Local Journalist
Introduction

You will write a review of what the local press reported about Ben Linder.

Definition A local journalist writes for a journal, a newspaper of other publication with an audience that is concentrated in one area of the country.
Questions Analyze the articles for information you determine to be important for the world to know.
  1. Compare what is written by the international press with that of the national, and local. What different perspecives are represented?
  2. Who are the different reading audiences of the articles? What difference does that make?
Resources

Ben's Legacy
Power to the people was Ben Linder 's goal as he paced beside a stream in
the remote Nicaraguan village of San Jose de Bocay on the morning of April
28, 1987.... The Portland Oregonian, 1992

Grief Lives on Five Years After Couple's Son is Killed-- Partents Contend Death in Nicaragua of UW Grad was Hired Hit by Contras...The Seattle Times , 1992

No `regular ordinary person'
The San Diego Union-Tribune, 1987