Search results for “writing the book” Showing 891 results A Father’s Life Tugs His Son to Revisit Unsolved Crimes ‘More and more I was looking not just at my father’s story but also at the unfinished business of the civil rights movement.’ September 14, 2011 Carl Sandburg’s Reporting Foretold the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 “Diversity fatigue has been alive and well in America's news industry for many years,” writes Milton Coleman, a senior editor at The Washington Post and an organizer of Leadership in… September 13, 2011 Egyptian Journalism: An Oddly Connected Mix of Old and New Media ‘… in this disheartening traditional media landscape, we find encouraging signs of independent media—in the truest sense of the phrase …’ September 13, 2011 Here’s What People Want to Know: Why Do Journalists Tell These Stories? Why is what happened then considered news today? Why stir up memories of events that were long ago put to rest? Hank Klibanoff, author of “The Race Beat” and managing… September 12, 2011 In Jordan, Some Threats Against a Foreign Journalist Are Realized After the Arab Spring, media restrictions tighten in ways unprecedented in Randa Habib’s 24 years as Agence France-Press bureau chief in Amman, and her life is threatened because of what… September 9, 2011 The Case of the Supposedly Sealed Files—And What They Revealed ‘I continue to pore through 40,000 pages of FBI records, the entire FBI case file in the Klan’s 1964 killings of [James] Chaney, [Andrew] Goodman and [Michael] Schwerner. Two suspects… September 9, 2011 Compelled to Remember What Others Want to Forget ‘… I realize that the way forward is through doing what we do best. We tell stories. We are journalists. And if we, as journalists, don’t tell these forgotten stories,… September 9, 2011 Fall 2011: Class Notes Cases unheard. Justice denied. These words fit many crimes committed with racial intent a half century ago. Now reporters burrow into forgotten files, locate witnesses, track down suspects, publish what… September 9, 2011 Roi Ottley: An African-American Journalist Covers World War II Old World War II movies usually included the standard cliché of a United States Army unit serving as a microcosm of American diversity. As the soldiers trudged along muddy roads… September 7, 2011 The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists Steve Weinberg writes about the inner fire that made Jack Anderson love to kick Nixon around, Dan Kennedy looks at a new take on the complicated life of Marshall McLuhan,… July 8, 2011 Previous 1 … 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 … 90 Next