Larry Atkins

Temple University student Ian Van Kuyk, junior film and media arts major, was arrested by Philadelphia police last month after he took photos of a routine police traffic stop in front of his apartment building for his photojournalism course. Asserting his First Amendment right to take photos of...

It's not just those in their teens and early 20s who are returning to college campuses; it's also their parents and even grandparents. According to an October 2008 article in the New York Times, over 10 percent of graduate liberal arts students at Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, and the University...

Last week, a false rumor that CNN's Piers Morgan had been suspended as a talk show host due to his alleged role in phone hacking as an editor for a UK tabloid was spread repeatedly by journalists through Twitter for a brief time.

A couple of...

Just like video killed the radio star, it looks as though Kindle and Nook are killing the bookstore. Booklovers had hoped for a storybook ending for Borders, but the tragic final chapter has come.

Last month, Borders Group, Inc., the nation's second largest bookstore chain...

The debt ceiling negotiations debacle should serve as a wake up call to seniors and seniors-to-be. It's clear that the Tea Party has positioned the Republican Party in favor of corporations and wealthy individuals and against the interests of seniors.

We need to establish a counterpart to the Tea Party....

Who said that soccer couldn't be exciting? Things looked bleak, but Abby Wambach's last second goal against Brazil saved the day and helped to send the United States into the semifinals of the World Cup. Unfortunately, the Americans couldn't finish the deal, losing to Japan in the Championship Game...

YouTube is no longer just for smoking toddlers, cats playing piano, skateboarding dogs and "Don't Tase Me, Bro!"

In the past few years, YouTube and Google videos has become a helpful teaching tool.

I have taught Journalism at Temple University and Journalism and Sports Ethics at Arcadia University as an...

March Madness is upon us, and it's going to be totally awesome, baybee!

New stars will be born and more than one shining moment will occur. One bounce of the ball, one slip and fall, and one shot can make a legend or create a scapegoat.

The NCAA Tournament needs more Davids and fewer Goliaths.

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament selection committee needs to give more of a break to the little guys when deciding which teams make the 68-team field. During the last several years, the at-large selections have been dominated by the...

If Horace Greeley were giving career advice today, he would probably say something like, "Go website, young dude, go web."

In today's changing high tech job market, young people and college students should be developing their own professional websites and blogs while they are in college and...

During the next few weeks, millions of college students will be going back to campus for the start of a new school year. However, if Bill Gates is right, this longstanding tradition of education on college campuses will be obsolete soon.

Earlier this month, billionaire...

Pat Toomey a Moderate? Yeah, Right.

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Republican Candidate Pat Toomey has been flooding the TV airwaves this summer with commercials touting himself as a mainstream moderate and hammering Democratic Candidate Joe Sestak as being too Liberal and radical for Pennsylvania. Toomey's pulling an...

It was announced this week that 16 year old pop star Justin Bieber will be writing a memoir about his life and will star in a 3D movie about himself.

Enjoy it while you can, kid.

It's too soon to tell whether he will be a...

Time Magazine took some heat for its cover this week, which featured a photo of a young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were chopped off as a result of a Taliban decree because she had fled her abusive in-laws. Critics alleged that the cover photo was too graphic and...

Celebrity Journalism is like crack. Americans are addicted to it. We need to hear the Mel Gibson tapes and see Lindsay Lohan report to jail. So why do newspapers, magazines, and television keep feeding our habit?

As Charles Taylor stated in a 1998 article...