Author Archives: rlh5274

  This course taught me a lot more than I thought it ever would. Other courses teach you how to be a journalist and use equipment, but many courses don’t discuss the types of situations you will encounter on the … Continue reading →

Rebecca Himmelstein   On April 2nd I attended the Foster-Foreman Conference featuring the speaker David Finkel. Finkel is a writer and reporter for the Washington Post and wrote the book “The Good Soldiers”. In Finkel’s speech, he spoke about his … Continue reading →

On Tuesday night, I attended the Oweida Lecture with Bill Marimow. Marimow has won two Pulitzer prizes and worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Public Radio, and the Baltimore Sun. In his speech, Marimow discussed specific cases he experienced that … Continue reading →

  “Shattered Glass” is the true story of a young journalist who turns to fabrication in order to succeed. Stephen Glass is a young writer for The New Republic who created false quotes, people, and even entire stories over the … Continue reading →

I believe in embracing change. I hate to admit it, but there were three other versions of this essay before I settled on this one. Each time my fingers would gloss over the keyboard with little taps here and there, … Continue reading →