David Simon hates the war on drugs. But he doesn’t hate all police. He takes issue with police militarization, but he doesn’t have time for slogans. In fact, he’ll cuss out anything from “ACAB” on the left to “Back the Blue” on the right. For him, the solutions to problematic law enforcement, even here in Minneapolis, are more complex than slogan-chanting political action, but not impossible. A longtime Baltimore Sun crime reporter-turned-author, screenwriter and TV producer, Simon is most...

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Arbana Xharra, 17, remembers reaching the border, where Serbian military officers took her family’s identification documents. On the Albanian side, international reporters pushed microphones in front of her to ask what genocide looked like. “Killing people on the streets, I see,” she said in one Associated Press clip that survives on YouTube. “I see them in the streets, killing. I see three people and one little child.” That’s when her journalism dreams began.

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How starting large-group classes with comprehensive Google Forms surveys can transform the classroom dynamic, personalize assignments for students and increase active participation and engagement. A sortable spreadsheet of biographical info about all students in a large-group class – in this case, a 120-student JOUR101 Principles of Mass Media class, essentially the course that introduces students to the college and industry – can be used to help instructors better understand their classroom au

Nebrasketball provides a full-access account of Tim Miles’s path to Nebraska and his team’s inaugural season in the $186 million Pinnacle Bank Arena. With full access to Miles and the team, Scott Winter provides basketball fans with an intimate look at a rising star in college basketball, detailing what it’s like to coach an NCAA men’s program today with all of its triumphs and struggles, along with Miles’s larger story as a transformational coach who has made Nebraska basketball, and other college programs, relevant. The book also shows the small-town legacy and tenacity that created Miles, including his mother’s prodding, his benching as a college player, and his significant history of losing, which he claims was his most important mentor.

Textura is an international storytelling project from Bethel University's Journalism and Graphic Design programs. See more about the project at SeekTextura.com

The fantasy is visceral and consequential and really pretty easy. We step out into the alley behind the Zoo Bar, the three of us, and Pete and I light up our straight Marlboros, not the Lights we’ve been smoking with the idea of tapering off to healthier lungs and longer lives. But who needs to prolong lives like these, anyway?

She was shy, and that’s what drew aspiring photojournalist Shelby Wolfe to her. Her name was Rahel Nunu. Fourteen years old and hidden beneath a green scarf and brown skirt, she lived in a compound in Addis Ababa for Ethiopian children turned into orphans by the AIDS pandemic. Living HIV positive in a country where the disease is so stigmatized had taught Rahel the value of discretion. It was May, the hottest month in the Horn of Africa, but she insisted on covering her arms with the scarf: her

A group of student photojournalists from Nebraska learn about more than photography as they chronicle the experiences of the downtrodden in India. By Scott Winter Scott Winter (swinter2@unl.edu) is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.       junkie wandered over as Andrew Dickinson finished off a bottle of water in the 109-degree heat. The American college student had been shaking hands, memorizing names and asking questions of the heroin users at the par