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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

What is the objective of objectivity?

Oftentimes, one of the first lessons a journalist learns is that objectivity is crucial to reporting. From high school newsrooms to professional journalists, the idea of presenting both sides of a story, without any insertion of opinion, has historically been taught as one of the cornerstones of good reporting. But as the news continues to change, along with the reporters who cover it, some journalists are left wondering: What if objectivity isn’t all we’ve made it out to be? Leonard Downie Jr...

Monday, July 31, 2023

Summer internship gives ASU student hands-on experience with US Supreme Court

Arizona State University student Logan Higgins has had a long-standing interest in public policy and politics. So when it came time for the California native to decide where to attend college after high school, ASU’s offerings in those fields made her decision an easy one. “I knew I was prelaw and I knew I wanted to go to Washington, D.C., at some point, so I was looking for schools that had good programs for that,” Higgins said. “ASU is partnered with the McCain Institute, and I knew they...

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

ASU Indigenous TV affiliate broadcasts interview with Vice President Kamala Harris

ICT, the independent, Indigenous-serving news enterprise housed at Arizona State University, is serving up a history-making moment with another history maker — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. On July 7, Harris, the nation’s first female vice president, visited the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, marking the first visit from a sitting president or vice president for the Indigenous nation. And ICT News was there. In collaboration with Arizona PBS, ICT broadcasted its historic interview...

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

International report on emerging technologies highlights ASU's role in supporting direction, development

In 2015, the World Economic Forum named the gene-editing tool CRISPR as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of the year. Five years later, its inventors won a Nobel Prize. In 2017, the World Energy Council foretold the importance of mRNA vaccines, the technology that delivered COVID-19 vaccines to billions worldwide. Since 2012, the World Economic Forum's Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report has identified technologies that are poised to positively impact society over the next three to...

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bipartisan roundtable addresses urgent question: How and when will US diplomacy modernize?

Senate leaders, diplomats, journalists and advocates gathered at the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C., on May 31 to discuss how to modernize the U.S. Foreign Service, and how the American Diplomacy Project blueprint can be put into action. Moderated by CNN national security correspondent Kylie Atwood, the bipartisan roundtable discussion between Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., focused on how the State Department plans to address modernization. The event’...

Wednesday, June 07, 2023

ASU leaders meet to advance partnerships with top Taiwanese universities

Earlier this year, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) broke ground on its $40 billion investment of two chip manufacturing centers in north Phoenix, ASU announced its role in scaling the industry in Arizona. Since then, the Taiwanese government and leading Taiwanese universities have sought out ASU as a partner in developing the skilled workforce needed for thriving global exchange between the two nations’ economies. That focus — advancements in postsecondary engineering and...

Friday, May 26, 2023

Thunderbird Executive Education programs earn No. 20 in world ranking by Financial Times

The Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University has been recognized by the Financial Times Executive Education rankings for 2023 for its exceptional delivery of custom and open enrollment programs. Rele ased on May 22, the prestigious global ranking places Thunderbird’s Executive Education custom programs at No. 20 worldwide — ahead of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge — and No. 4 in the United States, among the top 75 programs globally. The 2023...

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

ASU-Slate publication catches attention of Hollywood movie makers

An ASU partnership may have come up with a new formula for producing speculative fiction. A short story written for Future Tense Fiction — a partnership between Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination , Slate magazine and New America — is getting the Hollywood treatment. David Iserson “This, But Again,” written by TV and film scribe David Iserson, is being adapted into a film to be directed by actor and filmmaker Ben Stiller. A story about love, fate, memory, living in...

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Preventing space war the focus of cross-sector experts at ASU forum

“Space has become essential to our security and prosperity.” Those words were among the first spoken Wednesday by Lt. Gen. DeAnna M. Burt at the Preventing Space War forum hosted and sponsored by Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative. Burt, the deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear for the U.S. Space Force, was the keynote speaker at the forum, held at ASU’s Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center in Washington, D.C. The forum also included panel...

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