After 10 year wait, splash pad opens in West Scranton
Kids, both young and old, couldn t wait to make a splash at the Novembrino Complex in West Side. Author: Elizabeth Worthington Updated: 7:11 PM EDT July 23, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. After more than 10 years, people in West Scranton finally have a place to cool off again in the summer. The city s first splash pad officially opened on Friday. It replaces the Novembrino complex, which closed in 2011.
The old pool was named after Richard Novembrino, a city controller in the late 1980s. His wife Roseann took the job after his passing, and she was a big proponent of the splash pad.
Double jeopardy Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
In the contemporary world of journalism, female reporters face a double jeopardy: they are increasingly targeted both as journalists and as women – particularly in repressive regimes and misogynistic societies.
As the United Nations intensifies its campaign for women’s rights worldwide – even as it annually commemorates World Press Freedom Day on May 3 – one of the questions lingering in the minds of women activists is: Is press freedom incompatible with gender empowerment?
Marianna Belalba Barreto, Civic Space Cluster Lead at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance based in Johannesburg, told
IPS the
CIVICUS Monitor has documented many cases of women journalists facing online harassment and the gendered nature of it.
3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of a series of IPS features and opinion editorials focused on media freedom globally.
Women journalists in Kabul June 2019. Credit: UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)/Fardin Waezi
UNITED NATIONS, May 2 2021 (IPS) - In the contemporary world of journalism, female reporters face a double jeopardy: they are increasingly targeted both as journalists and as women– particularly in repressive regimes and misogynistic societies.
As the United Nations intensifies its campaign for women’s rights worldwide even as it annually commemorates World Press Freedom Day on May 3 one of the questions lingering in the minds of women activists is: Is press freedom incompatible with gender empowerment?
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