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...choice but to change their reporting methods and employment structure. However, this should not come at the cost of journalistic breadth and depth. As such, we regret that many newsrooms across the country have decreased their higher education coverage and eliminated higher education beats writers. While it is always difficult to determine the best way to tighten one’s belt, sacrificing college and university reporting is an unwise cut on the part of many publications...
...Chronicle of Higher Education recently noted, “At a time when newspapers are slashing their staffs and squeezing out education coverage, it is more difficult for colleges to communicate their relevance and messages to the public.” This trend is worrisome, partly because journalists serve the community when they publicize breakthroughs happening at universities. Without such media coverage, it would be difficult to draw attention to new research developments, musical compositions, films, and philosophies that appear in abundance at higher education institutions. While colleges and universities can publicize their own findings, their press releases may suffer...
...model is focused on prevention, and in this country, we don’t fund prevention, we fund illness,” Bennet says. “That can sometimes make it difficult to have people understand the impact and the value of prevention...
...command really knew how bad the situation was outside of Santiago because of the breakdown in communications and what turned out to be inaccurate information. On Wednesday, travel to and communications with Concepción, the big city closest to the 8.8-magnitude quake's epicenter, was still difficult. Lewis arrived there early Monday evening with the Chilean military to find a city that appeared to be completely abandoned. "It was like a ghost town," he tells TIME, "or a bad apocalyptic Hollywood movie. There was smoke from fires that were still raging. Street lamps and traffic lights are still...
...crop has already been harvested, but saltwater is reaching where it has never gone before, putting the summer-fall crop in jeopardy, says Binh. "We are trying to strengthen our irrigation systems to prevent further salinization," he adds, but the extreme conditions are making it "one of the most difficult situations in 100 years." (See pictures of drought in Kenya...