The latest round of political endorsements has started. Madonna, George Clooney, Jay-Z, and Beyonce endorsed President Obama, Rick Santorum endorsed Missouri's Todd Akin for Senate, Jack Nicklaus and Scott Baio from Happy Days endorsed Mitt Romney, and Clint Eastwood sort of endorsed Romney. In the next few weeks, newspapers around...

For most adults, this is the first Facebook presidential election. This means that many of us and our Facebook friends are posting politically oriented content. To some extent, I'm guilty of it in that I share links to articles that I've written, many of which are politically oriented with a...

This week, the War on Teachers continues.

Teachers in Chicago, the third-largest school district in the country with 350,000 students, went on strike last week for the first time in 25 years after negotiators failed to reach an agreement. Among the disputed issues were performance evaluations based...

Sure, the upcoming election will be influenced by the debates, television commercials and efforts to get out the vote. However, a major factor will be whether the GOP can convince the American people that their candidates and their ideas are mainstream. Although the GOP was able to muzzle their craziest...

As the NFL season approaches, many fans will have questions about things like injuries, rookie contributions, and roster cuts. However, one question remains unanswered about the NFL and its media coverage.

Why are there no female play-by-play announcers for NFL games?

At this point,...

Scientists, science geeks, and the media were jumping for joy when the $2.5 billion Mars Rover Curiosity successfully landed earlier this month after an eight month journey. They continue to be excited at the photos that are being beamed back to earth. This week, the Rover beamed back the first...

Evidently, Ann Curry wasn't enough to spice up the Today Show.

Curry was forced out as co-host of the Today Show and was replaced by Savannah Guthrie, who made her official debut today. While the Today Show's ratings declined during Curry's tenure, and Guthrie should...

We all know the stories of Olympic heroes such as Jim Thorpe, Carl Lewis, Rafer Johnson, Mary Lou Retton and Mark Spitz -- great athletes who took advantage of their opportunity to perform on the world stage and win gold medals.

However, for every story of Olympic glory there...

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...