By Amy Tenowich
M.A., Broadcast Journalism, 2007

Print Journalism: It’s a Latin dance, but it draws a diverse mix of folks all wearing the glow of having kissed their woes adios. It reminds us that by working with partners who seem totally different from ourselves, and may even speak another language, we can create something beautiful while having fun.

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By Melanie Herschorn
M.A. Candidate, Broadcast Journalism, 2008

Print Journalism: Los Angeles restaurant Wok on Fire’s health inspection grades have bounced between “C” and “B” this year, and the place was once ordered closed. Despite that inspection record, the Chinese food and sushi restaurant does not lack patrons.

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By Chantal Allan
M.A., Broadcast Journalism, 2007

Broadcast Journalism: Investors in Minnesota's first ethanol plants discover that money doesn't grow on trees. It grows on corn.

By Lindsay Watts, M.A., Broadcast Journalism, 2007
Heather Downie, M.A., Print Journalism, 2007
Jessica Roberts, M.A., Print Journalism, 2007
Amy Tenowich, M.A., Broadcast Journalism, 2007
and Rocio Zamora, M.A., Print Journalism, 2007

Online Journalism: Spiritual and religious tourism is the fastest growing travel segment, according to the World Travel Organization. About 300 million seekers hit the road every year, but many aren't taking your typical trip to the Holy Land. They're tapping the spiritual aspects of places such as Mt. Shasta and Sedona, Ariz.

Lindsay Watts and other News21 fellows produced a video piece. Heather Downie produced a radio report on new-age tourism in Sedona.

By Syantani Chatterjee
M.A. Candidate, Broadcast Journalism, 2008

Print Journalism: It is the super glue binding doctors, grocers, engineers, artists and professors. For Indian Americans, it is the potion dissolving the compartmentalized bubbles where South Asian immigrants often find themselves.

It can be summed up in one word and a multitude of possibilities -- Bollywood.

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By Thomas Kelley
M.A., Print Journalism, 2006

Broadcast Journalism: With the advent of digital downloads, C.D. burning and iPods, will the classic vinyl record become extinct?

By Noah Barron
M.A. Candidate, Print Journalism, 2008

Online Journalism: On the first Friday of every month, hackers meet to discuss how to modify their computers and explore the networks that connect them. On the first Saturdays, scooterists ride their motorized Shetland ponies in a mad pack, in search of traffic-free roads, the destination irrelevant. Members of these groups get something from each other’s company that they say they can’t get anywhere else. It’s a sense of community, a curiosity about their machines, and an understanding that doing something that doesn’t make much sense to outsiders is what draws them together.

Barron also produced a short video segment on the South Bay Scooter Club.

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By Laura Sanders
Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular and Computational Biology, 2008

Print Journalism: Biofilms are everywhere, and now, thanks to Bill Costerton, everyone knows it.

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By Amy Tenowich
M.A. Candidate, Broadcast Journalism, 2008

Broadcast Journalism: Just blocks from Skid Row is a series of kennels for dogs that have reached the end of the line. Lori Weise, the so-called "Dog Lady,” rescues dogs from kennels and dogs that belong to the homeless in hopes that even the most aggressive animals will find homes.

By Chiara Canzi
M.A. Candidate, Print Journalism, 2008

Print Journalism: I think I am in love with a robot. His name is Mojo. He lives in San Pedro. Me, a 5-foot-10, Italian-born human in love with a pile of metal? After all, that is how we humans still think of them. But they are so much more.

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