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GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

‘Watchdogs’ under siege

Bella Privitera ’26, Opinions Editor December 4, 2024

The media — historically coined as the “watchdog” of the government, tasked with ensuring political accountability — is currently under siege. Veteran journalists Marty Baron, former executive...

GRAPHIC: CARA HALLIGAN ’25/THE HAWK

‘Newsworthy’ exposure in Congress

Bella Privitera ’26, Opinions Editor October 9, 2024

In a time of faltering newsroom resources in the United States, the already “adversarial relationship” between the media and the U.S. Congress has grown even more tumultuous. The traditional function...

3 close up graphics of a hand painting with a paintbrush, sketching with pen, and forming clay into a bowl

Best art mediums for college students

Izzy Imran April 10, 2024
Based on pricing, messiness and space

A league of her own; Being a woman in sports media is not easy, but who says we can’t do it?

AnnE Potter February 2, 2022

The fight for gender equality within sports media and journalism has seen some success, yet true equality still does not exist in the field. Being a woman in sports journalism is not easy. The intimidation...

The police narrative and systemic racism

The police narrative and systemic racism

The Hawk Staff November 2, 2021

A 31-year-old man, Koffi Dzima, was fatally shot by Philadelphia police on Oct.26, a block from campus. For a period of time, few people knew what had happened. Students weren’t allowed past police...

POPPYN members display the program's logo. PHOTOS COURTESY OF STORMY KELSEY

City’s youth tell the stories of their communities

Ryan Mulligan March 2, 2021

As a junior at Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice, Stormy Kelsey kept hearing about an organization working with kids her age in her community that focused on creating change...

Cage, Monroe and Morales

Cage, Monroe and Morales

Hadassah Colbert January 22, 2020

The importance of black people in sci-fi and fantasy I am a professed comic book nerd as well as a lover of all things science fiction and fantasy. Growing up, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” “The...

A Minute with McCloskey: The role of Philadelphia media in leaking St. Joe's player news

A Minute with McCloskey: The role of Philadelphia media in leaking St. Joe’s player news

James McCloskey, Jr. April 9, 2019

“BIG grad transfer: Saint Joseph’s guard Lamar [sic] Kimble is in the transfer portal,” Jeff Goodman, a college basketball insider at Stadium Sports Network, tweeted on April 2. Moments later, tweets...

What is your cancellation policy?

What is your cancellation policy?

Devin Yingling April 2, 2019

Discussing the prominence of “cancelled culture” “Nope, that’s it, he’s canceled” or “That’s it, they are officially canceled” are statements I hear in conversations just about everyday...

Stephen Maing speaks to a group at Scribe about his experience. PHOTO: ALEX HARGRAVE ’20/THE HAWK

Lessons in storytelling

Alex Hargrave February 19, 2019

Scribe Video Center serves West Philadelphia On the 3900 block of Lancaster Avenue, just under four miles from St. Joe’s campus, sits a storefront bearing the name Scribe Video Center. The 37-year-old...

Trump’s biggest mistake

Trump’s biggest mistake

Jack Convery October 22, 2018

How "fake news" has twisted the way we search for the truth News outlets have been a critical piece of our political system even before our country’s conception. From Ben Franklin’s “Join or Die”...

A nation’s divided attention

A nation’s divided attention

Dominique Joe October 1, 2018

What you missed during the Kavanaugh hearings The American public and the media have a strange, but important, reciprocal relationship regarding the promotion of newsworthy content. It is a reciprocal...

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