Journalism Department

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Admin assistant by day, rock star by night 2012-08-14
Student helps 'steward the American experience' 2012-08-08
How coal trains could choke NW's economic engines

A new study of rail transportation problems associated with the transport of millions of tons of coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to proposed export terminals in the Pacific Northwest was released today in Montana, citing "a huge, huge increase in volume that we'…

2012-07-17
Kirkland native honored as outstanding graduate in journalism

Gina Cole, a 2007 graduate of Lake Washington High School, was recently honored as the 2012 Outstanding Graduate in Journalism at Western Washington University. One student from each academic major is so honored each year.

2012-06-28
WWU alum's honeymoon nightmare in latest Chicken Soup book

A Western Washington University alumnus whose honeymoon began at gunpoint has published a story on it in the latest book in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Caleb Jennings Breakey, who graduated WWU in 2007, and his new bride were pulled over by Bellingham police and handcuffed…

2012-06-26
Hydraulic Fracturing In The Marcellus Shale

A supply glut and price collapse in natural gas is slowing down the hydraulic fracturing boom in some areas. How market forces, state regulations and health and environmental concerns are shaping development of the Marcellus Shale.

2012-05-16
WWU journalists win regional awards 2012-04-02
Coal port advocates narrow the range of environmental impacts

Gateway Pacific Terminals filed several hundred pages of documents late Monday with Whatcom County planners, setting in motion the formal processes that could result in the nation's largest coal-exporting terminal on a 1,200-acre deepwater site at Cherry Point north of Bellingham.

2012-03-21
Nielsen's study published in Newspaper Research Journal 2012-03-16
Off The Press

Mr. Hune was a very insightful teacher. In my ninth-grade yearbook he wrote “to a future newspaper reporter.”
How did he know?
I do not believe Mr. Hune, who taught the newspaper class at my junior high school, realized I would later venture into an enjoyable career…

2012-03-07
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