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Assistant Professor of Journalism + Design

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School invites applications for a four-year, full-time, renewable-term appointment as an Assistant Professor of Journalism + Design, to begin July 1, 2025. The Journalism + Design program integrates design methodologies and playful pedagogy with traditional journalism skills, values, and habits of mind. It inculcates the rigorous critical thinking, reporting, and storytelling needed to navigate a complex and unpredictable information ecosystem. The program emphasizes journalism’s role of serving the public in a democratic society. Students who major or minor in Journalism + Design enter a variety of roles at news organizations and adjacent professions. Journalism + Design is looking for a dedicated journalist with a vigorous reporting practice and a desire to think critically about storytelling, form, and content. The department is open to journalists working in a range of forms, subjects, and newsroom roles. Journalism + Design students bring a strong sense of social justice and moral clarity, and they are eager to build upon and challenge venerated journalistic principles in their pursuit of complicated facts and truths. Ideal candidates would be eager to help prepare this next generation of journalists for a new era of journalistic practice. The New School is committed to actively recruiting from a diverse pool of applicants. We encourage candidates from groups underrepresented in U.S. higher education and the journalism industry to apply. The New School does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, creed, sex or gender (including gender identity and expression), pregnancy, sexual orientation, religion, religious practices, mental or physical disability, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, veteran status, marital or partnership status, or any other legally protected status. RESPONSIBILITIES The teaching load is five courses per year, with the expectation of an advising caseload and service to the college and university. Courses may include core undergraduate courses such as News, Narrative & Design I, News, Narrative & Design II, Ethics & History of Journalism, a First Year Seminar, and Senior Capstone, as well as courses in the candidate’s areas of expertise with respect to form and subject matter. Eugene Lang College promotes active learning through seminar discussion classes. Candidates should feel comfortable in a liberal arts setting committed to equity, inclusion, and social justice. They should be excited to work closely with undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of skills, knowledge, and interests. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Recognized professional work in their area of expertise and across a range of media. Experience with some manifestation of design or design thinking. This might be anything from journalism about design to design research to product design to storytelling that thoughtfully integrates form and content. Evidence of successful undergraduate teaching experience. The ability to contribute to an innovative and experimental approach to journalism in a liberal arts environment. A capacity for collaboration in developing a creative curriculum for an evolving undergraduate program and an evolving discipline. A commitment to an inclusive approach to teaching and learning. Compatibility with The New School’s focus on civic engagement and social justice. WORK MODALITY On-Campus Position: Faculty are expected to work on-campus due to the nature of the work in accordance with University policies as set forth in the Full-Time Faculty Handbook. #LI-ONSITE SALARY $80,000 - $95,000 annual Application: Review of applications will begin immediately and the position will remain open until filled. Interested candidates should submit the following documents in ONE PDF, (where it asks to upload your CV): a cover letter describing experience and qualifications a curriculum vitae a 1-2 page statement of teaching philosophy and practice relevant to this position a list of three references and their contact information. Please do not include additional materials at this time. We look forward to receiving your application! Welcome to The New School Careers Page Since our founding in 1919, The New School has redrawn and redefined the boundaries of intellectual and creative thought as a preeminent academic center. At our university, students have the academic freedom to shape their unique, individual paths for a complex and rapidly changing world. As a New School employee, you will be a part of the university’s mission to prepare and inspire students to bring about positive change in the world . View our list of open positions to apply. For Staff, Union and Full Time Faculty Positions, please use this website to search and apply to available vacancies. For instructions on how to apply, please see video available here for guided instruction. You can also view the PDF available here for written instructions. For Part Time Faculty, Misc./Temporary and Student Positions, please use the following website to search an apply to available vacancies: https://careers.newschool.edu/ **Current Employees: If you are currently a New School employee interested in applying for a Staff, Union or Full Time Faculty position, please log in to MyDay and type “Find Internal Jobs” in the search bar to search and apply to listed vacancies. If you have questions about submitting an application, please contact the Talent Team at hrcareers@newschool.edu or view this video for guided instructions. You can also view the PDF available here for written instructions. Please note you can review the status of your submitted job applications via your Careers Page in MyDay. ** External Candidates: If you have completed an interview and have been selected to move forward in the search process, please click here to review a short video and click here for a PDF that will walk you through completing tasks and next steps in the candidate home screen. The New School is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that promises diversity and tolerance in all areas of employment, education and access to its educational, artistic or cultural programs and activities. The New School does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, creed, sex or gender (including actual or perceived gender identity or expression or transgender status), sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, pregnancy, religion, religious practices, mental or physical disability, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, veteran status, marital or partnership status, or any other legally protected status.

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Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. As the Olympics approach, they face hard choices: take drugs to lower their natural testosterone levels, give up their sport entirely, or fight. To understand how we got here, Host Rose Eveleth (they/them) traces the surprising, 100-year history of sex testing.

Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On

The Online Harms Act is currently the talk of Canada. As the government’s website describes it, The internet is an exceptional tool for people of all ages to learn, play and connect with family, friends and those with similar interests. However, just like the outside world, the digital world can pose significant dangers. Social media can be used to sexually exploit children, promote self-harm to children, incite violence, put people’s safety at risk and foment hate. Online harms have real-world impacts with tragic, even fatal, consequences. The Government of Canada has introduced legislation to hold social media platforms accountable for addressing harmful content on their platforms and for creating a safer online space that protects all people in Canada, especially kids. As something that addresses speech on the internet – and includes some strong penalties for spreading hate speech – the Act has led to massive debates. I won’t summarize them here, but you can read thoughtful critiques from Professor Michael Geist and you can listen to a discussion on Canadaland’s Backbench to get a sense of things. My interest here is not to delve into the controversies, but instead read the Act while wearing my Mastodon admin hat. I am one of the two admins of AoIR.social, a Mastodon instance for members of the Association of Internet Researchers. AoIR.social gives our members access to the fediverse – the global network of thousands of social media servers, with millions of users engaged in social media activities. An initial question: does the Act apply to the tens of thousands of fediverse instances with their millions of users? Does it thus apply to AoIR.social? Considering that the Act defines “social media service” as “a website or application that is accessible in Canada, the primary purpose of which is to facilitate interprovincial or international online communication among users of the website or application by enabling them to access and share content” (page 5), then the answer is yes. AoIR.social operates internationally, including in Canada. So do many of the other tens of thousands of fediverse servers. Since I’m one of the two admins of AoIR.social, am I affected? I believe so: I would be an “operator,” “a person that, through any means, operates a regulated service.” It could also be that the AoIR organization itself would be the operator, since in this Act “person” also applies to corporations. The Act would create a Digital Safety Commission, an agency that would govern social media services. The Act notes this Commission should consider things like the size of the service and the operator’s financial and technical abilities. This is good – many fediverse instances are small and are run by individuals or a handful of folks. They also often run on very small budgets as not-for-profit organizations. Regardless, however, I believe small fediverse servers would be affected (unless they find a way to not be available to Canadians). So: will the Act radically affect fediverse instances, such as AoIR.social? The Act specifically says our service should not harm freedom of expression, and reading it leads me to believe that AoIR.social won’t be affected in that manner. While we welcome debate and discussion, we’re not in the business of platforming the sorts of harmful content the Act discusses. But, the implementation of the Act could prove to be very burdensome to the administration of fediverse instances, such as AoIR.social. Much is going to hinge on how the Act understands the fediverse.

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Ban Online Behavioral Advertising

Tech companies earn staggering profits by targeting ads to us based on our online behavior. This incentivizes all online actors to collect as much of our behavioral information as possible, and then sell it to ad tech companies and the data brokers that service them. This pervasive online...

The campaign that removed the President of Harvard was about DEI, not plagiarism

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