My Journalism 200 Blog

Journalism and the way history is told goes hand in hand. Every great story has not been told had some major event in history not taken place or was about to take place. News organizations have used their ability to write intriguing stories to define this country. Roger Streitmatter has examined the connection between history read more »

The film “All the President’s Men” told the story from the Watergate Scandal in 1972. The film does a fine job of showing how to conduct real life investigative journalism. The two journalists that uncover the scandal are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who worked for the Washington Post. While the scandal is intriguing, it read more »

Citizenfour tells the thrilling and eye opening story from Edward Snowden’s 2013 discovery. The film is suspenseful and thought provoking as we learn about the abuse of power the government and N.S.A have over citizens in the United States. Edward Snowden formerly worked for the N.S.A and met up with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald read more »

This early 2000s film follows the career of Stephen Glass, a young journalist striving for success. The film explores journalism’s flaws that are portrayed through Glass’ fabricated stories. He rises up in with the newspaper The New Republic as a very admirable writer and editor who his coworkers praise. The movie really shows just how read more »

The movie “Spotlight” was a huge hit in 2015. The film follows the spotlight team at the Boston Globe as they cover the excruciating timeline about priests who molested young children. While the film may show some boring scenes inside a newspaper company, the sequence of the film is suspenseful and keeps you on your read more »

The news is told today through many outlets. People can decide where they want to get the news whether that be from news programs on TV, social media sites online, the newspapers, or from word of mouth. I believe that every news source has some sort of bias whether it intends to or not. I read more »

Early this April, a story had gone viral about a man committing an unspeakable crime. He had gone Facebook live to show him shooting an innocent old man. The Daily Mail reported on this event stating that the last words the killer had said before he shot himself were, “I need my McNuggets!”. More than read more »

The Daily Mail in U.K. has admitted to falsely accusing Melania Trump of being an escort previously in her career. The details can be found in an article by Andrew Malcolm of Hot Air. The settlement will cost the tabloid nearly $3 million in damage and fees. Daily Mail apologized for the stress that they read more »

A recent incident on the United Airlines flight 3411 has stirred up the public with anger and frustration. The United Airlines flight was overbooked and demanded that some passengers get off the flight. The result of the overbooking had led to the abusive mishandling of one passenger that was dragged off the flight. The abuse read more »

David A. Fahrenthold, reporter for the Washington Post, followed up on a story about the infamous Donald Trump’s portrait. He tracked down Enrique Acevedo to explain how the portrait was bought and misused by Trump’s Foundation money. It was a four-foot tall portrait of Trump himself and it was auctioned off in 2014. The portrait was bought read more »