Our friend Bill Lichtenstein has won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for “A Terrifying Way to Discipline Chlldren,” an Op Ed piece he wrote for the September 8, 2012 New York Times. Lichtenstein, an investigative journalist and filmmaker, exposed the largely unknown use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in schools across the country.
Tag: New York TImes
Health Reform: The Right Thing To do
While current health reform legislation needs tweaking and will be subject to change, I firmly support it. It’s the right thing to do.
Ebooks and authors: The math of publishing doesn’t add up
Authors have no idea what books cost or what profits publishers make. But even a former English major like me can figure out that authors make next-to-nothing…If only I had a day job, I’d know not to quit it, just yet.
Boston/NY Newspaper War: Pulitzer Winners Face off
Was surprised last night when two Pulitzer prize winning journalists locked horns on WGBH-TV’s Greater Boston over NYT
Joining Blog Rally to help the Boston Globe
The New Cambridge Observer is pleased to join Beth Israel Hospital’s Paul Levy et all in the blog rally to help the Boston Globe.
The Economy: Where are we headed?
In a talk at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, New York Times Business Columnist Joe Nocera offered background and commentary on the current financial crisis. In answer to the question posed by the talk’s title: The Economy: Where are we Headed,” he resoundingly proclaimed, “I don’t know.”