CHICAGO — The public radio program "This American Life" is retracting a story broadcast in January about Apple's operations in China, citing "numerous fabrications."
Jan Adams, from the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum, talk to seminar attendees about the consequences of plastic.
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With the quality of water worldwide declining and the increasing scarcity of it in many places becoming more prominent, student journalists at Pacific Lutheran University took up a challenge by KPLU to cover a local symposium on water.
"Our Thirsty Planet" centers on the exploitation and need for clean water around the world and is put on by Pacific Lutheran University’s Wang Center for Global Education. The symposium is under way and the students have begun publishing their efforts on "Water For Thought," a Website created for this experiment in student-sourced journalism.
You can check out their work on that site and follow them on Twitter at @waterforthought.
The Jazz Journalists Association held its annual awards ceremony on Saturday June 11. A new award category was added this year: Jazz Hero. According to JJA, Jazz Heroes are activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz who have had significant impact in their local communities.
Honored as a Jazz Hero this year was Seattle's John Gilbreath, executive director of Earshot Jazz, radio host, artistic director of the Bellevue Jazz Festival and Seattle Art Museum's Art of Jazz concert series. Congratulations, John!
Dorothy Parvaz, a reporter for Al Jazeera and a former colleague of mine at the Seattle Post Intelligencer, has been released by Iranian authorities after she was detained in Syria and deported to Iran. Parvaz returned to Doha, Qatar, where she is now based.
Dorthy Parvaz, who holds American, Canadian and Iranian citizenship, arrived in Damascus on Friday and has not been heard from since.
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Maybe you've heard about it already, but former Seattle PI reporter and columnist Dorothy Parvaz has gone missing in Syria.
Journalists take risks to make sure people’s stories are told, to shine a light on wrongdoing based on the belief that public awareness is the first step toward positive change. Today happens to be World Press Freedom Day, this year hosted by the U.S.
We know that how information is being communicated and paid for is quickly changing and that because of this the field of journalism is in a state of flux. But what does this exactly mean for today’s reporters and a public that wants to be informed?
A new play in the Seattle area explores how “instant information” through texting and tweeting is affecting the way news is covered and consumed here in the Northwest. It’s called “The New, New News…a Living Newspaper."
"Nations no longer can hope to control the flow of information nor isolate their citizens from the outside world," says Lawrence Pintak, Founding Dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University.
Lawrence Pintak is a former Mid-East correspondent for CBS news, and also taught journalism at the American University in Cairo. He's based in Pullman now, but stays in touch with contacts he's made covering the Arab world since 1980.
This PI paper box stands empty following the death of the paper's print edition, in March 2009.
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Reporter Ruth Teichroeb has been keeping tabs on her former Seattle PI co-workers since she and 140 colleagues lost their jobs after the Hearst Corporation shuttered print operations. Did they find new work? If so, were those journalism jobs?
Teichroeb has conducted two surveys: the first one six months after the PI's March 2009 demise, the second over the past few weeks. Here are the results she reports on her personal blogSafety Net. They are collated from a total of 82 responses:
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