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No Place Like Homeskillet, Kai Uyehara
No Place Like Homeskillet, Kai Uyehara
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The iconic Sunnyland breakfast spot, Homeskillet, closed after punctuating its ten-year run with a celebratory brunch party. Watch a community built around warm hospitality, hearty comfort food and eclectic decorations gather to bid farewell to a Bellingham favourite in this video feature story. To construct this six minute video, I pulled from my knowledge of storytelling through multimedia learned in my years at Western Washington University earning an English Creative Writing major, a journalism minor and participating in a film production club. This video feature story dwells within a smaller quadrant of journalism: feel-good journalism. Community and hospitality are at …
The Internet Never Forgets: Student Journalists Meet The "Right To Be Forgotten", Emily R. Feek
The Internet Never Forgets: Student Journalists Meet The "Right To Be Forgotten", Emily R. Feek
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This study examines how journalists at college publications handle unpublishing requests in the context of United States media law, the European Union's Right to be Forgotten and journalistic ethics. Interviews with student editors at Washington state public universities' student newspapers were used to examine how student publications address requests for information or entire articles to be unpublished and what those editors' attitudes toward unpublishing are. This research reveals that this subset of student journalists tended to favor alternatives to unpublishing, although articles could be removed ethically in some select cases, and a lack of consistent guidelines regarding how to manage …
Media Coverage Of Transgender People Through Danica Roem’S Election Coverage, Asia Fields
Media Coverage Of Transgender People Through Danica Roem’S Election Coverage, Asia Fields
Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Award
Danica Roem’s race in Virginia against incumbent Robert Marshall drew national attention, despite being an election for a state legislature seat. This is because Roem, a transgender woman and former journalist, was running against a man who once referred to himself as “chief homophobe” and introduced a failed bill to make it legal to discriminate against transgender, non-binary and genderqueer individuals. Prominent newspapers like the New York Times and USA Today covered Roem’s election, and the Washington Post had thorough coverage of Roem’s candidacy as well, as the election took place in its regional coverage zone. These papers' coverage over …
700 Inches On The Media, Leanne Josephson
700 Inches On The Media, Leanne Josephson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Working at a professional publication is the most valuable experience an aspiring journalist can have. An internship at a daily newspaper provides insight into the operation of a news organization, the role of a newspaper in a community and the stresses of working in a place governed by dollars and deadlines. More importantly, it provides practical experience in gathering, writing and reporting the news. For this reason, I chose to extend my internship at The Olympian for my Honors project. I worked 160 hours at the newspaper, hours that turned out to be both more valuable and more rewarding than …