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“In day-to-day political reporting, the Times is hopelessly stuck in the past. Its proud allegiance to presenting ‘both sides’ in a time of political breakdown renders it a handmaiden to the degradation of truth.”

September 11, 2012

Geneva Overholser: Keeping journalism, and journalism school, connected to the public

The USC professor says journalism schools should become “lively centers of campus – and of community – life.”

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Overholser, Geneva. "Geneva Overholser: Keeping journalism, and journalism school, connected to the public." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Sep. 2012. Web. 18 Mar. 2025.

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