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Press Club Opines on Air Force One Flying Without Wire Services

May 14, 2025 Linda L. Richards 0

What follows is a statement from Mike Balsamo, president of the National Press Club on POTUS denying wire service reporters access to the presidential plane, Air Force One, for an overseas trip. “Wire service reporters are central to a free and independent press—providing fast, fact-based reporting that millions of people around the world rely on every day. “Their absence from Air Force One today breaks with decades of precedent and limits access to critical information […]

The Mystery of the Photo

January 16, 2022 News Editor 0

The above photo has been fueling the daydreams of Internet-based book lovers everywhere for the last several years. As recently as January 3, author and activist Don Winslow tweeted the photo, saying: “I hope you see the beauty I do.” To date, nearly 33,000 people have shown their agreement by liking the tweet, many of them adding comments and photos: of other dreamy libraries, of books, of book-related tattoos. Over 1000 comments in all, celebrating […]

Time Out!

June 26, 2020 News Editor 0

You might have noticed that January Magazine took an unexpected time out. In the process of moving to a bigger, better and fancier server, something went terribly wrong and we were down for about 12 hours. Looks like we’re back now and stronger than ever (do to that fancy new server) but if you see a bit of a mess here or there, let us know. We still have a bit to clean up. Photo […]

Writer Predicts Innovation Boom Will Follow COVID-19

April 11, 2020 admin 0

Expect a major boom in innovation after the COVID-19 crisis subsides. That is the conclusion of veteran journalist Llewellyn King in a major op-ed piece, distributed to newspapers and other outlets this week by InsideSources. King argues that after wars and other great dislocating events, there has been a boom in innovation. He traces this partly to the ending of rigidities which have built up in society, limiting innovation and new entrepreneurial activity. The boom […]

U.S. Press Leaders to China: Rethink Expelling Journalists

February 20, 2020 admin 0

The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute urged the Chinese government to reconsider a plan to expel three Wall Street Journal reporters from China. China has ordered Josh Chin, the paper’s deputy bureau chief in China, and reporters Chao Deng and Philip Wen to leave the country in five days, The Journal said Wednesday. Chin and Deng are U.S. citizens and Wen is Australian. A Chinese spokesman, Geng Shuang, said the […]

Fracking Linked to Cancer and Birth Defects

February 2, 2020 admin 0

A group of Canadian doctors has called for a national moratorium on all new fracking operations. The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) also urged an eventual phasing out of all existing such developments. In a new report, Fractures in the Bridge: Unconventional (Fracked) Natural Gas, Climate Change and Human Health, environmental and health hazards associated with fracking are examined. Fracking releases trapped natural gas deep beneath the Earth’s surface by blasting water, […]

Solving the Misinformation Pandemic

January 27, 2020 News Editor 0

It’s National News Literacy Week and it’s all about solving the misinformation “pandemic,” says Allan Miller, founder and CEO of the News Literacy Project. From CNN: “We all bear responsibility here,” Miller said. “I would like to see a new kind of ethos of personal responsibility around … how we share and consume news and information, so that people begin to become part of the information solution, instead of being part of the misinformation problem.” […]

Fighting the (Tech) Revolution

January 23, 2020 News Editor 0

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is on its way experts suggest it’s going to change everything. A recent conceit, the phrase was coined in 2015 was first introduced by then executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. Smartypants Technology Report talks about the Fourth Industrial Revolution in an article about a recently published book on the topic called Fightback: How to Win in the Digital Economy with Platforms, Ventures and Entrepreneurs. Digitalization is the […]

Library Collection Opens Access to Newspapers from the Middle East

January 15, 2020 admin 0

From the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have stood at the crossroads of history. The Global Archive Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection includes publications from across the region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. Researchers will have access to unique content from the […]

Organizations Respond to Australian Brushfire and Wildlife Crisis

January 12, 2020 admin 0

Nearly 18 million acres of land have been burned in Australia and much of it bushland, forests and national parks, impacting millions of animals and putting a strain on animal hospitals, fire brigades and other charities that are diligently responding to the crisis. Wildlife organizations throughout Australia have been overrun with burnt and injured animals from the catastrophic bushfires devastating huge parts of the country. Dr. Michael Pyne, head veterinarian, with the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital […]