Gateway Journalism Review

6 days ago | gatewayjr.org | Elizabeth Tharakan

The number of full-time statehouse reporters who cover capital cities has declined 34% since 2014. To fill this gap, college students are providing a substantial amount of statehouse coverage, including in Illinois and Missouri. There are now 34 university- or college-led statehouse reporting initiatives in 30 states across the country, according to the University of Vermont Center for Community News.

1 week ago | gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel

In 100 days of chaos, President Donald J. Trump has violated laws, ignored time-tested norms, damaged the world’s most respected system of higher education, undermined the world’s leading network of medical and health research facilities, surrendered America’s important instruments of “soft power,” endangered the health of tens of thousands of families around the world and detonated a tariff bomb in the middle of the world’s economy, wiping out $5 trillion in wealth in two days.

2 weeks ago | gatewayjr.org | Allie Miller

The end of this month will mark President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, and in that time his administration has moved to eliminate the Department of Education, ended tribal support for Tribal colleges, removed protections for transgender students, launched investigations into 85 schools and is reviewing billions in funding for colleges and universities.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.