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Tucson: Graceful words from a grieving father

January 12, 2011 - 9:33 pm

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I toyed with the idea of writing something on the Tucson tragedy, but at this point, there’s nothing left to be said that hasn’t already been covered ad nauseam. President Obama gave a great speech at Wednesday’s memorial service that will hopefully put an end to the stupidity that has been echoing around the political [...]

WikiLeaks: Restoring distrust

December 1, 2010 - 9:43 pm

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Slate’s Jack Schafer pushes back against the bipartisan vitriol toward WikiLeaks over cablegate: International scandals—such as the one precipitated by this week’s WikiLeaks cable dump—serve us by illustrating how our governments work. Better than any civics textbook, revisionist history, political speech, bumper sticker, or five-part investigative series, an international scandal unmasks presidents and kings, military [...]

Errol Morris: Journalism is an ‘obsession’

November 11, 2010 - 8:47 pm

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In a commencement speech at the Berkeley School of Journalism, the Academy award-winning documentary filmmaker describes the journalist’s pursuit: “A scientist tries to come up with general laws, but there are no general laws to be found in the chaos of everyday life.  We are forced to make sense of experience the best we can. [...]

Pulitzer: looking back at a journalism icon

August 1, 2010 - 10:51 pm

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James McGrath Morris’s biographical epic “Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power” traces the life of the brilliant man whose name would come to be synonymous with journalistic greatness.

TV reporter sucks at crime

May 25, 2010 - 5:33 pm

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. [...]

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