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Mandi Rink Nominated for Best News Story in INA Better Newspaper Contest, More Mid-America Staffers Also Nominated
The Iowa Newspaper Association’s annual awards gala is coming up this week, on Thursday. And, once again we have a local nominee for an award
Suit Alleging Suppression of Free Speech Met With Skepticism at U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday of a lawsuit alleging the federal government colluded with social media companies to suppress the freedom
The End of Anti-Woke Politics?
Well, well, well — look who’s waking up and raring to go: Mr. and Ms. Woke! We so-called “woke” people have been the target of
Bill to split TikTok from Chinese ownership gets unanimous vote from key U.S. House panel
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on the powerful U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a White House-supported bill that would force TikTok to split from
‘A product that’s killing people’: Lawmakers chastise social media giants for harm to kids
Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee castigated executives at leading social media companies Wednesday, calling for more to be done to shield children from
Kids are flooded with social media and news. Some states want to help them question it.
Media literacy classes have attracted bipartisan support, but some critics see a ‘woke’ agenda Young people may be digital natives, but many of them aren’t
Twitter lifted its ban on COVID misinformation – research shows this is a grave risk to public health
Twitter’s decision to no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy, quietly posted on the site’s rules page and listed as effective Nov. 23, 2022, has
Social media provides flood of images of death and carnage from Ukraine war – and contributes to weaker journalism standards
Editor's note: The wars in Ukraine and elsewhere on our planet are, as wars tend to be, brutal and rife with tragedy. In today's world,
7 ways newspapers benefit students
Classrooms have come a long way since the days when pioneering settlers would send their children to single-room schoolhouses. Modern classrooms might be technical marvels,
