Carolyn Nielsen

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June 3 presentation to focus on innovative teaching methods in 'teaching for tolerance' 2011-06-02
Nielsen has article published on mass communication scholarship 2011-03-04
Three WWU faculty members to be part of Innovative Teaching Showcase 2011-02-04
Judge blocks third attempt to subpoena reporter's notes

A federal judge in Seattle Friday quashed the third subpoena served on a reporter by lawyers representing the Chicago Police Department in a civil rights lawsuit, highlighting in her ruling the importance of protecting the First Amendment-based reporter’s privilege not to testify about sources…

2010-11-18
Carolyn Nielsen presents manuscript at Texas conference 2010-09-01
WWU journalism instructor gets court victory, heralds win for reporters

A Western Washington University journalism assistant professor just got some major protection from a federal judge, and she's calling it a win for all reporters. Carolyn Nielsen will not have to turn over information about her reporting on a story about a 13-year-old boy convicted of murder…

2010-08-23
Judge quashes subpoena for journalism professor's notes

Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled in favor of Carolyn Nielsen, who wrote articles about a now-exonerated teenage murder defendant during graduate school. Pechman also awarded Nielsen a protective order against future deposition and her…

2010-08-19
Carolyn Nielsen presents papers at Denver conference 2010-08-13
When does diversity equal bias rather than benefit?

Soon after television stations aired a videotape of Shirley Sherrod talking about whether she could overcome her own racial bias to help a white farmer save his farm, further reporting showed the tape had been edited to take her words out of context. The full tape revealed that Sherrod, who is…

2010-08-09
WWU professor pulled back into '94 murder trial

"In 1994, Carolyn Nielsen was a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism when she wrote stories that questioned the trial and subsequent murder conviction of a 14-year-old Chicago boy.

Nothing came of it then. The boy,…

2010-03-29
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