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A Community Watches a Story Unfold

‘It was risky to reveal parts of the story as it unfolded because in 30 years in this business I have seen projects hit dead ends.’
June 10, 2011

News Literacy: What Not to Do

RELATED ARTICLES“Connecting Kids With News in Their Community”“Media Literacy: Learning Principles”– Renee HobbsThree instructional practices that are emerging in news literacy deserve closer scrutiny:Dumbing It Down: Some educators and news…
June 9, 2011

Media Literacy: Learning Principles

Teachers in the Powerful Voices for Kids program helped students evaluate and create messages in a variety of media. Photo by Renee Hobbs.RELATED ARTICLES“Connecting Kids With News in Their Community”“…
June 9, 2011

Landing in Al Jazeera’s Vibrant Newsroom

‘… people show up on days off, come in early and leave late often without being asked, because not being in the newsroom when major stories break seems inconceivable.’
June 9, 2011

Steve Weinberg: Connections and Disclosures

RELATED ARTICLE“The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists”-Steve WeinbergIn 1989, Little, Brown and Company published my biography of industrialist Armand Hammer, and then Hammer sued me for defamation, as we knew…
June 9, 2011

A Failing Newsroom—Described With a Novelist’s Touch

Tom Rachman ‘is telling this story at a perfect time as newspapers shed staff and costs and, in some cases, shut down their presses altogether.’
June 9, 2011

Deciphering the Life of a Complicated Thinker

A novelist turned biographer places ‘[Marshall] McLuhan’s maddeningly difficult ideas in a recognizably human context.’
June 9, 2011

Connecting Kids With News in Their Community

Youngsters made video games, and educators found that ‘hands-on activity helped kids to process news reporting. It also gave them ways to tell this story by integrating their perspectives as…
June 9, 2011

Words and Visuals Intersect to Create Community

Interactive sites like Intersect ‘trace the contours of a story’s growth through the flow of time and place and offer viewers the chance to embed their stories into those being…
June 9, 2011

Health Draws a Community Together Online

‘A new mindset emerged as the site’s gates swung open to community involvement. Now, community members are part of what we do every step along the way—and we are progressing…
June 9, 2011