Jack Shafer cited University of Maine media historian Michael Socolow in a Politico opinion piece titled “Tom Cotton Did Us a Favor by Exposing a Bad Law with a Bad Op-Ed.” Sen. Cotton had penned a New York Times op-ed titled “Send in the Troops” in response to protests against racism and police brutality. Readers […]
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The Bangor Daily News published Michael Socolow’s opinion piece “Caught in the Crossfire: Journalism’s ‘Objectivity’ Problem in Times of Civil Unrest” that was first a guest blog on Ralph E. Hanson’s Living in a Media World site dedicated to current news on journalism and mass communication issues. “Every attack on a working journalist is an […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column from Mitch Mason, an associate extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, titled “Refugee and asylum seekers in Maine are future volunteers.” Mason, a 4-H Youth and Family Development extension educator, is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column by Lenard Kaye, a professor of social work and director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, titled “Older adults are facing dual public health emergencies.” Kaye is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the […]
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The Washington Post published an opinion piece from Michael Socolow, an associate professor in communication and journalism at the University of Maine, titled “The media must make it easier to track President Trump’s covid-19 failures.” Socolow will become the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at UMaine in July.
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Tora Johnson, chair of the division of environmental and biological sciences at the University of Maine at Machias, co-authored an opinion piece published in the Portland Press Herald titled “COVID maps don’t tell the whole story about where virus has spread.” Johnson also is an associate professor of Geographic Information Systems and director of the […]
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Robert Glover, an associate professor of political science and Honors at the University of Maine, and Kevin Fitzpatrick, a third-year political science student at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Maine’s post COVID-19 economic recovery depends on a fair and accurate census.” Glover is co-leader of the Maine Chapter of […]
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The Conversation published media historian Michael Socolow’s column about U.S. presidents’ use of broadcasting to calm the nation in times of duress. The associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism wrote that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first “fireside chat” 87 years ago from the White House reached an estimated 60 million listeners and proved […]
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Undark Magazine published an opinion essay on wildlife policy and Lyme disease by Elyse DeFranco, an ecology and environmental sciences master’s student at the University of Maine. The essay draws on research led by Susan Elias while completing her Ph.D. at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, which found that maintaining deer populations below a certain threshold […]
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Slate published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, titled “Does Football Bear Responsibility for a Chiefs Legend’s 1980 Murder-Suicide?”
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