Tag Archives: newspapers

Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

What do midwestern tabloid newspapers put on their covers when they are tired of snow and cold? Why, puppies, of course!!!  Is America facing a Velveeta shortage heading into the NFL playoff season? And if so, whatever will we do … Continue reading →

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Using narrative and other techniques in depth reporting

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

I’m posting here the readings that I’m assigning to my Depth Reporting Students.  Why?  So they will be easy for my students to find and because these are great things for anyone interested in journalism to read: New York Times: … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Who has America’s oldest college newspaper? At least eight different papers claim the title.  Of course, each paper uses its own standard to determine the “oldest.”  (Thanks to College Media Matters from the Associated Collegiate Press) How sexist were ads … Continue reading →

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“I have a dream…” Washington Post virtually ignored the speech 50 years ago

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Today was the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what is considered to be one of the great speeches of the 20th century, if not one of the best American speeches ever: And … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow’s Washington Post Front Page

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Ralph Hanson
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

The news started breaking on Twitter this afternoon that there was a big meeting coming up at at the Washington Post today.  Not long after word came that Amazon founder and space memorabilia collector Jeff Bezos had purchased the paper for … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 13 – The Hazelwood Decision’s 25th Anniversary

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Twenty-five years ago, the United States Supreme Court  ruled that a high school principal in Hazelwood, Missouri, had the right to censor articles in the student newspaper about pregnancy and divorce.  The court, in its ruling, wrote: The First Amendment … Continue reading →

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When do you run a disturbing photo?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

This photo (and cover headlines) from the New York Post earlier this week have been attracting an enormous amount of attention.  Post freelancer R. Umar Abbasi took the photo of Ki Suk Han, who was pushed in front of the … Continue reading →

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NY Times v. Guy Fieri – The News Value of a Brutal Review

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

You may have heard that last week New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells absolutely savaged Food Network host Guy Fieri’s new Times Square restaurant Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar. The review, written entirely as a series of questions, suggests that … Continue reading →

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Best Obit Ever

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

I hope when I die my family can have this good of a sense of humor about it.

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