On the Road is
a home for the stories behind the stories. Our members report on politics, poverty, the European Union, dalliances in the royal family — you name it, we cover it. Still, after we have filed, there is often so much more to say: some times about the story, other times about how we got the story. And then there is the whole unique experience of working as a foreign correspondent in London.
This is where On the Road steps in. It’s a space where our members can write the story behind the story, discuss journalistic issues, and flag some of the ideas that drive reportage.
Save The Journalist! Hollywood’s Newest Endangered Species
by Ellin Stein
Now it’s really time to worry. Hollywood has started treating newspaper journalists with the same kind of anxious concern once reserved for polar bears, presenting them (us) as unpredictable but appealing creatures in serious danger of vanishing from the earth.
You need look no further than the current release The Soloist (a sort of Shine with a homeless African-American Unstable Brilliant Musician instead of a middle-class Australian-Jewish UBM) ...
The view from Boris Johnson’s office
by Elizabeth Renzetti
What’s the first thing you’d expect to see upon entering Boris Johnson’s office? A soapbox, of course. This one fortunately remained on the shelf as the mayor entertained nearly a dozen AACL members in his office on the eighth floor of City Hall (it might just boast the best view in London – Tower Bridge is visible right outside the window).
Mr. Johnson gripped a baseball he’d recently been given by the ...