alumna, post a photo of herself at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. She wasn’t a runner. She was a spectator, there...
