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‘Get the story.’ ‘Tell the Story.’ ‘It’s a lead story.’ These three tools are ways of journalism, storytelling. The story is everything when journalists report, it’s all of the rites and rituals. Often time journalists find asking themselves, “is it a good story?” If it’s not a good story then why waste time on tryingContinue reading “The Future of Journalism”

Peace journalism can be defined as shedding light onto structural and cultural cases regarding violence, which impacts the lives of people facing a conflict area as a part of violence. Peace journalism relates back to peace itself and how we would define that in our lives. Peace Journalism was started in the 1970s by theContinue reading “Peace Journalism”

The recent discovery of Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is all anyone is talking about. The news is constantly reporting new updates of the Coronavirus and how we as human beings can help the spreading of this virus. The news has not only reached television broadcast, but it has spread to social media news, radio, etc. TheContinue reading “Coronavirus”

The photo I chose to write about is “Straight Voice” which was captured by Yasuyoshi Chiba. The main subject of the photo is the boy in the middle with his hand held proudly over his heart. This is a story in itself because you see how proud this boy is to be a part ofContinue reading “World Press Photo Contest”

“Risk” is a documentary created by Laura Poitras that looks inside the Wikileaks case of Julian Assange. Poitras does a good job by only adding her own thoughts into the film at times, yet it is a respectful approach to the sandal. Therefore, this is a good source to get context and unbiased information dueContinue reading “Wikileaks and Julian Assange – “Risk””

On Tuesday, September 11th 2001 there was a series of four terrorist attacks on the United States in New York City. Two planes were hijacked by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda and crashed into the North and South towers located at the World Trade Center. The two towers both collapsed causing 2,977 victim fatalities andContinue reading “Memories After 9/11”

The European Refugee crisis was covered by many news sources, including The Washington Post that we covered in class. The Waypoint is a visual journey through the lesbos, which is the gateway to Europe. When you look at the page you see a white arrow pointing to the right. This automatically draws the reader inContinue reading “European Refugee Crisis”

2012 – Whitney Houston’s Passing Whitney Houston’s death occurred on February 11th, 2012 in Beverly Hills California. This was local news in the United States that singer, actress, producer, and mother had passed away. This event came to me from the television and was broadcasted all over the news channels in the United States. ThereContinue reading “Personal News Timeline”