by Tao Fu | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
What I knew about Propublica was its focusing on investigative journalism in the public interest. However, what I had not known was there is something beyond investigative reports in Propublica. After I visited its headquarter on Sep. 5, which is very...
by Paul Henson | Sep 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Before the pretty boy news anchor superstars Anderson Cooper and Matt Lauer came, there was Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, stalwarts of U.S. network news. The latter three were dapper, indeed, but it seemed that journalism came first for them; that...
by Ami Kaufman | Sep 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s kind of strange to see up close someone who has been a familiar television face for me for decades. So, when Dan Rather looked me straight in the eye, I had to look around to see if everybody else was as starstruck as I was. I think they were. Rather met...
by Paul Henson | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Facebook’s New York office on Madison Avenue has that young and brash vibe that you would expect from the social networking giant (though a bit underwhelming, I would imagine, compared to its Menlo Park, California headquarters which we will visit in a couple of...
by Vera Krichevskaya | Sep 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Couple of remarks about my 3 nights in NYC, On Sunday night: The first evening right after we arrived from Minneapolis I spent in a theater. Following the NYT choice I bough a ticket for “Breakfasts with Mugabee” play. The title of the show lured me more that NYT...
by Veronica Kwabla | Sep 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
After three weeks in St. Pauls it was time to hit the road. I call this the “High impact Journey” and this is not because of the cities we will be visiting, which is exciting though, but where we are going and the personalities we will meet. In New York for instance,...
by Elina Lappalainen | Sep 3, 2013 | Global Business
Today it happened. Microsoft said it has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for more than $7.1 billion. This is a historical moment for Finland’s economy and for Finnish business journalism. Finland-based Nokia was once...
by Shakir Reshamwala | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
From farm animals to ferris wheels, and corn to cable cars, the Minnesota State Fair has it all. The fair is probably a microcosm of America – a no-holds-barred display of capitalism, consumerism, politics, resourcefulness and yes, gluttony. I say this without...
by Paul Henson | Sep 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
(Zac Efron stars in the upcoming Kennedy assassination movie as the young doctor who first attended to JFK. Screen grab from official trailer) This October, a new movie on the Kennedy assassination will be released in the U.S., ‘Parkland’, starring Zac Efron,...
by Ami Kaufman | Sep 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow, Sunday, we leave for our whirlwind tour of the States. Our first stop is New York, where we will also visit the New York Times. I’m pretty excited about it, actually. Not that anything special is supposed to happen. But just to see the place that, most...
