Gateway Journalism Review

2 weeks ago | gatewayjr.org | Elizabeth Tharakan

Iowa is one of the leading states for book bans in America, second only to Florida, according to PEN America. Earlier this year, Iowa’s state Board of Education adopted the rules for a sweeping 2023 education law. The law — and the rules that enforce it — ban “sexual content” in school library books and require them to be “age appropriate.”The law also bans both discussion and instruction through sixth grade pertaining to gender identity and sexual orientation.

3 weeks ago | gatewayjr.org | Don Corrigan

In an age of digital media, podcasts and streaming, the good-old-days of community radio seem to be at an end – not with a bang or even a whimper. It’s more about lawyers conversing in bankruptcy court.  In St. Louis, KDHX is deep in the red and close to pulling the plug. That’s not the story 100 miles to the west in Columbia. That’s where KOPN fans  insist community radio is alive, and well, and making noise for the future.

2 months ago | gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel

French publication Le Monde headlined this week that it was “The week the US shook Europe’s world.”Americans could justifiably say it’s the month that shook ours. There is no precedent for President Donald Trump’s massive restructuring of the government with a flurry of executive orders, pronouncements, firings and pardons that have overturned norms, violated laws and demoralized civil servants. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali.

2 months ago | gatewayjr.org | Elizabeth Tharakan

The Marshall Project opened a local nonprofit newsroom in St. Louis to support local media with investigative and data journalism about the criminal justice system. St. Louis is the third city in the New York-based Marshall Project’s local network. The other two are Clevaland and Jackson, Mississippi. “This newsroom is several years in the making. Over the last 20 years, you’ve seen a decrease in manpower for the states.

2 months ago | gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel

While President Donald Trump unleashes a torrent of legally questionable exertions of power, Congress sits by compliantly, the U.S. Supreme Court remains unengaged and the Fourth Estate shrinks from its role as a watchdog of presidential abuse. Media executives even curry favor with the man they’re supposed to be watching. In short, the check and balances of the Constitution are hauntingly silent.