Notice: this contains content that is NSFW. On St. Patricks’s Day weekend, local ABC affiliate WJLA-TV was reporting on Arlington residents drinking at local pubs. Ironically, right as news anchor Kimberly Suiters asked reporter Jeff Goldberg about residents keeping their clothes on, a flasher walks in frame of the camera. Goldberg barely reacted and continued […]
Archive for March 22, 2016
Recently I read on of the best articles I’d read in a while. Part feature, part investigative it’s a Washington Post article called ‘A Marine’s Convictions’ written by reporter John Woodrow Cox. It chronicles Marine Maj Mark Thompson, who was accused of sleeping with two students while a teacher at the Naval Acadamy– an […]
Before the advent of the two-way radio, wire transmission cables covered the World War I battlefields. Although being the most technologically advance form of communication available, it did face its fair share of hurdles on enemy territory especially around rough and mountainous terrain. This is where the pigeon comes in. With the ability to fly at […]
Circulation has always been a critical part of the business of journalism as well as the practical reason for producing journalism in the first place. We can see examples of this throughout the history of journalism as well as today. When the first mass media outlets in the form of printers who owned printing presses […]
The feature section of newspapers and magazines have definitely transformed over time. While human interest stories have been covered since the Roman acta in 47 a.d., the type of human interest pieces have seen some changes. One topic that I have noticed to be quite an interesting addition to the feature section are long-form stories […]