The Murrow College Backpack Journalism Program is in the field again, this time with Murrow seniors Mindy Rossner and Megan Garrity.
Mindy--an NWPR news writer--is outside Colombo, Sri Lanka, embedded with the Millennium Elephant Foundation, a charity begun in 1999 to improve the lives of injured and captive elephants. Megan is in Guatemala reporting on the work of the medical charity Hearts in Motion. You can follow them through the Murrow College Backpack Journalism Blog.
Student journalist Mohammed Bahashwan had a first-hand view of a violent protest at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, using his cell phone to capture video of the chaotic scene.
This past summer, 20 Arab journalism students studied mass media at WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. The students - who were funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - spent six weeks in the U.S. Their intinerary included trips around the Pacific Northwest, California’s Silicon Valley, and news outlets in Washington, D.C.
These radio essays provide personal insights into America’s image and influence on the Arab world. Students were asked to write essays with a simple headline: “This is America.”
The Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University recently was host to a special day-long discussion of the information landscape in Washington with a particular emphasis on the information needs of the rural population.
