WikiLeaks has been all over the world news headlines this past week after the Daily Beast reported that Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning released 260,000 classified documents to the controversial journalism network. Wired.com has followed up on story with reports about Manning’s conscience and WikiLeaks’ intention to provide him with legal help. In related news, [...]
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WikiLeaks: The Beginning of the First-Ever Golden Age of Journalism
Now that I’ve emerged from my symbolic journey through the desert that took place over the last few months, I need to start cracking away at a variety of topics that have sparked my interest lately. The timeliest of those topics is WikiLeaks, a site that I heard about a few weeks ago via an [...]
Once a Monotheism, Always a Monotheism
I left off last time explaining how Zeitoun is the only “new release” book I’ve ever read. I zoomed through it in eight days, since I had checked it out from the local library (the book was sold out everywhere from Christmas until about a week ago — but I hadn’t had a library card [...]
Submit a Guest Essay to ‘Generation Y Michigan’
Generation Y Michigan is a new site I built for Michigan Radio that we just unveiled last week. The site was envisioned as a blog for newsroom intern Lauren Silverman to explore the reasons why Michigan can’t hold or attract young adults. But because of the overwhelming positive response, we’ve decided to open the site [...]
As the Industry Falls, Journalism Will Rise
I experienced two things in the last week that have me thinking about the current and future state of journalism. First was the film State of Play, the most recent from director Kevin Macdonald. His 2006 film The Last King of Scotland was at least extremely disturbing if not highly overrated, but I didn’t know [...]
