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Students and faculty to present at Scholars Week Showcase May 19
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Western alumnus wounded after explosion in Libya

Michael Christopher Brown, a photojournalist and Western alumnus, was injured by fire from a rocket-propelled grenade today in Libya, where he was working as a freelance photographer.

Photographer injured in Libya grew up in Skagit County

Michael Christopher Brown, one of four news photographers wounded in the shelling of Misrata, Libya, Wednesday, is a Washington state native inspired to take up a career in photojournalism by a class he took at Western Washington University, according to National Geographic, one of the agencies…

Truth vs. Embellishment

All of us are suckers for stories too good to be true, be it Washington confessing to chopping down the cherry tree or Bernie Madoff promising investment returns no one else could match.

But in memoir-writing in particular, there seems to be a determination that accuracy shouldn't…

Western students impress, win handful of SPJ journalism awards
Nielsen has article published on mass communication scholarship
Ferndale plant has record of air-pollution notices

ConocoPhillips’ refinery near Ferndale has been repeatedly fined by regional air-pollution inspectors and last year drew two citations from state workplace-safety regulators who said a fire there was caused by faulty maintenance.

Refinery workers’ failure to lubricate a motor sparked…

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