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Rick Bragg speaks at lecture event

Ben Jackson February 11, 2015

Pulitzer-Prize winning author and University of Alabama professor Rick Bragg told stories to a crowded gathering of friends and fans at a lecture event hosted by Alpine Living magazine Wednesday evening....

Bragg to speak on travel

Bragg to speak on travel

Ben Jackson February 9, 2015

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and UA professor Rick Bragg will share his stories of his writing and travels from Miami to the Middle East at a lecture hosted by Alpine Living. The lecture will serve as...

Writers Hall of Fame to induct Rick Bragg

Writers Hall of Fame to induct Rick Bragg

Alessandra Delrose January 19, 2015

The Alabama Writers Hall of Fame will honor University of Alabama professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg, along with 11 other local writers, into its first class of inductees on June 8.Last...

Scott leaves courageous legacy

Kyle Simpson January 7, 2015

I woke up on Sunday, and to my dismay, my Twitter timeline was filled with the news of longtime ESPN personality Stuart Scott’s untimely death. Like many others, I grew up watching Stuart Scott narrate...

Student covers hockey for Russian publication

Student covers hockey for Russian publication

Laura Testino November 19, 2014

Nate Proctor left the United States for Russia fluent in the language of the National Hockey League, but not fluent in Russian. Proctor is spending his fall semester studying abroad in Russia, taking...

CW must broaden its news reporting

Carolyn Duke October 19, 2014

After asking the question, “Do you read The Crimson White?” The responses I have received include laughter, “The what?,” “I don’t think it’s worth my time,” “I get my news from social...

Parrott returns to teach after 8-year newspaper career

Parrott returns to teach after 8-year newspaper career

Alana Norris October 13, 2014

Scott Parrott insists a lot of his success is due to luck. Parrott came to The University of Alabama for a master’s degree in journalism after working as a reporter for eight years. He said he thought...

Graduate tear-gassed in Ferguson, Missouri

Graduate tear-gassed in Ferguson, Missouri

Samuel Yang August 26, 2014

When Alan Blinder, a 2011 UA graduate now working at the Atlanta bureau of The New York Times, first met Jennifer Greer, then chair of the journalism department, he was a pre-med student.“I’m supposed...

Finding a passion on your own

Letter to the Editor March 21, 2012

When a former student first asked me to be a part of her graduate community journalism project at the University of Alabama, I was thrilled. Not only because of her steadily emerging academic success,...

Departments aid affected professors, students

Amanda Sams May 12, 2011

After an EF-4 tornado struck Tuscaloosa on April 27 and displaced many students, professors, faculty and staff members at the University of Alabama, one of the foremost concerns was checking in with employees,...