In John Oliver’s segment on Last Week Tonight, he discusses the rise of native advertising. That is, disguising an advertisement as a news story. Advertisers adopt the tools of narration to make their ads less conspicuous and more entertaining to the consumer. Oliver describes the rather grim ramifications of the blurring lines between the “church and state.”…
When WTVT, a Fox television station in Tampa, Flordia launched an investigative news segment, I’m sure they had no idea how deep their journalists would dig. Emmy Award winning journalists, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, created a four-part news series centered around Monsanto’s practice of using Bovine Growth hormones (rbGH or rbST). At the time, 90 percent…
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) is an Oscar-nominated film about Edward R. Murrow, one of the most famous and influential broadcast journalists of all time. The movie chronicles his experience as a journalist during the McCarty era. During this time, Americans were overly suspicious of anything related to communism. Senator Joseph McCarthy alleged that a…
“Don’t wait to be told what to do,” encourages Tyler Rogers, a member of the internship panel hosted by Georgia State University (GSU) at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYS). On February 23, GSU students gather to hear first-hand experiences from fellow students who obtained interesting internships in the non-profit sector. Rogers earned…
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