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Don’t Have Enough on Your Plate? Connecting High Rates of COVID-19 to Food Apartheids

COVID-19 has given us enough on our plates. But what about people who don’t have enough food on theirs to face it? The risk of food insecurity is higher among low-income populations in communities known as food deserts. In addition to these socioeconomic factors, food apartheid causes significant public health problems. In this two part article series, Summer Journalism Fellow Charlotte Ehlers draws connections between food insecurity, its related underlying public health issues, and higher rates of COVID-19 in affected communities.

A New Era – Outdated Amateurism and the NCAA (Part 1)

With an increasingly globalised world, the commercial potential of collegiate sport has exponentially grown. However, the NCAA’s “amateurism” business model is being increasingly attacked. Summer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong explains that the more that basketball players choose to forego the NCAA, the more that the quality of NCAA talent and therefore, its appeal to fans, will decrease. Many aspiring professional athletes want to be able to support their families earlier, and alternate pathways to circumvent the NCAA, like the NBA G-League’s “Professional Player Pathway,” are becoming increasingly popular.

Black in Business: How Entrepreneurs of Color Have Triumphed Financially in a Crisis

As the world watched a video of George Floyd taking his last breath, the Black Lives Matter movement gained rare air, and as millions looked for ways to make a difference, small Black-owned businesses got an unprecedented boost. As Summer Journalism Fellow Ashleigh Field explains, many of these owners are using this prosperity to reinvest back in the community and contribute to the larger cause for justice and equality.

Production and Accountability: How COVID-19 is Revealing Flaws in the Fast Fashion Industry

Since June, hundreds of garment workers, working for fast fashion companies such as H&M in countries like India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, have been protesting layoffs due to overproduction during COVID-19. Because of fluctuations in the supply chain and product consumption, the pandemic has also heightened pre existing issues such as unfair wages and long working hours. Summer Journalism Fellow Maryam Gamar also analyzes H&M’s response to these protests, especially since H&M has advertised its efforts to relieve the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable communities.

Hamad’s Rebirth: Qatar Airways’ Way Back to “the Best”

As airlines cautiously reopen their doors to global travel, Qatar Airways confronts a future business blueprint with entangled unavoidable negative impacts and not-bads. Summer Journalism Fellow Hypatia Wu highlights how the Qatari giant is facing a major pullback on expansion efforts and increasingly fierce competition from its Middle Eastern rivals.

Fair Play: Leveling the Paying Field in Soccer

As female soccer players receive growing recognition on a global level, pay disparity on the field is being subject to increasing scrutiny, and becoming evidently indefensible - both from a social and economic standpoint. Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi explores pay structures in Australia vs. the US, economic arguments for and against equal pay, and costs vs. benefits of changing to an equal play, equal pay system.

Tailwinds and Turbulence: The Rise of Vestas

In these times of upheaval and uncertainty, we can be certain of one thing: the world must continue moving towards sustainable energy sources. Summer Journalism Fellow Dean Lee Sammanthan describes how one Danish company rose to the top against all odds in the wind power market and is now preparing for the global pivot to renewables in the wake of COVID-19.

How to Find Success at Your Internship

So you’ve just landed an internship – congratulations! What are the steps you can take to succeed in your role? While this piece is relevant for remote internships during the summer of 2020, the advice can be widely applied to any internship. Business Today explains how students and recent graduates can define their goals for the summer, get to to know the people around them, communicate with their managers, attend as many social and career events as they can, and connect with fellow interns.

Winner of the Writing Competition: The Child Consumer by Grace Chuan

It is commonly said that the world is becoming a “smaller place” as communicative technologies become increasingly more accessible. While the world itself is not actually shrinking, it feels as if the practical barriers of traveling, retrieving information, and consuming entertainment are minimizing for everyone—including children. Children are now, more than ever, an increasingly reachable audience for digital services. A growing number of online businesses and industries are creating platforms that specifically target younger audiences to capitalize on their growing profitability.

Renewing Navajo Nation after the Conclusion of Coal

In Arizona, coal mines remain in heavy operation, with the majority of their employees being members of the Navajo Nation.

The Beatles: More Current than Ever

However, the economic benefits of Beatlemania are not only perceived by the four musicians, producers, and other copyright owners. Their hometown, the beautiful and always cloudy Liverpool, obtains a notable annual sum of income thanks to the quartet.

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Transitional Justice in South Sudan

The Peace Agreement signed in 2018 covers not only the necessary political, military and institutional changes, but also dedicates a whole chapter of its articles to transitional justice. With this mechanism there is hope that the highly corroded social fabric can heal gradually for the benefit of the population.

The Synergism of Food and Technology

Lab grown burgers, 3D-printed food, and food substitutes represent the modern-day food revolution.

Utilizing the Talent of Young Africans

Africa’s growing population size is a potential treasure-trove that encompasses a key element needed for economic growth, which is human capital.

Venezuela: The Collapse of a Petrostate, Part II

Given the inability to borrow more, the constant violation of human rights and the democratic breakdown, the government of Nicolas Maduro is more isolated than ever in the international system.

Brexit and Trade

The British should reject a Brexit without agreement. It is yet to be known if the British government will do this, or instead crash out of the EU.

Smart Glasses: Major Comeback or Major Flop?

In 2013, Google introduced its first smart glasses product. Surprisingly, it failed. Now, a variety of startups are offering their takes on the smart glasses phenomenon. Could it work this time?

Turkey and the Mideast: Towards a New Muslim World

The personal ambitions of Turkish President Erdogan have radically altered his country’s foreign policy objectives—with important repercussions for the region at large.

Africa’s Growing Marijuana Market

Africa has the potential to become an enormous marijuana market due to the huge population size and favourable weather which makes growing marijuana better than other parts of the world.

In the Fashion Industry, Woke is the New Black

As glamorous as the world of fashion may seem, there are many serious issues that plague the industry. Only through making drastic changes that keep the plight of other humans and the Earth in mind can companies start to create a more positive impact in the world of fashion.