Ellen Goodman

          Ellen Goodman never expected to become such an influential writer or to win a Pulitzer price. After she attended Radcliffe College, she got married and started to raise a family. She started her writing career in 1961 by becoming a researcher for Newsweek, which was a job that she felt underpaid her and didn’t take her seriously. After Newsweek, she moved Detroit in 1965 and started writing feature stories about women’s issues for the Detroit Free Press. Her family then moved to Boston in 1967, and here she began writing for the women’s section of the Boston Globe. Ellen Goodman was writing at the heart of the women’s movement and her columns started to become the issues on front pages and editorial pages. She then became a columnist and went back to school at Harvard in 1974 because her stories were so influential on the movement. Her column for the Boston Globe was syndicated by the Washington Post, which made her even more popular. Her writings invoked social change in America, especially involving the women’s movement and its effect on people’s private and public lives. Goodman made a career out of telling people what she thinks about pressing issues.

Her writing style developed while she was a columnist. She went from an extremely combative approach in her writing to a more calm, controversial, and even humorous approach on the issues. However, no matter what Goodman wrote about, she always retained her feminist perspective. She likes to show both sides in her confrontational arguments and wants to make sense out of the issues. Her column appeared in over 300 newspapers, along with in speeches, on television, on the radio, and online. Her columns include all sorts of topics from the American family to her own family, from Supermom to Sarah Palin. According to Media Watch, Ellen Goodman is the most widely syndicated progressive columnist in the country. She has written books and collections of her columns have been published. In 1980 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary.

Another accomplishment of Ellen Goodman, aside from her popular column and her Pulitzer prize; is The Conversation Project. She co-founded the project with colleagues and other media professionals. The goal of The Conversation Project is to make it easier for people to talk about dying so that their wishes are known when the time comes. She was inspired to co-found this project because of her own personal experience with her mother’s death. Ellen Goodman’s opinion matters to many people and her columns, books, and project have influenced the lives of many.

Sources

"Ellen Goodman." Ellen Goodman. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.

Ritchie, Donald A. "Ellen Goodman." American Journalists: Getting the Story. New York:

Oxford UP, 1997. 316. Print.

"The Conversation Project." Ellen Goodman Co-Founder and Director. The Conversation

Project, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.

Walter Lippmann

       Walter Lippmann attended Harvard University. While there, he wrote an article for Harvard Illustrated that was inspired by the works of John Ruskin. The article criticized Barrett Wendell for saying that true culture had been "debased by mass taste," and discussed Lippmann's dislike for elitism. The article was read by William James, who was impressed and paid a visit to Lippmann. They discussed "cultural fossils" and the "bright promise of socialism." The two began to meet weekly for tea, and James became one of Lippmann's biggest influences. He wrote that the meetings were "the greatest thing that has happened to [him] in [his] college life." During his time at Harvard, Lippmann also organized a socialist discussion group that had around 50 members.
       Lippmann helped found The New Republic, where he served as the assistant editor. Lippmann's views in his articles influenced President Woodrow Wilson. Lippmann's ideas for a post World War I settlement can be found in Wilson's Fourteen Points; he also helped create the concept for the League of Nations.
       Later, Lippmann wrote editorials for World, where he then became the editor. He left World to write for The New York Herald Tribune where his column "Today and Tomorrow" appeared. Lippmann also wrote many books, including A Preface to Politics, Drift and Mastery, The Good Society, Essays in the Public Philosophy, and No Phantom Public. His most influential book was Public Opinion, which talked about how ordinary citizens could no longer make judgements about public issues because mass media was producing slogans instead of interpretations.
       During his 60-year career, Walter Lippmann became one of the most widely respected political columnists in the world.









http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/342965/Walter-Lippmann

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlippmann.htm

Louis Lautier

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Washington correspondent for African-American newspapers, Louis Lautier, not only reported for major Washington African-American newspapers, but he also made a difference in history.

Lautier started his career with an education from Howard Law School in Washington D.C. He landed his first job in 1923 at Atlanta Independent, but after the paper failed he became a freelance journalist. During this time he worked as a legal stenographer for the Justice Department, while reporting on Washington for several African-American newspapers during the time of the New Deal.

During World War II, Lautier decided he wanted to help end segregation, so he became a Washington correspondent for the National Negro Publisher’s Association, covering Presidential press conferences at the White House. Because of his stenographic skills, other White House reporters would check with Lautier on the accuracy of their quotes. Due to his outstanding work, Lautier was soon appointed head of the National Negro Publisher’s Association.

In 1947, Lautier’s dream of integration in House and Senate press galleries was achieved due to him pushing for integration. The Senate Rules Committee ordered the standing Committee of Correspondents to admit Lautier to the congressional press galleries, making him the first African-American to sit in the press galleries since Fredrick Douglass. During this time he also worked as a correspondent for the Atlanta Daily Word. A few years later, he became the first African-American member of the National Press Club. He wrote about the outrages of segregation and spoke out for school integration.

Louis Lautier is someone worth remembering. He used his skills and passions as a journalist to make a stand for what he believed in. He pushed for integration, and that’s what he achieved. Others working around him looked up to him, which says a lot considering the discrimination of his time. I hope one day I can make an impact with my career like Louis Lautier did.

Sources for info: "NMAH | Archives Center | Portraits of a City: The Scurlock Photographic Studio." NMAH | Archives Center | Portraits of a City: The Scurlock Photographic Studio. National Museum of American History, n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2013.

Ritchie, Donald A. American Journalists: Getting the Story. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.

Alyssa D'Orazio Media Participation Project

For my media participation project, I chose to volunteer at UMTV, and assist with Maryland Newsline. I originally chose to volunteer at UMTV because I had formally aspired to be a TV news anchor. I have looked up to Meredith Vieira for as long as I can remember, and in my house, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer was my childhood equivalent to a lullaby. I have an infatuation with the news, and those who deliver it. I so badly wanted to be one of them. My journalistic aspirations have always been to graduate with a degree in broadcast journalism, start at the bottom at some local news show in the middle of nowhere America, and work my way back to New York City, and one day become the lead anchor of the Today Show. I figured UMTV was a great place to start.

           

Upon first arriving at UMTV, I was given a tour around the studio. Then, I was shown what goes into making Maryland Newsline. I was taught how to angle each camera, how to write the script for the news cast, how to work the audio machines, how to move the script at a perfect pace so the anchors could read it smoothly, and all the other parts that go into producing each broadcast. For the next two times that I volunteered, I assisted in getting the cameras ready, and making sure everything was in place before the broadcast was filmed. For each broadcast, I would sit in the studio and watch each broadcast take place live. It was very interesting to watch each anchors delivering techniques, and to see first hand all the back stage work that goes into producing one broadcast.

           

However, as I am poignant to report, as interesting as this experience was, and as much as I learned about the broadcasting process, something just was not there for me. I didn’t feel a strong connection to working at UMTV. I attempted anchoring while at the studio, enjoyed it, but couldn’t imagine doing it every day for the rest of my life. So, although I am disappointed that I have decided my former “dream job” is no longer what I want, I am excited to see what I will decide to peruse later on. I am glad I had this experience at UMTV, and I may even volunteer there again later on in my college years. But for now, I would like to try something new.

            

Manuel de Dios Unanue

Manuel de Dios Unanue was born on January 4th, 1943. He was born in Cuba and was also a veteran. Unanue was a journalist and the former editor-in-chief of the largest Spanish newspaper in the United States El Diario la Prensa which was in New York City. He was also a radio show host, and an anti-drug crusading editor for magazines such as Crimen and Cambio XXI. 

As mentioned before, Manuel de Dios Unanue was born in Camaguey, Cuba. His family went into voluntary exile after the Castro regime took over Cuba. They first went to Spain and then went to Puerto Rico. As far as education went, Unanue received his M.S. in Criminology from the Inter-American University in Puerto Rico. He then moved to New York in 1973.

His degree in Criminology helped him obtain a job in the Hispanic Criminal Justice Task Force. In 1977, he joined El Diario la Prensa. Manuel quickly worked his way up in the paper starting as a reporter, then a columnist and eventually editor-in-chief. Some of his higher-ups started disliking him a bit because his coverage of the city of New York was very unflattering, and they ended up firing him. 

These journalists and politicians tried to silence a Cuban, but he did not shut up. After leaving the paper he started working at a radio show where he was the main host. On air he publicly criticized different drug lords and used their names. He even published a book named The Secret of the Medellin Cartel. Colleagues of his say that he was the most prominent journalist to expose drug lords and their actions. 

On March 11, 1992 Manuel de Dios Unanue was murdered while sitting at a bar called Meson Asturias Restaurant located in Queens, New York. An unknown person, at that time, approached him and shot him twice in the head. Investigations revealed that the murderer was Wilson Alejandro-Mejia Velez, an illegal alien that worked at a chair factory in Staten Island. The reward to find this man was originally $10,000 but that number skyrocketed to $70,000 by the help of other journalists that were colleagues of Unanue's. Jose Mena was charged with ordering the murder of Manuel and Wilson Alejandro-Mejia Velez was charged as being the shooter.

After that, the reporting on drug cartels from Cali, Colombia grew tremendously.

(Source: textbook and Wikipedia.)

-Tiffany Lorente

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 22, 1940. As the son of an avid newspaper reader father, Shaw was around the news beginning early childhood, but it was the television news that really interested him. He was introduced to CBS news anchor Edward R. Murrow at age eleven and was smitten with the medium.

            His love for reporting continued into adolescence, reporting the morning radio announcements, writing for the school newspaper, and announcing sports events through out his high school years. Unfortunately, his family could not afford college tuition, so Shaw joined the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1961, Shaw was serving in Hawaii when he heard that legendary anchor Walter Cronkite was on the island. After a lot of effort, he finally spotted Cronkite in the lobby of his hotel and proceeded to have a 30-minute conversation with Cronkite, who later called him “the most persistent guy I’ve ever met”.

            After leaving the Marines in 1963, Shaw enrolled at the University of Illinois in Chicago, taking classes and volunteering for free in the newsroom of a local radio station, which later turned into a real job. He juggled radio and college until 1968, when his professional skills caught the eye of Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, who offered Shaw the position of White House correspondent. Shaw knew the job would prevent him from finishing his last year of college, but took it anyways.

            His radio career ended in 1971, when CBS News hired him for their prestigious Washington bureau, where one of his first pieces was reported by Walter Cronkite himself. Shaw covered all of Washington, spanning from the State Department to the Supreme Court. In spite of the magnitude of the job, within a few years Shaw felt a pull to go overseas. After CBS News declined his request, he switched to ABC News. He reported on everything South American, from the Panama Canal to the revolution in Nicaragua. After it became dangerous, Shaw returned to the states where he made the daring decision to join the young CNN network in 1980.

            While initially chaotic and disrespected, CNN quickly made a name for themselves with their 24-hour constant news broadcasts. Shaw got the jump on the other networks with such scoops like the Reagan assassination attempt. In October 1987, CNN was officially part of the major networks, with an invitation into the Oval Office.

            Shaw has accomplished much in his reporting career, but being at the center of the Baghdad bombing in 1991 is the most shining achievement for Shaw, who traveled the world for CNN covering many major international news stories. Shaw’s career is one of hard work and success. He is truly a risk taker, pioneer, and fearless journalist.  

            

RJ Kaminski's Media Participation Project

For my media participation project, I followed around Diamondback photographer Christian Jenkins during the Terps last regular season ACC soccer game.  He takes thousands of photos during each game, edits them, and submits them to the editors so that they can be published the next day.  He makes a set amount of money for each photo that gets published, which gives him a nice small income on the side.  I thought he'd be perfect to shadow because he takes photography very seriously and has aspirations of doing it for a career after he graduates in 2016.    

We met at the south campus diner and then walked to the game to be sure we got there for the pre-game ceremonies.  Along the way, he taught me how to switch lenses quickly and how to work each camera.  Once we reached the stadium, we both received media wristbands and quickly ran to centerfield to photograph the seniors with their families and framed jerseys.  It was great to see other professional photographers there as well.  My favorite photographer that I met was a man named Gregg who photographs each and every Maryland athletic event for the University.  Our conversations ranged from photojournalism ethics to some of his experiences in the field.  Following around and watching Christian and Gregg shoot was awesome, especially because they're so good at what they do.  Their cameras allow them to take multiple shots within a half second time frame.  The technology they use is incredible!  We were able to shoot from all angles of the field and eventually make our way to the press-box to get free pizza.  It was cool going in there because I got to hear both teams' radio broadcasts going on as well.  So I got to experience two subjects of interest to me in both photography and sports broadcasting.  

I feel as if this experience has shown me that there's more to photography than I first thought.  Besides taking the photos, there's hours of editing required to narrow down the best shots.  Christian even took me back to the photography room at the Diamondback headquarters.  It was great to see what the inside of a newspaper organization looked like.  I could totally see myself working there in the future as Christian says he loves the people he works with. My initial interests have always been sports radio and broadcasting, but after experiencing what I did at the soccer game, I feel like photojournalism could really be something I'd enjoy doing as well.