reporters and reporting

Examines the design, rhetorical devices, and power inherent in different forms of news, from newspapers to the Internet, the radio, and television, covering the facts about who owns news venues, various ethical issues, and the role of investigative journalism amid war and an increase in newspaper circulations outside of the West.

Nashville reporter Ochs Jones decides to do a little investigating of his own when the beloved African-American mayor of the city is assassinated and the facts surrounding the case and the suspected killer fail to make sense.

Discusses how the power and status of the press have changed throughout history and explains how those changes have affected the relationship between the government and the media.

William Boot, a quiet writer of a nature column for London's "Daily Beast" becomes the inadvertent star of British super-journalism when he is mistakenly sent to cover the war in Ishmaelia.

After twenty years, a 38 year-old woman awakens from a coma. She does not know her boyfriend has been convicted of her attempted murder or that he has escaped from prison and is making his way toward her.

Frank Balenger is a New York Times reporter doing a Sunday magazine profile on urban explorers, better known as creepers. It's an illegal activity but a very popular one, in which adventure seekers invade crumbling old structures in search of thrills and perhaps a glimpse of the past. Frank joins a team of four as they prepare to enter the long-shuttered and mysterious Paragon Hotel. They surreptitiously enter as darkness envelops the city, planning to emerge before dawn none the worse for wear. At least that's the plan. Initially they encounter the expected assortment of crumbling furniture, magazines, and rats, but soon they realize they are not alone, and their counterparts are not friendly people. It turns out that Frank's group has a hidden agenda involving treasure, and their rivals are after the same loot. Throw in an even more unfriendly kidnapper and his captor, and you have a nightmare in the making.

Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.

Joe Talbot, filling in at "The Oakdale Chronicle" when the entire staff comes down with the flu, calls on Wishbone for help when a red-hot case breaks right under his nose.

A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go underground while trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of two Supreme Court Justices.

Examines television journalism, print journalism, and mass media and their effect on society as a whole, covering topics such as "What is news?," "Fairness and bias," Citizen journalism," and "Media literacy 101.".