Sentences with phrase «as journalists attempting»

He was polite, friendly and always enormously helpful to anyone needing help — such as journalists attempting to write about string theory.

Not exact matches

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

The press (including «citizen journalists» and survivor blog writers) have been pulling at the loose threads here and there, and it looks like the entire muffler may unravel as different people and organizations attempt to deny the interconnections, or minimize underlying doctrines that have given shape to their whole gridlock of power.

They were shooting rubber bullets into crowds of people, launching tear gas down quiet neighborhood streets and into homes, and arresting journalists attempting to cover the disgrace as it was unfolding.

John had previously attempted a play, we both have unfinished novels on the go - probably like many journalists - but this struck us as a rich mine to tap in terms of material.

Any sentence imposed by the court should not be seen as an attempt by judges to muzzle journalists because freedom must go with exercising responsibility which was lacking in the case of Montie FM 3.

In an attempt to calm rising newsroom tensions at The Los Angeles Times, the paper is expected to name Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist and former editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun - Times, as its next editor in chief today, according to company officials.

All entreaties to make the two speak with journalists failed as they both parried various attempts to make them disclose the reason for their meeting with the President.

Having been intensely focused on the consequences of the botched escape attempt, it appeared, all morning - the look on his face as a journalist bravely attempted to change the subject was revealing.

His clear unease as hordes of sceptical journalists bombarded him with questions belied the simple fact that his attempt to unseat Brown was spiralling rapidly out of control.

This documentary from Matthew Heineman goes behind enemy lines in Syria to follow the citizen journalist collective «Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently» as they attempt to expose the human rights violations by ISIS and fight the terrorist group's misinformation campaigns in their home country.

As an idealistic college professor (Robert Redford) attempts to ignite the spark of genius he sees in a lazy, privileged student, two of his former pupils fight for their lives behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and a slick congressman (Tom Cruise) attempts to sell a skeptical journalist (Meryl Streep) on his new plans for the ongoing War on Terror.

The film follows journalist Bahari (played by Gael García Bernal) as he attempts to report on the monumental 2009 presidential election in Iran before he was falsely accused of being a spy.

Set in the 1970s, The Post follows journalists from The Washington Post as they attempt to publish the Pentagon Papers, a classified Department of Defense study of the United States government's involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

Gomes employed a team of journalists to devise a screenplay that derives from real life experiences of the country's struggling lower classes, all of which are narrated by Scheherazade, the memorable protagonist in the original material as he attempts to distract a tyrannical king.

Adopting the narrative structure of Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), Haynes follows British journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), now working for a paper in New York circa 1984 (Orwellian cues abound), as he attempts to discover the current whereabouts of glam - rock superstar Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers).

This week, it's «City of Ghosts,» providing an apt bookend chronicling the heroic efforts of citizen journalists in Raqqa, Syria, as they attempt to document the carnage that the Islamic State has wreaked on their once - cosmopolitan city.

For reasons that I can discern only as an attempt to justify his own existence, said journalist is making the shifter out to be the worst thing since outboard fuel tanks, or possibly Felicity's short hair cut.

There were great designers such as Louis Bleriot, who flew across the English Channel, the first man to do so, with a foot so badly burned that he had to be lifted in and out of his seat; Thomas Scott Baldwin, «Cap» t Tom,» inventor of the flexible parachute and incomparable showman, who almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, who after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador took to aviation and within months became the preeminent flyer in the world; Harriet Quimby, an actress and journalist who cajoled flying lessons from her employer to become the first woman to receive a pilot's license and then the first to cross the English Channel; and Glenn Curtiss's most famous flyer, Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the finest aviator the world has ever seen, a man who boasted so many «firsts,» «bests,» and «never before dones» that his exploits would beggar credibility had they not all been documented by eyewitnesses.

In a report published Thursday by the BBC Trust, the network's journalists were criticized for devoting too much airtime (as in, any airtime) to unqualified people with «marginal views» about non-contentious issues in a misguided attempt to provide editorial balance.

The IPCC has already run a series of seminars for journalists in an attempt to clarify what it sees as important issues, while PR firm Havas is advising the UN Foundation on how best to explain the report's findings.

[23] A 2009 article by journalist Luke Harding for The Guardian reporting on RT's advertising campaign described the network as «unashamedly pro-Vladimir Putin» [24] and part of the Kremlin's attempt to create a «post-Soviet global propaganda empire.»

Today, events like the recent tasering and arrest of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer during his attempts to question John Kerry at a campus event are covered from every angle by potential witnesses and citizen journalists, as these YouTube videos show.

The appeals arises from attempts by Le Groupe Polygone Éditeurs Inc. to identify as part of their defence the confidential source used by Globe investigative journalist, Daniel Leblanc, in his stories in covering the scandal.