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 | TIPS FROM A PRO ON INVESTIGATING DEATH ROW CASES, by A. Clay Thompson
h. In the past few years Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess and his students have helped liberate three wrongfully convicted condemned men through two class projects in investigative reporting (their work wasn't published but was covered by the press and used by the defense lawyers). Inspired by those successes, MediaFile asked a prominent local defense investigator for tips on digging into death-row cases. |
 | DISSENTING VOICES OF THE STREET, by Terry Messman
Over the past decade, an outspoken brand of iconoclastic journalism has emerged from the harsh experiences of people living on the streets in dozens of cities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. |
| ALTERNATIVE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SOURCES: FOCUS ON MEXICO, by Ben Clarke & Steve Rhodes
When events like the Acteal massacre in Chiapas or the U.S. bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan occur, there are a variety of news sources you can go to for perspectives other than uncritical reporting of the latest press releases from the State Department and Pentagon. Some of the following resources deal with breaking stories; others provide the in-depth information necessary to interpret the news.
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 | HAVANA JOURNAL, by Elaine Elinson
Magnolia trees and purple jacarandas sweeten the heavy tropical air of the courtyard of the UPEC building, whose marble staircase and stately columns testify to its past as an old Havana mansion. |
| FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS: why labor actions are not news, by Akilah Monifa
It's a typical Wednesday evening in November and it's raining again. I hear loud chants outside my office window, the same ones that pierce that air three times a week, every week: "Union--Yes! Marriott--No! Union bashing's got to go! What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now! Hey there Marriott, you're no good! Sign that contract like you should." |
| BAY AREA GROUPS MONITOR MAINSTREAM, by Samantha Calamari.
Three Bay area organizations, Retro Poll, the Youth Media Council (YMC), and If Americans Knew have been using monitoring tactics to challenge mainstream media’s reporting patterns. Their efforts take media criticism a step beyond analysis and are beginning to turn frustration at the lack of unbiased information in the mass media into productive steps towards media democracy and public access to balanced news |
| INTERNATIONAL NEWS: WHERE IS IT COMING FROM? by Franz Schurmann.
American newspaper readers traditionally haven't taken much interest in "foreign" news. Nevertheless foreign news has been on newspaper front pages for a long time. And America has had foreign policy ever since the USA was formed. Where do the ideas and intents of those policies ----- and the news shaped by them ----- come from? |
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