by Carson Scott | Sep 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
“They says Americans’ past-time is baseball but I think it’s politics … We want to do for politics what ESPN did for sport … we’re here for obsessives and junkies”. Fighting words from Politico National Political Reporter James...
by Carson Scott | Sep 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
As a “voice of God” — referencing the authority of the three U.S. network anchors, who together address nearly thirty million viewers nightly — Dan Rather had rather big shoes to fill when he assumed the anchor chair from Walker Cronkite in...
by Paul Henson | Sep 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
(New American citizens. Hundreds of immigrants from different countries take the oath at naturalization ceremonies in Minneapolis) It has been said that there’s a Filipino in every corner of the...
by Shakir Reshamwala | Sep 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
The United States is accused of being the policeman of the world, but since no other nation has the appetite or power to resolve global conflicts, Washington has to step up to the plate. Rep Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, said he fully...
by Diana Duran | Sep 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you want to go into the Senate Gallery you are not allowed to have an extra pair of shoes in your bag. Guess why. The Capitol Visitor Center in Washington D.C. -Do you carry any other electronic devices with you? -No, we don’t (Spas and I replied)...
by Diana Duran | Sep 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
It is rewarding to realise that investigative journalism is not as dead as many (specially powerful people) would like it to be. WPI fellows visited the ProPublica headquarters during their week in New York City. Nowadays, it appears to be...
by Paul Henson | Sep 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s an event which will forever define a particular point in our lives. I had been a reporter for barely 2 years when 9/11 happened. I had just come home from a long work day, watching the late night local newscast in Manila when the planes crashed into...
by Veronica Kwabla | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
These are news organizations I have admired from thousands of miles away. They have their own flaws but comparably these are the hall mark of journalism, because no institution is perfect. It’s debatable though. Dan Rather Reports Here I was face to face with Dan...
by Vera Krichevskaya | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Couple of years ago I flew the Atlantic keeping in my hands a book with 89 Hasidic Tales about Holocaust. The author of the book Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor from Lithuania, devoted all her life to record memories of Jewish people who were able to survive. She...
by Veronica Kwabla | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
12 years ago I would have seen the twin towers from the sky. I am sure of this because I saw the statue of liberty as plane prepared to land at LaGuardia airport in New York. Instead I saw what is left of it. 9/11 memorial pool. Almost 3,000 people including Ghanaians...