Associate Professor Christopher Harper, JOUR, co-director of Temple’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab, questions the motives of Julian Assange, Wikileaks’ spokesperson and editor in chief. “I just see the actions that are taking place right now as making him not a credible source,” Harper said. “He has an agenda. He’s not doing it out of the goodness of his heart, for the greater good of the world, to embarrass world leaders and to show what’s going on. I think his motives are highly suspect.”

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The next president of ABC News may be forced to make some major decisions about the direction and future of World News Tonight.

According to a Los Angeles Times article, the network news audience is shrinking and aging, which means they need to find ways to attract a new, younger audience in order to survive.

“My students do not watch the evening news,” said Associate Professor Christopher Harper, JOUR, a former foreign correspondent and investigative producer for ABC News . “The evening news has become the province of old guys like me.”

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The new owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com are still working out a contract with the company’s manual workers. Assistant Professor Susan Jacobson, JOUR, says they need to balance their economic situation with the legacy of the newspapers.

“The reality is, you have people who have worked for the Daily News and the Inquirer for many, many years and to just casually let them go is kind of cruel and heartless,” she says.

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