Editor, Global Journalist
Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies in the Missouri School of Journalism and editor of Global Journalist, a magazine for the international news business; former staffer at CNN, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Times
Jailing Journalists around the World US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi is waging a hunger strike in Iran, where she's been sentenced to eight years in prison on a spying charge. In North Korea, American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee face up to ten years of forced labor on similar charges. Around the world, there are some 125 journalists being held in prison. Missouri School of Journalism Professor Stuart Loory is editor of Global Journalist.
President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.
White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?