Carolyn Nielsen

Home / Features / Emerging Reporters in a Nascent Democracy: How Tunisian Pre-Professional Journalists Perceive and Use Social Media in Their Work Abstract Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution facilitated the development of the nation’s first press freedoms. The success of the 2011 revolution is often attributed to social media, which played an influential role as a means of catalyzing resistance and communicating atrocities. However, social media was also used as a tool of disinformation.

We probably all groaned simultaneously. “Start doing it to me and we’ll get along just fine,” said Gregg Doyel, a middle-aged male sports journalist, at the first press conference Caitlin Clark gave after being selected as the No. 1 WNBA draft pick by the Indiana Fever. The columnist for The Indianapolis Star had just flashed the “heart” sign that Clark gives to her family at games and apparently thought flirting with a 22-year-old was clever or endearing. It wasn’t. It was just creepy.

By Carolyn Nielsen and Andrew Donaldson Western Washington University BELLINGHAM – The proposed coal and bulk shipping terminal at Cherry Point faces a key decision –– expected Friday, June 24 –– as the Whatcom County Planning and Development Department decides whether to require the terminal’s proponents to obtain a new permit to build a pier northwest of Bellingham.