UMaine News

UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was quoted in a Maine Media column on downeast.com about the growth of political blogs in Maine. Fried said openly partisan political blogs are a return to the time when newspapers were openly partisan, which many were until the early 20th century.

Slate columnist Jack Shafer uses research by UMaine journalism professor to counter opinions offered by former ABC journalist Ted Koppel in a Sunday Washington Post column on the current state of television journalism.  In that piece, Koppel writes that network news divisions were “loss leader(s) that permitted NBC, CBS and ABC to justify the enormous […]

President Obama has appointed 1971 UMaine graduate Pamela White ambassador to The Ghana.  White is an Auburn native who earned a UMaine journalism degree before embarking on a career in public service that began with work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon.  She joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1978, serving in […]

Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty provided comment for a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the impact and relevance of political parties in Maine politics.  The story is based in part on post-election comments from Eliot Cutler, the independent candidate who lost Maine’s gubernatorial election by about one percent of the vote.

Portland-based WGME has a report on UMaine research into the extraction of a starter molecule of antiflu drug Tamiflu. Chemistry professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole were interviewed for the report. Canada-based Digital Journal also ran a story about the findings.

Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty co-authored an opinion column published by The State, a South Carolina newspaper. In that column and a similar essay that The Guardian newspaper in Great Britain asked him to write, Farley criticizes the Democratic party establishment for its failure to support the South Carolina Senate candidacy of […]