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Will Journalism Survive - No, Maybe, Yes??

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After watching The Killing Fields, a film highlighting aspects of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg’s coverage of the war in Cambodia, I longed to be an international correspondent.  The power and importance of the truth compelled me to the nomadic and sometimes dangerous lifestyle that usually leaves many single and comforted by cheap cigarettes and [...]

Students/Educators Take No Child Left Behind to Heart

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As the school year wraps up, many, including myself, are caught up with graduation excitement. My niece graduated from high school this month, and I am very proud to share her accomplishment and celebrate her academic achievements as if they were my own.

Photo courtesy of Pushout Philly blog

But, what if she had dropped [...]

Newspapers continue to thrive despite the contrary

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Photo courtesy of Zoetnet on Flickr

Newspapers are dying out. Traditional media is becoming extinct. Everything is being digitized. As one who originally went to college to pursue a journalism career, I changed career paths shortly after graduating because the buzz about the dwindling newspaper industry scared me right out of my mind. [...]

Advocating Social Change One Person At A Time

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For months I waited for the screening of “Enemies of the People,” to arrive at the West End Cinema. Initially I was excited to watch the engrossing documentary about a Cambodian man’s search for answers to why leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime brutally murdered nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population.  But when I [...]

A Year of InSites: Getting Hired as a Public Relations Professional

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This guest blog post is from Sarim Ngo, a Communications Assistant and one of Vanguard’s newest employees.

As a young professional still learning the ropes of the public relations industry, I was ecstatic to learn that public relations specialists landed on U.S. News’ 50 Best Careers of 2011 list.

To come up with this year’s list, [...]