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BONUS: Secrecy and the Coronavirus
As we all know, the pandemic changed the way that everything worked, including us. We had to re-jigger some things and figure out a way to work remotely and still get it done, just like everybody else did. Oh wait, not everybody. Somehow government agencies everywhere had a particularly hard time making the switch, in so many cases, they instead opted for complete shutdown mode and that meant a lot of FOIA offices just went dark, stopped working.
Dallas school district says public records requests can be indefinitely delayed in pandemic
All across the country we're seeing government offices of all shapes and sizes use the pandemic as an excuse
Episode 8: Up in Flames
What comes to mind when you think of a college town? Old brick buildings covered in ivy, some narrow, tree-lined streets, with little bookstores and coffee shops. That’s because the biggest public universities are generally in small towns. Towns that share few common demographic and geographic features. A lot of them are more than 150 years old,many in areas that are rural. Often, the towns around them are very dependent on the university economy and often, even with the financial prop of being a university town and they are still economically depressed.
RAs at Cal Poly fear retaliation in talking about COVID19 outbreak in dorms, student news site reports
October 1, 2020 In our first WDWK episode "EXTRA," we explored how many public universities unconstitutionally gag
Episode 7: Public, Not Public
What happened here, at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, it wasn’t a sex scandal, or a sports scandal, or any of those scandals that make for salacious headlines. This one didn’t really get a ton of attention. It was a financial scandal, a white collar crime case that mostly took place behind the scenes.
North Carolina U’s contradict themselves on open searches
In episode six, The Portal, we mentioned that North Carolina State's current chancellor, Randy Woodsen, was chosen in a
Episode 6: The Portal
It’s been said that journalists report the first draft of history. Certainly, it is true that reporters witness a lot of stuff before the rest of the world knows about it. And a lot of what we see does not immediately make it into news reports. Sometimes notes stay in our reporter notebooks, or in the margins of our brain until one day, something happens that makes those observations relevant. That’s kind of how this episode happened. This wasn’t something originally on our list of areas to investigate. And so, unlike most of the other episodes, where lots of open records requests helped us figure out where there are gaps in data, this episode is not like that.
EXTRA: When speech isn’t free, but it should be
As students return to campus amidst a global pandemic, news stories are popping up, citing the concerns of resident
Episode 5: What is a FOIA Anyway?
Unlike our freedom of speech, freedom of information is something that comes, not from the constitution, but from laws. There is a federal statute that guarantees freedom of information. You might hear people talking about FOIA. FOIA is technically the Federal Freedom of Information Act, and it’s used in shorthand to describe the request for documents from a federal agency. Sometimes people also interchange that and use it to describe documents requested from state agencies, in our case, those agencies were state departments of education and state universities. State schools are subject to open records laws because they are funded by taxpayer dollars. Each state actually each has its own slightly different records law. You might sometimes hear people refer to these as sunshine laws.
University of Utah doubles down on media policy identified by WDWK as violating the First Amendment
In Episode 2, we revealed that many major universities have unconstitutional policies, gagging the rights of student athletes,
Episode 4: The Blame Game
At the beginning of this project when we started thinking about the concept of this podcast, Why Don’t We Know, I knew that misconduct inside the walls of college fraternities would need to be part of our research. It’s one of those sadly persistent stories, it always seems to be hovering, even if just below the surface, it’s never long before it rises up again, swallowing another unsuspecting family into the dark void of senseless heartbreak. When it does, we as a society are always left asking the same questions. Rarely with satisfying answers. And there’s no one reason for that. Which is probably why it’s been such an impossible problem to solve.
Episode 3: A Deadly Reversal
In 1977, professors at one of the largest public universities in the country started complaining that parts of the ceiling in their offices and classrooms were flaking off and falling. The university conducted a study, widespread testing in more than 100 buildings to find out; what is this stuff? Is it dangerous? It turns out, it most certainly is.
Episode 2: More Than Just a Code of Silence
When we set out to report about head injuries in college sports, we knew we wanted to hear from athletes, but we also knew we probably wouldn’t get very many of them to talk to us. And that hunch was right. Only two returned our calls and only one would talk on the record. And that was former Texas cheerleader, Kaitlyn Benkhe.
Episode 1: Invisible Injury
For a few years now, the narrative coming from universities is that sports, particularly football are safer than ever. But we’ve never really seen the numbers. Are concussions actually happening less than they were before? The logical way of answering this question is to look at the aggregate data. Were there actually fewer head injuries in the 2019 season than there were ten years ago? So we asked about 100 public universities across the country. We asked them for their aggregate numbers, broken down by sport for the past ten years.
Business Broadcast
Business Broadcast
BONUS: Secrecy and the Coronavirus
As we all know, the pandemic changed the way that everything worked, including us. We had to re-jigger some things and figure out a way to work remotely and still get it done, just like everybody else did. Oh wait, not everybody. Somehow government agencies everywhere had a particularly hard time making the switch, in so many cases, they instead opted for complete shutdown mode and that meant a lot of FOIA offices just went dark, stopped working.
Dallas school district says public records requests can be indefinitely delayed in pandemic
All across the country we're seeing government offices of all shapes and sizes use the pandemic as an excuse
Episode 8: Up in Flames
What comes to mind when you think of a college town? Old brick buildings covered in ivy, some narrow, tree-lined streets, with little bookstores and coffee shops. That’s because the biggest public universities are generally in small towns. Towns that share few common demographic and geographic features. A lot of them are more than 150 years old,many in areas that are rural. Often, the towns around them are very dependent on the university economy and often, even with the financial prop of being a university town and they are still economically depressed.
RAs at Cal Poly fear retaliation in talking about COVID19 outbreak in dorms, student news site reports
October 1, 2020 In our first WDWK episode "EXTRA," we explored how many public universities unconstitutionally gag
Episode 7: Public, Not Public
What happened here, at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, it wasn’t a sex scandal, or a sports scandal, or any of those scandals that make for salacious headlines. This one didn’t really get a ton of attention. It was a financial scandal, a white collar crime case that mostly took place behind the scenes.
North Carolina U’s contradict themselves on open searches
In episode six, The Portal, we mentioned that North Carolina State's current chancellor, Randy Woodsen, was chosen in a
Episode 6: The Portal
It’s been said that journalists report the first draft of history. Certainly, it is true that reporters witness a lot of stuff before the rest of the world knows about it. And a lot of what we see does not immediately make it into news reports. Sometimes notes stay in our reporter notebooks, or in the margins of our brain until one day, something happens that makes those observations relevant. That’s kind of how this episode happened. This wasn’t something originally on our list of areas to investigate. And so, unlike most of the other episodes, where lots of open records requests helped us figure out where there are gaps in data, this episode is not like that.
EXTRA: When speech isn’t free, but it should be
As students return to campus amidst a global pandemic, news stories are popping up, citing the concerns of resident
Episode 5: What is a FOIA Anyway?
Unlike our freedom of speech, freedom of information is something that comes, not from the constitution, but from laws. There is a federal statute that guarantees freedom of information. You might hear people talking about FOIA. FOIA is technically the Federal Freedom of Information Act, and it’s used in shorthand to describe the request for documents from a federal agency. Sometimes people also interchange that and use it to describe documents requested from state agencies, in our case, those agencies were state departments of education and state universities. State schools are subject to open records laws because they are funded by taxpayer dollars. Each state actually each has its own slightly different records law. You might sometimes hear people refer to these as sunshine laws.
University of Utah doubles down on media policy identified by WDWK as violating the First Amendment
In Episode 2, we revealed that many major universities have unconstitutional policies, gagging the rights of student athletes,
Episode 4: The Blame Game
At the beginning of this project when we started thinking about the concept of this podcast, Why Don’t We Know, I knew that misconduct inside the walls of college fraternities would need to be part of our research. It’s one of those sadly persistent stories, it always seems to be hovering, even if just below the surface, it’s never long before it rises up again, swallowing another unsuspecting family into the dark void of senseless heartbreak. When it does, we as a society are always left asking the same questions. Rarely with satisfying answers. And there’s no one reason for that. Which is probably why it’s been such an impossible problem to solve.
Episode 3: A Deadly Reversal
In 1977, professors at one of the largest public universities in the country started complaining that parts of the ceiling in their offices and classrooms were flaking off and falling. The university conducted a study, widespread testing in more than 100 buildings to find out; what is this stuff? Is it dangerous? It turns out, it most certainly is.
Episode 2: More Than Just a Code of Silence
When we set out to report about head injuries in college sports, we knew we wanted to hear from athletes, but we also knew we probably wouldn’t get very many of them to talk to us. And that hunch was right. Only two returned our calls and only one would talk on the record. And that was former Texas cheerleader, Kaitlyn Benkhe.
Episode 1: Invisible Injury
For a few years now, the narrative coming from universities is that sports, particularly football are safer than ever. But we’ve never really seen the numbers. Are concussions actually happening less than they were before? The logical way of answering this question is to look at the aggregate data. Were there actually fewer head injuries in the 2019 season than there were ten years ago? So we asked about 100 public universities across the country. We asked them for their aggregate numbers, broken down by sport for the past ten years.
The Designer Show
The Designer Show
BONUS: Secrecy and the Coronavirus
As we all know, the pandemic changed the way that everything worked, including us. We had to re-jigger some things and figure out a way to work remotely and still get it done, just like everybody else did. Oh wait, not everybody. Somehow government agencies everywhere had a particularly hard time making the switch, in so many cases, they instead opted for complete shutdown mode and that meant a lot of FOIA offices just went dark, stopped working.
Dallas school district says public records requests can be indefinitely delayed in pandemic
All across the country we're seeing government offices of all shapes and sizes use the pandemic as an excuse
Episode 8: Up in Flames
What comes to mind when you think of a college town? Old brick buildings covered in ivy, some narrow, tree-lined streets, with little bookstores and coffee shops. That’s because the biggest public universities are generally in small towns. Towns that share few common demographic and geographic features. A lot of them are more than 150 years old,many in areas that are rural. Often, the towns around them are very dependent on the university economy and often, even with the financial prop of being a university town and they are still economically depressed.
RAs at Cal Poly fear retaliation in talking about COVID19 outbreak in dorms, student news site reports
October 1, 2020 In our first WDWK episode "EXTRA," we explored how many public universities unconstitutionally gag
Episode 7: Public, Not Public
What happened here, at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, it wasn’t a sex scandal, or a sports scandal, or any of those scandals that make for salacious headlines. This one didn’t really get a ton of attention. It was a financial scandal, a white collar crime case that mostly took place behind the scenes.
North Carolina U’s contradict themselves on open searches
In episode six, The Portal, we mentioned that North Carolina State's current chancellor, Randy Woodsen, was chosen in a
Episode 6: The Portal
It’s been said that journalists report the first draft of history. Certainly, it is true that reporters witness a lot of stuff before the rest of the world knows about it. And a lot of what we see does not immediately make it into news reports. Sometimes notes stay in our reporter notebooks, or in the margins of our brain until one day, something happens that makes those observations relevant. That’s kind of how this episode happened. This wasn’t something originally on our list of areas to investigate. And so, unlike most of the other episodes, where lots of open records requests helped us figure out where there are gaps in data, this episode is not like that.
EXTRA: When speech isn’t free, but it should be
As students return to campus amidst a global pandemic, news stories are popping up, citing the concerns of resident
Episode 5: What is a FOIA Anyway?
Unlike our freedom of speech, freedom of information is something that comes, not from the constitution, but from laws. There is a federal statute that guarantees freedom of information. You might hear people talking about FOIA. FOIA is technically the Federal Freedom of Information Act, and it’s used in shorthand to describe the request for documents from a federal agency. Sometimes people also interchange that and use it to describe documents requested from state agencies, in our case, those agencies were state departments of education and state universities. State schools are subject to open records laws because they are funded by taxpayer dollars. Each state actually each has its own slightly different records law. You might sometimes hear people refer to these as sunshine laws.
University of Utah doubles down on media policy identified by WDWK as violating the First Amendment
In Episode 2, we revealed that many major universities have unconstitutional policies, gagging the rights of student athletes,
Episode 4: The Blame Game
At the beginning of this project when we started thinking about the concept of this podcast, Why Don’t We Know, I knew that misconduct inside the walls of college fraternities would need to be part of our research. It’s one of those sadly persistent stories, it always seems to be hovering, even if just below the surface, it’s never long before it rises up again, swallowing another unsuspecting family into the dark void of senseless heartbreak. When it does, we as a society are always left asking the same questions. Rarely with satisfying answers. And there’s no one reason for that. Which is probably why it’s been such an impossible problem to solve.
Episode 3: A Deadly Reversal
In 1977, professors at one of the largest public universities in the country started complaining that parts of the ceiling in their offices and classrooms were flaking off and falling. The university conducted a study, widespread testing in more than 100 buildings to find out; what is this stuff? Is it dangerous? It turns out, it most certainly is.
Episode 2: More Than Just a Code of Silence
When we set out to report about head injuries in college sports, we knew we wanted to hear from athletes, but we also knew we probably wouldn’t get very many of them to talk to us. And that hunch was right. Only two returned our calls and only one would talk on the record. And that was former Texas cheerleader, Kaitlyn Benkhe.
Episode 1: Invisible Injury
For a few years now, the narrative coming from universities is that sports, particularly football are safer than ever. But we’ve never really seen the numbers. Are concussions actually happening less than they were before? The logical way of answering this question is to look at the aggregate data. Were there actually fewer head injuries in the 2019 season than there were ten years ago? So we asked about 100 public universities across the country. We asked them for their aggregate numbers, broken down by sport for the past ten years.
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