UMass Internet Journalist

"I tried to bring the instincts of a scholar to the service of journalism; to take nothing for granted; to turn journalism into literature; to provide radical analysis with a conscientious concern for accuracy, and in studying the current scene to do my very best to preserve human values and free institutions." -- I.F. Stone Graphic and quote from University of Massachusetts Journalism Department brochure.

Can the World-Wide Web help educators teach values and practices espoused by serious journalists? Or will it only further cloud the very definition of what a journalist is or should be -- drawing all of us further into the fog of mind-numbing media commercialism and info-entertainment?
Stay tuned ...
Started in February 1996 to teach news writing and magazine article writing on the World-Wide Web, this site was archived in May 1996 and is no longer under construction.

--Sara Grimes