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• Select A meat story, well done: how the Omaha World-Herald inspected a tough local industry

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  A meat story, well done: how the Omaha World-Herald inspected a tough local industry

  Author:Laurie KelliherFrom:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 42, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  January-February 20041,875 words Article The cattle pens in the south Omaha stockyards are empty. The Livestock Exchange Building is being converted into apartments. These days Omaha calls to mind Warren Buffet as often as it does meatpacking, but the industry...
• Select The I.N.S. test: what's the price of not fighting for access?

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  The I.N.S. test: what's the price of not fighting for access?

  Author:Laurie KelliherFrom:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  November-December 2003873 words Article When Chief Immigration Judge Michael Creppy declared all "special interest" deportation proceedings closed on September 21, 2001, the press got its first taste of access restriction in the post-9/11 era. Granted,...
• Select Low power, high intensity: building communities on the FM dial

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  Low power, high intensity: building communities on the FM dial

  Author:Laurie KelliherFrom:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  September-October 20031,558 words Article In the increasingly corporate world of radio, low-power FM isn't about how far your signal reaches but how near. These are neighborhood stations with 100-watt signals that travel single-digit miles. They are run by...
• Select Fox Watch: MoveOn.org members take bias-watching into their living rooms

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  Fox Watch: MoveOn.org members take bias-watching into their living rooms

  Author:Laurie KelliherFrom:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 42, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  March-April 2004544 words Article Every week, 700 people who don't like Fox News tune in to Fox News. Some are retirees with e-mail addresses like "greatest-gramma." Others are busy with their day jobs as piano teachers and special education tutors....
• Select Ties that bind: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc spent eleven years in the Bronx chronicling one extended family's struggles with urban poverty. She felt right at home

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  Ties that bind: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc spent eleven years in the Bronx chronicling one extended family's struggles with urban poverty. She felt right at home

  Author:Laurie KelliherFrom:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  May-June 20042,717 words Article Adrian Nicole LeBlanc was two years out of Leominster High School when the suicides began. It was February 1984. Fourteen-year-old Jeffrey Bernier shot himself after school with his father's .357 Colt revolver. By March...
• Select Suburban myth: Elizabeth Llorente's stories puncture our preconceptions of the suburbs. And she's getting others to take a closer look in their own backyards

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  Suburban myth: Elizabeth Llorente's stories puncture our preconceptions of the suburbs. And she's getting others to take a closer look in their own backyards

  Author:Laurie KelliherFrom:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  July-August 20041,961 words Article Elizabeth Llorente is like a lot of suburban moms--a little bit over-protective of her eleven-and thirteen-year-olds; living on the cheaper end of a high-price-tag town for the school system; balancing a job with her...