The American Observer is an online magazine produced by the American University School of Communication’s graduate journalism program. The Observer publishes new editions on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the fall of 2010 along with other live content for special events.
Graduate journalism students and American Observer staff teamed up with reporters at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a professional non-profit journalism center in the School of Communication at American University, to cover Saturday’s “One Nation Working Together” rally.
In addition to general event coverage, the team will focus on gathering personal stories of rally attendees affected by the economic downturn. These individual narratives will contribute to the latest America: What Went Wrong project, authored by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, Donald Barlett and James Steele, in close collaboration with project manager, Kat Aaron and other at the Workshop. As stated on their website, such individual narratives will help tell the story of what is happening to working people today as Barlett and Steele investigate the economic deterioration in America over the past four decades.
The book – along with an interactive companion website by the Workshop that will feature stories like the ones we’re helping collect Saturday – will offer “the first comprehensive look at various economic, labor and other government data from the 1970s through 2010…that have impacted so many Americans.”
The following American Observer and Investigative Reporting Workshop staff contributed to the production of the One Nation rally coverage:
Jeremiah Patterson, Kate Musselwhite, Annie Stephens, Karina Stenquist, IRW Project Manager Kat Aaron, IRW Reporter Meera Pal, and Professor/IRW Senior Editor Lynne Perri.
Might be going out there too- if not, I’ll be reading. I hope Investigative Workshop pays you for work- it should b good