PLEASE HELP SAVE INDEPENDENT CAMBRIDGE NEWS
Author Anita M. Harris, whose new book is about the founding of the Harrisburg Independent Press, urges readers to donate to Cambridge Day.
Journalism
The free press, the truth, and making a difference.
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris writes that the free press–alternative or traditional–can make a huge difference in peoples’ lives simply by reporting the truth.
HIP STAFFERS LAUNCH KICKSTARTER TO PRESERVE 1970s ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
Before Watergate, before Woodward and Bernstein, before the Internet and before the current President’s attacks on the free press, author Anita Harris helped found a weekly independent newspaper. She urges you to contribute to a Kickstarter to preserve that newspaper for future generations.
Journalist/Producer Bill Lichtenstein Wins Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism
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.
Innovation, Journalism, Media, media finance, New Media, newspapers, press
Newsrooms Must Adopt “Innovation Culture” To Survive, Google Exec says
Cambridge writer Anita Harris reports on Google News Exec’s advice to newspaper industry at Nieman Foundation, May 11, 2012
Harvard, Journalism, Media
Today Show’s Ann Curry Describes PTSD, Discouragement and Hope at Harvard Nieman Foundation
Anita Harris, PR Consultant, on Today Show’s Ann Curry description of trauma, importance of caring in foreign reporting.
City Living, Journalism, Media, new cambridge observer, New Media, social media
Televised Panel on Web & Civic Engagement to include New Cambridge Observer
I’m pleased to be speaking about New Cambridge Observer on a panel presented by Cambridge Community Television–and televised on Boston’s Channel Ten on April 13 at 6:30 pm!
Books & Publishing, free press, Journalism, Media, media finance, New Media, newspapers, press, social media
ProPublica: Newsgathering of, by and for the people
I think it’s exciting that members of the public can now help the press enhance understanding of the world we live in. I do wonder how many people will remain interested in contributing for free. But for journalists, here’s a scoop: ProPublica is hiring.
—–Anita Harris
