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Ethical Lessons: In this semester’s 409 class, I truly learned a lot about the journalism in the U.S. There are two important ethical lessons I remember the most from the lecture. One is conflict of interest, which journalists should have … Continue reading →

Situation Definition On February 16th, 2001, 32-years-old Karla Gutierrez drove her car off the road and plunged into a canal. As her car begin to sink, she called 911 on her phone. The call lasted for 3 minutes and 30 … Continue reading →

On October 24th, I attended the Foster-Foreman conference in Schwab Auditorium to hear John Eligon speak. John Eligon is a national correspondent who works for The New York Times. During his speech, he shared his experience on interviewing people who … Continue reading →

You need to make thousands of lies to just cover up one lie. In the end of the movie Shattered Glass, Stephen Glass admits that the 27 of 41 articles he wrote for The New Republic were fabricated. The process … Continue reading →

Things have two sides. If you want to know the facts of something, you need to comprehend both sides of it. Nowadays, people get more and more blundering both on the internet and in reality, they always make comments about … Continue reading →