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Margaret Atwood: English lessons teach us to miss the true meaning of literature

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Every time I teach a college literature class, I have to budget time in the syllabus to help my students…

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Blogging the latest developments in a story I use in my journalism classes. “When I got off the phone, I…

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What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake?

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This sounds a lot like wishful thinking, but there's plenty to learn from well-articulated alternate opinions. What if, in the…

Readers Are Liars: The 1928 Study That Predicted the Future of News

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The invention of the telegraph and the syndication of news brought national and even international news to local readers. This…

How “Hail Mary” Became Inextricably Linked to American Football

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I am revamping an existing "News Writing" course so that it becomes "News, Arts and Sports Reporting," and am thus…

The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991.

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As a child, I obsessed over many Richard Scarry books. I liked What Do People Do All Day best, but…

Rolling Stone heading to trial over debunked story of UVa rape

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For the first time since Rolling Stone magazine's shocking story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia…

Fake News Taints Facebook’s Trending Topics

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In an experiment conducted over several weeks following Facebook's promotion of the fake Megyn Kelly story, the Post recorded which…

Imagine, if you will, a Shakespeare course / Propos’d in blank verse like the Bard would write

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Verses Proposing a New Course: "Shakespeare in Context" You'll pick a modest count of Shakespeare plays-- Say, five. Three weeks to each you'll dedicate. One context week,…