Graham Moomaw

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TV reporter sucks at crime

May 25, 2010 - 5:33 pm

Tags: break, reporter, TV, window
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While doing a video piece about “car prowlers,” this guy just can’t get his visual aids to cooperate.

Whistleblowing 2.0: Journalism Lessons from WikiLeaks

May 12, 2010 - 1:23 pm

Tags: Journalism, Julian Assange, press freedom, whistleblower, WikiLeaks
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Newsrooms are trying everything to stay relevant in the Information Age. In the era of social media, blogs, and YouTube, the journalism industry is struggling to find its place in a world where information flows freely, no longer constrained by publishing bottlenecks. But every technological advance or new tool added to the reporter’s arsenal has [...]

In The Washington Post! (sort of)

April 26, 2010 - 4:02 pm

Tags: Washington Post
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Getting a story picked up by The Washington Post was one of my main goals for my Capital News Service semester. I may have fallen short of getting a full bylined story into the Post, but my latest piece about campaign finance in the congressional race in Maryland’s 1st District was kindly included in the [...]

Hoyer’s Health Care Honeymoon Chilled by Fiscal Reality

April 2, 2010 - 10:34 am

Tags: budget, debt, deficit, fiscal responsibility, Hoyer
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COLLEGE PARK — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Mechanicsville, was less celebratory Thursday than he’s been in the nearly two weeks since the passage of historic health care reform, striking a gloomy tone as he spoke about America’s troubled fiscal future. Addressing a crowd of roughly 100 University of Maryland students, Hoyer issued a somber [...]

Maryland May Be Too Blue for Republican Surge

January 30, 2010 - 5:35 pm

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A wave of voter anger and frustration sweeping the nation may make for a more interesting election year in strongly Democratic Maryland, conservative activists and candidates say. That anger — attributed to frustration over the health care reform bill and the stumbling economy — boiled over in dramatic fashion in Massachusetts when Republican Scott Brown [...]

Navy hospital ship Comfort prepares to aid Haitian quake victims

January 16, 2010 - 2:20 pm

Tags: earthquake, Haiti, Navy
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The flurry of activity on Pier 11 in Baltimore began Thursday, as the USNS Comfort prepared for its latest mission — to aid in the relief effort following Tuesday’s massive earthquake in Haiti. The 894-foot-long ship, described as a “floating hospital,” holds a trauma facility equipped to treat up to 1,000 patients at a time. [...]

GlobalPost Dabbles in Mercenary Journalism

November 24, 2009 - 8:35 pm

Tags: GlobalPost, Journalism
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NPR has an interesting story about the journalism model behind GlobalPost, a new foreign-news site geared toward an American audience. It raises a lot of interesting questions, but the most intriguing aspect of GlobalPost is its paid journalism venture called Passport Custom Research. The Web site markets the service thusly: “a focused, timely, and cost-effective [...]

Enrollment Surges at Maryland Community Colleges

November 24, 2009 - 6:54 am

Tags: Community College, Economy, Education, Maryland, Recession
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As unemployment rises and funds get tight, Marylanders are turning to community colleges to save money and get ahead in the job market.

Scenes from the super bowl of freedom

November 13, 2009 - 6:42 pm

Tags: Bachmann, House Call, Protest, Tea Party
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This post is a little late, but here are some pictures from Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “House Call” rally at the Capitol last week, which she dubbed “the super bowl of freedom.” The Minnesota Independent also has some quick videos I put together from the rally.

Baltimore Crumbling

November 4, 2009 - 10:16 pm

Tags: Baltimore, Decay, Oliver
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I took this picture during a trip into the Oliver neighborhood in Baltimore as part of my Urban Affairs Reporting class. There are whole blocks of houses like this, right next door to blocks where people are living. It’s just one part of what we’re exploring in our semester-long project in Baltimore. Watch for more [...]