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An Untold Life: Steve "Stumbletown" Adams

As a young boy, Steve had already developed his mischievous grin: one that unwrapped and crinkled across his cheekbones. His eyes, reflecting the joy, twinkled like starlight on tinfoil. The grin would show itself readily: as he played with baking ingredients atop a flour-coated counter top, as…

2013-06-10
Students honored by Society for Professional Journalists 2013-05-30
Students' enthusiasm inspires the experienced

It was supposed to be the other way around.

When the student newspaper adviser at Western Washington University asked us to meet with his students in Bellingham last week, he wanted us to talk about our careers and the changing newspaper industry. Convince them there is a future in…

2013-05-20
Nielsen has article published in Howard Journal of Communications 2013-05-03
Journalism's Carolyn Nielsen has chapter published in 'Identity and Communication' 2013-04-18
Student mini-docs to be shown April 11 2013-04-10
Sunshine week celebrates Washington's right to open public records

Nearly fifty years ago a middle-school student and her friends set a major free speech case into motion by wearing a black armband to school to protest the Vietnam war.

They subsequently protested their suspension from school. And eventually won: In 1969 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in…

2013-03-12
First Amendment advocate gives students a lesson in speaking up

In 1965, a shy 13-year-old girl and a small piece of black cloth set in motion a fight that helped shape the rights of students everywhere.
Now grown, Mary Beth Tinker is touring the country to show students they can have just as big an impact as she did. On Thursday, that tour brought her…

2013-03-08
Civil rights activist Mary Beth Tinker to speak today at 2 2013-03-07
Downtown Bellingham Partnership to host Twitter seminar with WWU's Jennifer Keller

The Downtown Bellingham Partnership is hosting a free Twitter seminar at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, at the offices of DIS Corp. at 1315 Cornwall Ave.

The seminar is meant for registered members of the partnership. It will feature Jennifer Keller, an assistant professor of journalism at…

2013-02-20
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