"Basically, we get paid to be right, to be rigorous. Because if the story is wrong, the investment or the lawsuit fails.

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As a journalism professor, I am often asked about the value of journalism education in an ever-fragmented media world and whether it feeds the very divisiveness people worry about. Too often, we ...

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