Meg Moritz
Meg Moritz is a professor and UNESCO Chair at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Recent Posts by Meg Moritz
Four Lessons on School Shootings
December 4, 2009 by Meg MoritzDark, cold, grey, brooding Helsinki. This was the backdrop for Violence in the Networked Society, an international conference hosted by University of Helsinki’s Communication Research Center on Nov. 6 and 7, 2009. It was a particularly poignant setting, because in 2007 and again in 2008 Finland was the site of school shootings that together left 18 students murdered. In this highly literate and socially conscious society, the sense of communal grief was profound — a national trauma.
Covering Columbine
April 6, 2009 by Meg MoritzThis documentary, available online and on DVD, examines the impact of the news coverage of the Columbine High School shootings.
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