Author Anita M. Harris, whose new book is about the founding of the Harrisburg Independent Press, urges readers to donate to Cambridge Day.
Category: Journalism
The free press, the truth, and making a difference.
HIP STAFFERS LAUNCH KICKSTARTER TO PRESERVE 1970s ALTERNATIVE 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.
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
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.
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!
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