
Linking the Ivory Tower to the Newsroom
This is a guest post from Shelia B. Lawani, a member of the Our Shared Future Opinion Leaders Network. Ms. Lawani, journalist and lecturer at the Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland, is currently the Special Advisor to the Publisher at Foreign Policy magazine. The conference in Southeast Asia started harmfully enough on that hot and sticky

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In 2010, “Ground Zero mosque” was used thousands of times by media outlets around the world, racking up numerous headlines, column inches and minutes of airtime. But there are two things wrong with that phrase. First, the mosque wasn’t going to be built at Ground Zero but nearby in New York’s Financial District. Second, it wasn’t just a mosque that
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