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Blank missing persons fliers. After Gabby Petitos disappearance, the media has been criticized for not giving attention to missing colored people. GRAPHIC BY KAT PROCACCI

Gabby Petito’s investigation helps shed light on other missing POC cases

Xenia Gonikberg October 5, 2021
#OPINION: There are still thousands of people, particularly people of color, that go missing every year and are not given the same media coverage that Petito’s case was. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as “missing white woman syndrome."
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Student media faces a breakdown in communication with most media relations sources on campus. YOON SEO NAM/STATESMAN FILE

If we want journalism to survive, it begins with self-evaluation

Steven Keehner April 4, 2021
#OPINION If we want to continue to tell stories, we need to adapt and change. But rather than straying from our roots, we should reconsider why they were planted in the first place.
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Stewart and O’Reilly battle it out

Keith Olsen October 9, 2012

The match was perfect. On Oct. 6, Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart stepped up to podiums in order to make their respective cases for the nation’s ailments and what they believe it will take to bring the...

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