Before joining the Hechinger Report, Meredith Kolodner worked at different New York daily newspapers on both business and education beats. But since arriving at the Report about ten years ago, she’s been immersed in in-depth education reporting.

Raven Schwam-Curtis, a New York native and social media influencer, launched her TikTok account in 2021 to break down long-winded, often hard to understand topics into videos her audience could digest in less than a minute. “I became really invested in this idea of democratizing intellectual inf

In an increasingly rare move for a print publication, especially with the abrupt closure of The Riverfront Times, Chicago’s alt-weekly is expanding its print operations.

Five months after police raided the Marion County Record in Kansas, drawing international media attention, newsrooms across the state are still reeling from the unprecedented seizure of cell phones and computers.

This has played out in real time the past seven weeks at Columbia College Chicago, where I am the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the Columbia Chronicle. From this vantage point, I’ve watched the union, and more recently, the college, use social media to debunk each other’s claims and draw

In a sweeping decision, the US Supreme Court rejected two conservative states’ push to enforce more aggressive law enforcement initiatives against undocumented immigrants. The ruling in late June marked a major win to the Biden administration, as the 8-1 decision revives the president’s immigrat

The city of Chicago will direct half of its advertising dollars to smaller local news outlets in the new year through a measure long sought by independent media outlets.

Growing up in rural Iowa, Becky Vonnahme didn’t have access to many local news sources. Now, as part-time executive director of the Western Iowa Journalism Foundation, Vonnahme has discovered why. Small publications, like small businesses, have a hard time getting funded. After all, ad sales alone j

Rugs are so central to Afghan culture they often are used as currency. So it is a shock when refugees must leave their rugs behind. Having a traditional rug in their new place can help them adjust.

According to the Journal Sentinel review of hundreds of state and federal inspection reports, officials cited 133 of Wisconsin’s 360 nursing homes.