Journalism in the 21st Century

  SIMON NIXON;ย THE TIMESย AND JOURNALISM IN THE 21STCENTURY On Tuesday afternoon a group of students and I met with Simon Nixon, Chief Leader Writer ofย The Times; where Simon discussed his career and the role/nature of journalism. Simon is also Chief European Commentator of the Wall Street Journal. He joined the WSJ in 2008 and was…

Point of Poetry

Saying โ€œI donโ€™t like poetryโ€ is like saying โ€œI donโ€™t like booksโ€ โ€“ there are so many different types of poems, in so many different styles and forms, that itโ€™s virtually impossible to group them into a single category. In an ode to the odes, poetry critic Stephen Burt demonstrates through lyrical explication that the practice of poetry…

Why do we still study Shakespeare?

Shakespeare died more than 400 years ago & has written 37 plays and 154 sonnets. But why do we still study Shakespeare after all this time?  When the First Folio of Shakespeareโ€™s work was published in 1623 โ€“ fellow writers concluded that Shakespeare was โ€˜not of an age, but for all timeโ€™. As Bruce Smith,…

Tis’ the most wonderful time of the year.

โ˜† Wสœแด€แด› ษชs สแดแดœส€ า“แด€แด แดแดœส€ษชแด›แด‡ Cสœส€ษชsแด›แดแด€s แดแดแด ษชแด‡?โ˜† ๐˜”๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜บ โ€œ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บโ€ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‘๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜‰๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ. ๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ด, ๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ธ! ๐˜–๐˜ณ โ€œ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บโ€ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ. โ˜† Wสœแด‡ส€แด‡ แด…แด สแดแดœ แดœsแดœแด€สŸสŸส sแด˜แด‡ษดแด… Cสœส€ษชsแด›แดแด€s?โ˜† ๐˜ˆ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ! ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ…