"Reporter's Favorites"

As soon as I posted my last entry, I got an email back from Wendy Murray who teaches Feature Writing at Gordon and was a journalist for Christianity Today among other magazines. Here are her top favorites! Two of which we've watched!

Capote- portrays what it takes to write a thorough, complicated, journalistic, tragic piece. It also demonstrates the toll writing can take on a journalist.

The stoning of Soroya M.- powerful because it recognizes the importance of journalists being 'on the ground' (not reporting by reading other reporters reports). This story would never have been told if French-Iranian journalist Feidoune Sahebjam hadnt risked his own neck to tell a compelling and otherwise unknown story. His work has elevated the international profile of abuse of women in extreme islamic countries.

The paper- always remembered this movie because when the reporting had gone unverified, contradicted even when the presses were running, the editor literally 'stopped the presses' to re-run the corrected story. He was willing to take the financial hit to do the right thing journalistically.

Great choices i think!