Photo by Graeme Jennings, from Washington Exami On February 11, 2019, The Chicago Maroon published a breaking news update on an armed robbery at the University of Chicago. While there was no problem with the report itself, there was an immediate controversy over the featured image, that of a suspect led by a police man. Many readers thought this suspect looked like a potential minor, and believed that the photo of…

Photo from Russia Beyond After reading “New Beginning or Dead End” by Ardaky Ostrovsky, one important question came to my mind: can freedom of expression in media coexist with socialism? In the context of the Soviet Union, it seemed that no matter how hard Gorbachev sought to reign in the people following the continuation of perestroika in the 1980s, the unfavorable consequences of this political reform were not amendable and…