News21 Archive

  • Building Trust With Sources

    Building Trust With Sources

    There is no doubt that complexities will arise when you are a journalist from Arizona working on a story dealing with the Latino population. Due mainly to its new immigration law, our state is facing numerous challenges in court, a battle with the federal government,...

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  • San Francisco’s Mission District

    San Francisco’s Mission District

    San Francisco’s Mission District has been a hub of Hispanic culture since Mexican immigrants first began settling there in the 1940s. In the decades that followed, the neighborhood became emblematic of the city’s sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants: a bustling and vibrant place where Hispanic...

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  • Have camera(s), will report

    Have camera(s), will report

    Chicago is approximately 2,000 miles from our News21 newsroom in Phoenix. And I was there, as a backpack-journalism team of one. Having worked for the past semester as a student news producer, never asked to leave the newsroom or conduct an interview, it was time...

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  • ASU News21 in 2010

    ASU News21 in 2010

    Last year, when we chose Latino and Borderlands issues as our focus for ASU News21, we knew we were setting out to tackle a timely and important topic.  We also felt we were uniquely positioned to provide quality coverage. These issues have long been a...

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  • Day 3

    Day 3

    Our bite-sized “Flip” video cameras arrived today. Spontaneous video to come! Here’s some test video from ground zero, ASU’s News21 newsroom. FYI: vimeo provides much higher-quality audio. Jody Brannon, News21 day 3 from Evan Wyloge on Vimeo. (If you see Jeremy Pennycook trying to eat...

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  • Day One!

    Day One!

    Today is May 18th and that means it is day one for the ten-week News21 program. Things kicked off with a bang here at ASU as we began the morning with a rise-and-shine 9am meeting to start the summer. We went over a few logistics,...

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