Professor Sara-Ellen Amster, Ph.D., is instructor and lead faculty member for the journalism program at National University. She has worked as a daily newspaper reporter in four states, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize honoring her series called, "Inside Delaware State Hospital.
The 3rd Annual Feria de Salud: Por Tu Familia Health Fair was held at Kimball Park in National City. The event was held to help a community become more health conscious and bring awareness to diabetes, an increasingly prevalent disease in the local Latino community.
According to a James Irvine Foundation survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, one-third of California's current high school students will drop out. An additional third of students will receive their diplomas unprepared for college or the workplace.
City Attorney Michael Aguirre lambasted The Union-Tribune during a recent address to National University journalism students, urging them not to purchase the "mediocre" publication that he said had brought journalistic integrity to an all-time low. His visit Feb.
He lives in a motor home, dropped out of high school and has not held a real job in four years. Candidate for welfare? No - Eric Bidwell is the youngest candidate running for mayor of San Diego at age 25. Bidwell is hoping you will vote for him and "Vote Revolution" in the June 3 primary election.
The San Diego offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation sit prominently on Aero Drive, but few people know the agency is located on the busy road. With the building's series of metal detectors, pass-codes and tinted windows, even fewer know what is going on inside.
Alexa Capeloto, Enterprise Editor for The San Diego Union-Tribune, gave a presentation at National University on multimedia and journalism.
The Internet has rapidly changed the world - and the nature of journalism along with it. "The Internet is so useful that without it, the Cunnningham story wouldn't have been possible," argued Dean Calbreath, one of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Cunningham story.