They’ve gone dark: Afghans who helped the U.S. military, trained as American-style journalists and rode the wave of women heading to higher education are destroying the diplomas, transcripts and résumés that prove how they built civil society in the country that the U.S. has left behind.
GSS on MediaShift: Talking politics in the journalism classroom

Fake news, alternative facts, Russia hacks and the red/blue divide: It’s been a roller-coaster political year so far and an especially challenging one for journalism teachers.
GSS executive director Beatrice Motamedi and other educators discussed what’s happening in their classrooms and newsrooms during a Twitter chat on Feb. 17 hosted by MediaShift, a San Francisco-based news organization that covers media, education and technology.
Thanks to MediaShift for capturing the chat in the Storify below.

