The Cost of Failed Attribution of Facts
By Mike Knittle
The failure to properly attribute facts and assertions in a worldwide news story led to false perceptions and non-stop media attention upon Richard Jewell.
On Saturday July 27, 1996, a bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Georgia. In “Judging Jewell,” part of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, Director Adam Hootnick highlights the story of how Jewell went from being thought as a hero to then being wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Untold Stories
By Mike Knittle
The statistics of police work do not always tell the whole story about the area in which someone lives, especially on college campuses, according to Detective Jamie Reardon of the Amherst Police Department.
In a meeting with University of Massachusetts Journalism students and their Professor Mary Carey, Reardon explained to the students that there are many cases in which the statistics do not match up with the original story. While talking to the students in a meeting room inside the walls of the police department on Tuesday, December 1, Reardon informed the students that if there were no conviction in a case, sometimes that case would not become a statistic.
The Griswold Effect
By Mike Knittle
For students in modern America, it is unfathomable to believe that the use of contraception was a crime 50 years ago in Massachusetts, said Linda Greenhouse said in front of about 150 students and community members at the UMass Amherst Campus Center, on Thursday.
UMass Junior Breaks Gender Barrier At WMUA Sports
By Mike Knittle
In the spring semester of 2015, UMass Junior Bridgette Proulx became the first full-time woman to be named Sports Production Director in the 66 year history of 91.1 WMUA.
Her first goal as director is to influence other women to get involved at WMUA, the student radio station at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Stigma is the Issue, Not You
By Mike Knittle and Sarah Corso
Grace, a high school senior, learned much about her classmate’s views on mental illness last spring when they acted unkindly by making fun of a character in a movie that had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, also known as OCD. Little did they know she suffered from that same mental illness. It was at that moment she realized that not telling others about her disorder was the right decision.
The Tab UMass Amherst Is An Instant ‘Hit’
By Mike Knittle and Sarah Corso
Students at the University of Massachusetts have another source of student generated campus news in The Tab.
On October 1, 2015, The Tab UMass Amherst chapter officially launched as a campus news source written by students about topics that their college-aged peers want to read about.
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