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Grovetown High School | The Augusta Chronicle

...Grovetown High School Two high school students have started working in the first edition of The Augusta Chronicle's High School Reporters Academy. Several Columbia County students recently were disciplined for incidents involving drugs, alcohol, weapons and...

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The importance of reading

...Augusta in branding the new U. Gov. Nathan Deal was even under the impression that was being done. But an Augusta television reporter recently showed the governor Azziz's stationery ? which never mentioned the word Augusta.State officials seem not to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-05-17/importance-reading
Walk of Shame

Opens Friday, Sep 20, 2013 Synopsis: An news reporter (Elizabeth Banks) has to do a walk of shame across inner city Los Angeles in time for an important inverview in this comedy from writer/director Steven Brill. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Gillian Jacobs, Willie Garson Movie Details Buy Tickets Movie Review

The Company You Keep

Now Playing Synopsis: Working from a script by Lem Dobbs, Robert Redford directs and stars in The Company You Keep as Jim Grant, a former member of the Weather Underground who has been hiding out under an assumed identity ever since members of the group participated in a bank heist that ended in a guard's death. When a young reporter figures out the truth, Grant must stay one step ahead of the FBI, who want to bring charges against him for the decades-old murder. The Company You Keep screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi Cast: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Man of Steel

Opens Friday, Jun 14, 2013 Synopsis: Superman flies back onto the big screen in this Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production directed by Zack Snyder (Watchmen), produced by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight), and featuring a screenplay by David Goyer (Blade, The Dark Knight). Born on the alien planet of Krypton, Kal-El is sent by his parents to live on planet Earth, where he is given the name Clark by kindly farmer Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) and his wife, Martha (Diane Lane), who raise him as if he were their own son. As a young boy,Clark displays incredible superpowers that instill him with a profound sense of personal responsibility. Later, the amiable Clark (Henry Cavill) becomes a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper "The Daily Planet," and strikes up a friendship with crackerjack journalist Lois Lane (Amy Adams). But when his new world is attacked by a force that humans are powerless to defend themselves against, Clark assumes the identity of Superman and fights to protect the entire human race. Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Boardwalk Empire) co-stars as General Zod and Laurence Fishburne steps into the role of "Daily Planet" editor-in-chief Perry White. Russell Crowe and Christopher Meloni co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Disconnect

Now Playing Synopsis: Murderball co-director Henry Alex Rubin explores the destructive potential of the Internet in this ensemble drama starring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, and Alexander Skarsgård. His marriage dissolving before his very eyes, a former marine (Skarsgård) ruins his credit by gambling online as his wife (Paula Patton) strikes up an intimate relationship on a popular social-networking site. When identity theft puts their lives savings at risk, the couple track down the man (Michael Nyqvist) they believe is responsible for the crime. Meanwhile, an introverted teenage goth (Jonah Bobo) becomes the victim of a humiliating prank when his two biggest tormentors pose as the girl he likes, and trick him into exposing his true identity online. When the prank leads to tragedy, the young victim's mother (Davis) is overwhelmed by grief as her husband (Bateman) explodes with rage. Later, an ambitious TV reporter's quest to expose an online prostitution racket has unexpected repercussions for the frightened young man at the center of the growing controversy. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Is 'Obamian' now a word?

...obtaining phone records) is to intimidate people who talk to reporters. This was an accident waiting to become a nuclear event...transparent attempt to punish truth-tellers and to intimidate reporters and their sources into silence.It's alarming that the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-05-16/obamian-now-word
A more inconvenient truth

...Jodi Arias and Amanda Knox murder cases. One Philadelphia reporter even shot a photograph of the barren media section at the...Indeed, reports indicate that at least one pro-choice reporter changed his views on abortion while covering the Gosnell trial...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-05-14/more-inconvenient-tru
I just don't believe Obama

...federal government. On Monday we learned of the Department of Justice seized the phone records of numerous Associated Press reporters and editors. The actions of the Department of Justice represent an egregious and unprecedented attack on journalists' freedom...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2013-05-16/i-just-dont-believe-obam
U.S Open tennis coverage to move to cable in 2015

...decrease, with all the platforms that we have digitally," ESPN President John Skipper said during a conference call with reporters. "This sort of old canard that there's something to be lost by going from broadcast to cable, I would submit, has it...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-05-16/us-open-tennis-cover