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Feb. 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc
A Dying Art
"...as this seems to be a dying art in "journalism" these days. Some aspects of this just came up..."
Oct. 1, 2016 Postmarks
Public Notice: Waiting for Ott to Go
A short play, in one looong act
"...Hawaiian shirts. Donations are tax-deductible, and benefit the New Journalism Project, the nonprofit behind the Rag Blog and Rag..."
July 29, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Ken Herman —30—
"...newspaper where his cringeworthy commentary can still pass as 'journalism,' let alone wisdom."..."
April 1, 2016 News Feature by Michael King
Truth
Drama about how Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes got fired from CBS
"...other strands, while also showing what a human profession journalism is. The film’s lingering implication is that the outcome..."
Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Late Night TV Is About to Get Downright Gaar-ish
Stand-up comic Brian Gaar hosts a new Austin-based show on the CW
"...in my life I'm not on the safe path. Journalism was sort of the safe path. Which I know..."
Sept. 18, 2015 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Unpacking Serial
Co-creator / reporter Sarah Koenig on how the groundbreaking podcast came to be
"...AC: You've talked about the ethics of consuming journalism as entertainment and the difficulty of dealing with a..."
July 31, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires
The Hightower Report
Corporate-media symbiosis
"...of Monsanto's propaganda, not exactly the stuff of real journalism...."
June 26, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower
Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent's Notebook
A UT professor recounts his three decades of reporting in Asia
"...experiences along the way. Since 2006, he's been a journalism professor at the University of Texas. As an educator..."
May 1, 2015 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett
DVDanger: Advice to Young Journalists
What cinema tells us about what we expect from the news
"...what Stewart does on The Daily Show is not journalism. He is a comedian and commentator, and the commentary..."
Feb. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Interview
See how a goofy comedy can spark an international incident.
"...Rapaport (Rogen), who regrets not living up to his journalism-school potential. In addition to the singular coup of being..."
Jan. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
A Hollywood star falls to earth with mad, exhilarating results.
"...points of interest: backstage drama; smirking send-up of celebrity journalism and serious arts criticism both; the enduring coastal war..."
Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
SXSW Interactive Announces Programming
Panels, sessions, meet ups, and more
"...Humanitarian Drones: Locating Vietnam Era Bombs Drones for Good: Journalism and Crowdsourced UAVs Drones & the Texas 500: A..."
Oct. 20, 2014 Screens Post by James Renovitch
For No Good Reason
The artist Ralph Steadman, best known for his illustrations of Hunter S. Thompson's books, is profiled in this documentary.
"...Hunter S. Thompson, illustrating the majority of Thompson’s gonzo journalism, in fact basically visualizing that early-Seventies movement. So it..."
June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Margaret Moser Exit Interview
No Cassandra complex for Austin’s senior music journalist
"...last Friday, so in her final days as my journalism mentor, she acquiesced to an interview about her career...."
May 22, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham
Teacher's Day: School's Out Forever
Only Alice Cooper could describe leaving school for the last time
"...McNeil High School. My Uncle James suggested I take Journalism 1, which led me to Theresa Proctor's newsroom, tucked..."
May 6, 2014 Chronolog Post by Nina Hernandez
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows
Austin Music Awards Director Margaret Moser goes out with a bang
"...Foot. In the early stages of a career in journalism that sprang from her leadership of the Texas Blondes,..."
March 14, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger
SXSW Lands Glenn Greenwald
'Guardian' journalist broke the Snowden story to the world
"...Greenwald's is now a textbook name in discussions of journalism, activism, and the power of the Web...."
Dec. 12, 2013 SXSW Post by Monica Riese
Philomena
Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in this drama about the search for a woman's son who was taken from her when he was a toddler.
"...he declaims human-interest stories as a repugnant form of journalism, he stumbles into a juicy story and finds a..."
Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Armstrong Lie
What's a filmmaker to do with all the footage shot during Lance Armstrong's inspirational bicycling comeback in 2009 but reshape it into a documentary about a sports hero who couldn't stop lying?
"...more a good save than a muckraking piece of journalism. The documentary goes into great detail about the many..."
Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Huffington's Solution: More Meditation and Wonder
HuffPo head wants us all to have a better attitude
"...that influence is for good or ill, especially in journalism. While the site regularly touts its Pulitzers for investigative..."
Oct. 25, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Texas Book Festival Panel Picks
Can't-miss events at this weekend's festival
"..."Masha Hamilton and Deanne Stillman on the line between journalism and fiction." Nothing like a bunch of newspaper nerds..."
Oct. 23, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese
Rob Thomas' Unlikely Route to Young Adult Fiction
'Veronica Mars' creator dishes on teens, fans, and the movie
"...And then my first job post-college was high school journalism teacher in San Antonio. Strangely I ended up with..."
Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry
Letters at 3AM: The Curious Case of the Missing Quotation
Jimmy Carter says the U.S. has no functioning democracy at present, and the press goes silent
"...That is why virtually the entire profession of journalism passed on Jimmy Carter's quotation. Journalists dread that, if..."
Sept. 6, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura
Almost Famous
Searching for soundtracks at j-school Meccas
"...professor had their own idea of the state of journalism. Hopeless as they were, I found odd jobs because..."
July 25, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston
RIP Chet Flippo
Noted music critic Chet Flippo dies in Nashville
"...Fort Worth-born Flippo had just gotten his master’s in journalism from UT when he became the publication’s New York..."
June 20, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser
Bitten by Truth
'High Tech, Low Life' explores citizen reporting in China
"...personal blog. "The truth is, I don't know what journalism is," he tells his camera, but that has not..."
April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Mary Margaret Farabee: In Memoriam
Philanthropist and Texas Book Festival co-founder has died
"...for architects, and the establishment of the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, honoring journalism in the spirit of Molly Ivins...."
March 5, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Keep Calm and Party On
Everything you need to know to navigate SXSW Film
"...Long-form journalism is so passé. I prefer nugget-sized. You know you’re..."
March 4, 2013 Screens Post
The Sessions
A sex therapist helps a man living in an iron lung experience human intimacy; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt keep things from becoming prurient.
"...to attend college on a self-propelled gurney, earn a journalism degree, and write with an assistive device he operated..."
