‘Democracy Now!’ host to speak at GJR First Amendment celebration in March Gateway Journalism Review will again host a First Amendment celebration on March 29. The event will take place at the Edward Jones Headquarters in Des Peres, Mo. Longtime St. Louis publisher Ray Hartmann will serve as the master of ceremonies, and Amy Goodman, host of “Democracy Now!”, will be the keynote speaker. Those interested in attending should email GJR at gatewayjr@siu.edu. For more information about Goodman, please read the following official biography from the www.democracynow.org website: Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of “Democracy Now!”, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 1,100 public television and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named “Democracy Now!” its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. The Independent of London called Goodman and “Democracy Now!” “an inspiration.” PULSE named her one of the 20 top global media figures of 2009. Goodman’s fifth book, “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope,” written with Denis Moynihan, rose to No. 11 on the New York Times best-seller list. This timely follow-up to her fourth New York Times best-seller, “Break-
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Opinion & Columns 3 • O mbudsmen in decline: An ominous trend for American press by William A. Babcock
ing the Sound Barrier,” gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. She co-wrote the first three best-sellers with her brother, journalist David Goodman: “Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times” (2008), “Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back” (2006) and “The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them” (2004). She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting. Goodman has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award, the Paley Center for Media’s She’s
FIRST AMENDMENT CELEBRATION benefiting
St. Louis Journalism Review Gateway Journalism Review
March 29, 2014
6 to 9:30 p.m. at Edward Jones Headquarters in St. Louis featuring
Amy Goodman
Award-winning host of Democracy Now!
Ray Hartmann
Master of Ceremonies Your invitation will follow. Scan the QR code for more information Amy Goodman
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Made It Award and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She also has received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored. Goodman received the first-ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication. She also was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. Goodman has an honorary doctorate from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. g
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4 • Principals say merged news operations will be independent by Charles Klotzer
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5 • R evisiting the Jayson Blair story by Jessica Z. Brown
7 • C hicago’s news from the ’hood’ by John McCarron
6 • Hoping a new media sensitivity might emerge from the Newtown tragedy by Eileen Byrnes 30 • A s TIME goes by: On the passing of an American institution by George Salamon
Merger 9 • B eacon-KWMU merger: Journalism re-imagined by Jan Schaffer 10 • K WMU join forces for the better in St. Louis by Roy Malone
Media Accountability 20 • S ocial media campaing by former P-D writer alleges P-D mistakes by William H. Freivogel
Cyberbullying 16 • C yberbullying ties schools, students in legal knots by Scott Lambert 18 • L imiting social media may curtail cyberbullying by Sharon Wittke
Around the Arch 26 • A lton Telegraph newsroom evokes fond memories by Paul Van Slambrouck 28 • M edia notes by Benjamin Israel
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