User:Raduchon

Richie Duchon is an award winning multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles.

Richie is the senior news editor of Neon Tommy, an online news site covering Southern California. He was a USC Annenberg Graduate Fellow in jounralism and is currently a Dean Scholar finishing an M.A. in online journalism.

Most recently Richie won a Society of Professional Journalists national award for his production work on Annenberg Radio News.

He has experience working internationally as a reporter for the Cape Argus, a daily newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa with about 359,000 readers.

Before coming to USC, Richie was a host, reporter and producer at Michigan Radio, a public radio station serving 450,000 listeners in southern Michigan. There he won an Edward R. Murrow Award for best news documentary, to Hope: Overcoming the Detroit Riot.

This is my personal /Sandbox on Wikipedia.

Nichols Arboretum Entry Analysis
The Nichols Arboretum entry is not very strong in the areas of quality, references, and discussion. It lacks information about the history of the natural space. While it is affiliated with the University of Michigan, it fails to place the arboretum in the context of Ann Arbor culture and open space. The entry is vague about time references. It reads, "In recent summers, the Arb has been the site of dramatic performances of Shakespearean plays...," but fails to note a specific year when these performances began or if they still take place. It lacks a map that places the arb in a geographical context. And it fails to note the most important event to ever take place in the arb, my marriage of course. To its credit, the entry about an arboretum, a collection of trees, does have a comprehensive list of the offerings.

The entry lacks references that are necessary to back up historical or geographical information.

As for neutrality, the entry uses some subjective language. It says students "flock" to the arb, rather than visit, come to, etc. It also skews to heavily toward describing the arb's use by students, disregarding usage by the rest of the community.

There is no discussion on this entry. Period.