From Owl Magazine: Owl Magazine, the student magazine of Harford Community College in Bel Air, won national honors in the David L. Apple Awards Competition sponsored by the National College Media Association. The Fall/Winter 2016 issue placed third in the category of Best Magazine Cover. John Parks, a Mass Communications major, designed the cover. The […]
Harford County Board of Education Student Journalism Freed of Expression and Controversial Issues Policies
From Harford County Public Schools: October 10, 2016 The Board of Education of Harford County met for an open business meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Board Room of the A. A. Roberty Building and took the following actions and received the following presentations: Board Committee Reports and Comments Superintendent Comments Public Comment Old Business: […]
Sherrie Johnson Wins NAACP Award; Harford County Public Information Officer Wins Award for Service
From Harford County government: Harford County Government Public Information Officer Sherrie Johnson received the John H. Murphy Award for excellence in journalism. Johnson was honored Saturday during the 2013 NAACP Freedom Fighter Awards Breakfast. Johnson and several others received the awards for service and leadership in the community. The NAACP Baltimore Branch recognized the award […]
Harford Community College’s Owl Magazine Receives National Recognition
From Harford Community College: Owl Magazine, formally The Harford Owl newspaper, has been a driving source of information for Harford Community College students, faculty, employees, and the community for a number of years. Recently, Owl Magazine was awarded National Honors via the Apple Awards from the College Media Association in NYC for work done in […]
“You Can’t Get The Ink Out Of Our Blood” – Baltimore Sun Takes On The Dagger
A couple of weeks ago, a few of us sat down with Baltimore Sun Today Editor Andrew Ratner for about an hour-and-a-half. A Harford County resident himself, Ratner had been following The Dagger for some time and was interested in writing a story about us. That story was published today in The Sun: Local Web […]
Examining The Dwindling Options For Getting Local News In Baltimore
With the Baltimore Examiner on the way out, where are we supposed to get our news now? the b? The Examiner may have been an object of derision among people looking for more than shallow sips of news, and from people adverse to a paper with a right-wing slant, but it brought some important things […]
Voyeurism and Journalism Make For Great Educational Entertainment – Mark
The Dagger marks its first anniversary this week. A year that has seen the birth of the future of news and entertainment reporting in this area. No, The Dagger is not the first site of its kind. The Huffington Post comes to mind, as well as others, but it is the first site based in Harford […]
New American Journalism Or Flat Out Poison? – Joshua
The idea was a grand one. It’s rare these days to be in on a grand idea, an idea that for a short time is so free of the daily round of human nonsense that you are almost short of breath. The idea was that a crew of mostly ex-newspaper writers could remake American Journalism […]
