'Game Change' premiere screening
Julianne Moore must have done a lot of research for her role as Sarah Palin in the HBO film “Game Change,” because at the Newseum premiere on Thursday night, the actress dodged some political questions like a seasoned pro.
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Angelina Jolie marks directorial debut in DC
Washington, D.C., had a taste of Hollywood glamor Tuesday evening at the Holocaust Memorial Museum when A-list actors and real-life couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made an appearance.
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Dems: Medicare turned red district blue
Senate Democrats Wednesday continued their push against the GOP Budget and changes to Medicare saying that the Republican plan handed Democrats a victory in the New York special election.
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Budget concerns lead Panetta confirmation
Senators opened Thursday's Armed Service's hearing into the nomination of CIA director Leon Panetta to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense with questions about the need to trim costs wile retaining the Pentagons muscle. Watch this piece
Senators opened Thursday's Armed Service's hearing into the nomination of CIA director Leon Panetta to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense with questions about the need to trim costs wile retaining the Pentagons muscle. Watch this piece
An eye in the sky
A short documentary I produced as a M.A. student in Communication, Culture, and Technology examining the use of unmanned aerial vehicle technology in modern warfare. Watch this piece
A short documentary I produced as a M.A. student in Communication, Culture, and Technology examining the use of unmanned aerial vehicle technology in modern warfare. Watch this piece
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SCOUTS hearings: Affordable Care Act
This article was published in the journal Electronic Media and Politics in March, 2012
The world wide web is an open platform where anybody can create a page using the standard hypertext markup language and users are free to move across locations on the web and visit any other site without restrictions. Openness and equality, which guided the early web, was lost in its later years to walled gardens which eventually fell. Now openness is being sacrificed again, not to the extent of the early walled gardens but to their successors, the social networks who have erected their own walls directing users to see only selected and ranked content.
Earlier editions of Governing with the News by Timothy E. Cook argues for a monolithic media entity where decisions are made by its leaders to use their publications to influence politics and are in turn influenced by those politics. The book proposes the following hypothesis: “news media organizations and their products, far from being independent of politics, are highly influenced by political practices and political decisions.” While this might have been true when the first edition of the book was published in 1998, by the time the second edition arrived in 2005 it was leaning towards untrue and today the hypothesis is false.
About Me
I am a multimedia producer creating online news stories for TheHill.com and working towards an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. In May, 2010 I graduated from The George Washington University with a double major in Journalism & Mass Communication and History, two areas in which I have always held a strong interest.
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- Multimedia Producer May 2009-Present, The Hill Newspaper, Washington D.C.
- Intern September 2008-December 2008, Third Floor Productions (A Story House Company) Washington D.C.
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