Legal and judiciary systems – Journalism, Technology & Democracy

Getting to know what’s it like being a federal judge

SUSI Scholars’ privileged behind-the-curtains glimpse No country on earth is crime-free. This being true, the challenge facing leaders (globally) is fighting crime and maintaining law and order. The enormity of the challenge (e.g., crime rate and frequency, type, and so…

Diagram of the "Remove, Reduce, Inform" model of misinformation control used at Facebook

Challenging and changing media ecology

The theoretical metaphor of media ecology argues that media outlets are like species that live and interact in an ecosystem. As in any ecosystem, one change impacts the whole environment. For example, the crisis of the print and broadcast media,…

Our Own Private Vortex

It would be difficult to ask this group of professionals and scholars, “Where are we meeting today?” without getting an array of mostly humorous replies. “Room 444, of course,” would be the simple answer. Far from being a 666 scenario,…

“The most important thing for a judge is not professional experience, but patience”*

What are the peculiarities of a precedent-based legal system? How should a judge perceive each judicial situation? These and other questions were addressed by Judge John Tuchi during the extremely informative visit by scholars from the “Journalism. Technology, and Democracy”…

Media and Journalism : Professionalism, Pandemics and technology

Since the global pandemic hit the world at the earlier of 2020, every single aspect of life has been radically changed. In-person class switched to virtual. Unfortunately, not everything could be easily converted to virtual in learning about media and…

SUSI: My Wolf Pack that fights for journalism and democracy

“You should apply.” Those were the words my friend texted me in November 2019. “Think about it! You would spend four weeks in Alabama and a two weeks tour in the USA.” I clicked the link and replied, “Interested.” We…

To be digital, or not to be: Is this a question?

Meditation of a media scholar with no presence on social media “You are not on social media? Are you for real?!“ As a lecturer coming from Albania, a country in which teaching still means ‘teaching theories’ most of the time, one…

“Report! Report! Report! Just tell the truth.”

Cronkite School Writer-in-Residence Terry Greene Sterling shared her stories on immigration issues with our SUSI scholars on Saturday morning (Phoenix time) June 26. Terry is a passionate writer. From her stories, we can feel how much she loves her job.…

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