journalists

Media war: ISIS insights from former Mideast correspondent

By Rebecca Phillips, University Communications PULLMAN, Wash. – The beheading of American freelance journalist James Foley. YouTube videos flaunting a Jordanian pilot’s fiery death. Mass beheadings and other barbaric images tweeted and posted on Facebook. Week-by-week the Islamic State, known as ISIS, ratchets up atrocity and serves it to news outlets around the globe.

Chinese journalists to spend day touring WSU campus

PULLMAN — With the potential to reach more than 300 million people in China, members of the Chinese media are coming to Pullman to take home a taste of Washington agriculture and Washington State University.Sixteen members of the Chinese media will visit the Pullman campus on Monday, June 19, as part of a week-long tour […]

Trio of journalists to honor slain newsman Daniel Pearl

The life and career of slain “Wall Street Journal” reporter Daniel Pearl will be honored at the April 16 Edward R. Murrow Symposium at Washington State University. Pearl, the newspaper’s South Asia bureau chief, was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan, last year while working on a story related to terrorism. “Daniel Pearl’s career and […]