[Click above for video of the class discussion with Matt Welch.]Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine.
From 2006 to 2007, Welch served as assistant editorial pages editor at the Los Angeles Times, shaping and writing editorials, and overseeing the section's web operations. From 2002 to 2006, Welch worked at Reason as an associate editor and media columnist. From 2002 to 2004, he also wrote a regular "Letter from California" column for Canada's National Post newspaper and contributed to the Online Journalism Review; WorkingForChange.com (for whom he covered Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign); and the now-defunct Los Angeles tech/biz magazine Zone News.
Welch’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, LA Weekly, ESPN.com, Salon.com, Wired, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Star of Beirut, and dozens of other publications. Before 1998, Welch lived for eight years in Central Europe, where he co-founded the region's first post-communist English-language newspaper, Prognosis, worked as UPI's Slovakia correspondent and managed the Budapest Business Journal. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Emmanuelle.
Assignment for Matt Welch conference: Please craft a response that engages a theme that you identify in two or more of Welch's writings listed below. Use Welch's articles as a starting point for a discussion or analysis of the theme, and feel free to bring in other sources and/or respond in whatever medium you like.
If you're doing a conventional response paper, it should be 750-1,000 words long and use specific examples and citations from his work.
Also, generate three questions that you want to ask Welch during our videoconference.
The responses and questions are due to me via email by 5pm on Tuesday, September 30.
Be Afraid of President McCain <http://www.reason.com/news/show/118937.html>
The frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick /Reason/ - April 2007
Free Sam Zell! <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-welch16nov16,0,7463136.story?coll=la-opinion-center>
Why 'media activists' should be mocked for trying to block the buying and selling of newspapers and television stations /Los Angeles Times Online/ - November 16, 2007
Blogworld <http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/blog-welch.asp>
The New Amateur Journalists Weigh in
/Columbia Journalism Review/ - September/October 2003
Woe is Media <http://www.reason.com/0212/cr.mw.woe.shtml>
It's Time to Save Journalism From its Saviors /Reason/ - December, 2002
The Cuban Senators <http://espn.go.com/page2/wash/s/2002/0311/1349361.html>
Julio Becquer and the Last-Place Cuban-Flavored Teams of 1950s D.C.
/ESPN.com/ - March 11, 2002
New Jersey's Teen Matt Drudge
<http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/Dahiller.htm>
Sergio Bichao's Underground Web Newspaper has his High School Reeling /Online Journalism Review/ - March 12, 2001
My Time in the DEN of Iniquity
<http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/DEN.htm>
Report on 6 Weird Weeks Spent at the Infamously Mismanaged Digital Entertainment Network
/Online Journalism Review/ - May 25, 2000
Cookie Monster of Putnam Pit
<http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1998/10/15feature.html>
Why One Beverly Hills Journalist Is Fighting an Entire Tennessee Town...And Defining Internet Sunshine Laws Along the Way
/Salon/ - October 15, 1998
From 2006 to 2007, Welch served as assistant editorial pages editor at the Los Angeles Times, shaping and writing editorials, and overseeing the section's web operations. From 2002 to 2006, Welch worked at Reason as an associate editor and media columnist. From 2002 to 2004, he also wrote a regular "Letter from California" column for Canada's National Post newspaper and contributed to the Online Journalism Review; WorkingForChange.com (for whom he covered Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign); and the now-defunct Los Angeles tech/biz magazine Zone News.
Welch’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, LA Weekly, ESPN.com, Salon.com, Wired, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Star of Beirut, and dozens of other publications. Before 1998, Welch lived for eight years in Central Europe, where he co-founded the region's first post-communist English-language newspaper, Prognosis, worked as UPI's Slovakia correspondent and managed the Budapest Business Journal. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Emmanuelle.
Assignment for Matt Welch conference: Please craft a response that engages a theme that you identify in two or more of Welch's writings listed below. Use Welch's articles as a starting point for a discussion or analysis of the theme, and feel free to bring in other sources and/or respond in whatever medium you like.
If you're doing a conventional response paper, it should be 750-1,000 words long and use specific examples and citations from his work.
Also, generate three questions that you want to ask Welch during our videoconference.
The responses and questions are due to me via email by 5pm on Tuesday, September 30.
Be Afraid of President McCain <http://www.reason.com/news/show/118937.html>
The frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick /Reason/ - April 2007
Free Sam Zell! <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-welch16nov16,0,7463136.story?coll=la-opinion-center>
Why 'media activists' should be mocked for trying to block the buying and selling of newspapers and television stations /Los Angeles Times Online/ - November 16, 2007
Blogworld <http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/blog-welch.asp>
The New Amateur Journalists Weigh in
/Columbia Journalism Review/ - September/October 2003
Woe is Media <http://www.reason.com/0212/cr.mw.woe.shtml>
It's Time to Save Journalism From its Saviors /Reason/ - December, 2002
The Cuban Senators <http://espn.go.com/page2/wash/s/2002/0311/1349361.html>
Julio Becquer and the Last-Place Cuban-Flavored Teams of 1950s D.C.
/ESPN.com/ - March 11, 2002
New Jersey's Teen Matt Drudge
<http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/Dahiller.htm>
Sergio Bichao's Underground Web Newspaper has his High School Reeling /Online Journalism Review/ - March 12, 2001
My Time in the DEN of Iniquity
<http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/DEN.htm>
Report on 6 Weird Weeks Spent at the Infamously Mismanaged Digital Entertainment Network
/Online Journalism Review/ - May 25, 2000
Cookie Monster of Putnam Pit
<http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1998/10/15feature.html>
Why One Beverly Hills Journalist Is Fighting an Entire Tennessee Town...And Defining Internet Sunshine Laws Along the Way
/Salon/ - October 15, 1998
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