Reporting on Religion: TFAS European Journalism Institute 2021 Virtual Seminar

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Megan Clark and Julie Ashe Session 3 of the EJI 2021 Virtual Seminar explores reporting on religion during pandemics, the challenges associated with reporting on several different religions, and understanding the role of religion in people’s everyday lives with TFAS professor Ibrahim Al-Marashi ’01, Megan Clark of Religion Unplugged, and Julie Asher of Catholic News Service. This webinar was recorded in August 2021. 

Uprooted by Grace Olmstead

Grace Olmstead What do we owe the places we leave behind? Grace Olmstead, Novak ’15, a journalist in Washington, D.C., left her small farm town of Emmett, Idaho, to pursue prosperity and progress. In her newly released book “Uprooted,” she examines the heartbreaking consequences of uprooting—for Emmett, and for the greater heartland America. TFAS Journalism Fellowships Director Dan McCarthy interviews Olmstead in a webinar on March 25, 2021, for an exclusive look into the creation of her first book.

Covid-19: Response and Recovery

Mollie Hemingway and Dan McConchie The COVID 19 crisis has shaped our world like no other event since World War II. Governments have expanded authority over every aspect of our lives and now that the crisis is subsiding we are left to wonder if they will give back those powers or exercise them with more frequency. Compounding our problems is the global shutdown that has killed countless jobs and businesses causing more people than ever to look to those same governments for solutions to the problems these shutdowns have caused.