A new model for investigative journalism

American University to address the high cost and near-extinction of investigative journalism
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington state’s oldest newspaper, was put up for sale on the 11th and will close if no one buys it in the next 58 days. This is the extreme of what has been happening in the newspaper business as budgets are [...]

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News Anarchy

Why, not how, do we consume news?
With the advent of news blogs, specialty magazines and partisan Web publications, much has been made of how people are consuming news in the 21st century. The choices available to tailor our experience have exploded beyond FOX or CNN, beyond NPR or Rush Limbaugh. But few are asking why. [...]

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“Random Acts of Journalism”

“Blog” may once have been a dirty word. Less than ten years ago, the new word represented a mark of Generation Y adolescence, conjuring painful images of LiveJournals maintained by love-sick, forlorn, anguished teenagers seeking an outlet and an audience. Undeniably, thousands of these bared souls still find their home on the web, but blogs [...]

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Journalism as an Art Form

This is running as an editorial in the April issue of Am Word Magazine @ American University.
In radio journalism, the essence of a story lies in its telling. The ability to transport the reader to the scene, into someone’s mind, to instill an emotion or light a spark is fundamental. Good radio is an art [...]

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To be a Better Journalist than this:

In conducting research on the power of the media, I came across a few paragraphs that may have just altered my direction for the future – as far as what kind of media outlets and organizations I seek to write for – because of the way I reacted so vehemently against what I read. I [...]

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What About Robert Novak?

The New York Times continues to be the current administration’s favorite punching bag. It’s easy enough when Fox News, owned by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch (who also owns MySpace) has convinced us all that the news media has a liberal bias. If our leaders were consistent and truly worried about national security, they ought [...]

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First Thoughts on First Journalism Internship

A month has passed. I’ve not long had the taste of my future in my mouth and already I salivate for more. This is good: a small part of me could not help but fear that my first stint as a journalist would disappoint. But I could not have asked for better mentors or more [...]

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