Announced as Speakers at Cities Rising Summit
Tom Tom Foundation announced James and Deborah Fallows are returning to the Cities Rising Summit for a session on Tuesday, September 29. The Summit is a six-week long series of virtual events exploring…
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Featured in Irish Examiner
The Irish Examiner’s Michael Moynihan applied James and Deborah Fallows’s 11 signs of civic success to Cork in his August 20, 2020 editorial. He ends with the ‘big plans’ sign…
Fallows to be Featured at Original Thinkers 2020
The Telluride Daily Planet announced James and Deborah Fallows as featured presenters for Original Thinkers’s third annual conference scheduled for October 1 – 4, 2020.
Referenced in Akron Beacon Journal
The Akron Beacon Journal’s August 23, 2020 editorial about the University of Akron’s strategy for moving forward references Our Towns’ reference to the importance of a research university in a town’s success.…
Referenced in Bloomberg News
In his August 14, 2020 column, BNN Bloomberg’s Noah Smith discusses America’s changing urban landscape. He posits that in order to be attractive places to live, suburbs will have to…
Referenced in Strong Towns
In his August 7, 2020 column, Quint Studer discusses six ways communities can start making changes to attract and retain talent in an increasingly virtual working environment. One method he…
Featured in the Irish Examiner
In his July 30, 2020 column in the Irish Examiner, Michael Moynihan describes the Sculpture Walk in Sioux Falls, South Dakota noted in Our Towns. He exhorts Cork to create a similar…
Featured on Original Thinkers
Original Thinkers featured James and Deborah Fallows on their June 29, 2020 episode of “Original Thinkers Presents,” a series of conversations between Original Thinkers’s David Holbrook and past and future…
Featured on CBS This Morning
CBS This Morning featured James Fallows in a June 29, 2020 program segment reporting on the effects of the pandemic on small communities. Fallows, while acknowledging smaller towns may have…
Featured in Adirondack Daily Enterprise
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise featured a review of Our Towns in its June 25, 2020 publication. In recommending the book to leaders in four communities in the region who are recipients of…
Featured on Onward On Air with Jake Soberal
In his June 18, 2020 episode, Onward on Air host Jake Soberal spoke with James Fallows, along with Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockon and Joe Barela, Executive Director of the Colorado…
Featured by Chautauqua Institution
James and Deborah Fallows will be featured in the Chautauqua Institution’s June 3, 2020 ‘Watch Party’ at 10:45am EST. Originally presented at Chautauqua on July 4, 2018 as a part…
Featured in the Los Angeles Times
The daily headline newsletter of the June 1, 2020 Los Angeles Times features James Fallows’s recent Atlantic article “Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?” in the “What Our…
Featured in The Hill
In his May 27, 2020 editor’s note, The Hill’s Steve Clemons features Deborah Fallows’s recent post about the arts. The write-up accompanies his interview of National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet.…
Featured by University of Salamanca’s ‘Open Universe’
The University of Salamanca’s ‘Open Universe’ featured Deb Fallows’s recent post on how libraries are responding to serve their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Open Universe‘ is the Blog of the…
Featured by University of Redlands
On April 24, 2020, University of Redlands alumnus and KESQ Palm Springs TV News Producer, Evan Sanford interviewed James Fallows. The wide-ranging conversation covered Our Towns, the government’s response to…